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History tells that the most common reason participants abandon important but frustrating multi-party negotiations is when they believe they can better achieve their aims by abandoning, and therefore delegitimising, whatever agreement is eventually reached. And for maximum effect delegitimisation has to occur in public.Monsanto and Syngenta have so far won the media battle, but the […]

Conceived in 2002 by the World Bank and the UN’s Food and Agriculture Organization, the IAASTD began work under Bob Watson’s command in 2004 with the aim of improving life, health and prosperity for millions of poor farmers. The haggling will be fierce, however, because the draft strays into divisive economic, ideological, legal and political

Robert Watson, chair of environmental science and science director of the Tyndall Centre at the University of East Anglia in Norwich, U.K., was cited for his outstanding contributions to promoting international scientific cooperation in scientific research, communication, and training, and his work on environmental and sustainable development. Watson also holds the position of chief scientific

Claiming that the final report of the IAASTD was “unbalanced” and not sufficiently supportive of the use of genetic engineering in agriculture, two major agro-chemical and biotech companies, Monsanto and Syngenta, have withdrawn from the process. It appears that they did not like the results and findings of the approximately 4000 scientsts involved and prefer

Modern agricultural practices have failed to alleviate the food situation despite increasing production and it is time to look back to traditional and natural methods of cultivation, a new United Nations report says. “Modern agricultural practices have exhausted land and water resources, squelched diversity and left poor people vulnerable to high food prices, even though

Modern agricultural practices have exhausted land and water resources, squelched diversity and left poor people vulnerable to high food prices, even though they are also highly productive, according to a report announced by the United Nations scientific agency today. “Business as usual is no longer an option,” states the International Assessment of Agricultural Science and

History tells that the most common reason participants abandon important but frustrating multi-party negotiations is when they believe they can better achieve their aims by abandoning, and therefore delegitimising, whatever agreement is eventually reached. And for maximum effect delegitimisation has to occur in public.Monsanto and Syngenta have so far won the media battle, but the

Conceived in 2002 by the World Bank and the UN’s Food and Agriculture Organization, the IAASTD began work under Bob Watson’s command in 2004 with the aim of improving life, health and prosperity for millions of poor farmers. The haggling will be fierce, however, because the draft strays into divisive economic, ideological, legal and political

Robert Watson, chair of environmental science and science director of the Tyndall Centre at the University of East Anglia in Norwich, U.K., was cited for his outstanding contributions to promoting international scientific cooperation in scientific research, communication, and training, and his work on environmental and sustainable development. Watson also holds the position of chief scientific

Claiming that the final report of the IAASTD was “unbalanced” and not sufficiently supportive of the use of genetic engineering in agriculture, two major agro-chemical and biotech companies, Monsanto and Syngenta, have withdrawn from the process. It appears that they did not like the results and findings of the approximately 4000 scientsts involved and prefer