Issue 373 - March 2007

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Events, Gatherings, Campaigns, Opportunities, Resources

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By supressing the action of a gene, cottonseeds could become a safe and nutritious protein source for 500 million people.

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A shared biotech commons could enable us to analyze the options for social, environmental, and economic interventions independent of corporate control.

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The Pentagon's Chemical and Biological Defense Program of 2003 endorsed a "first-use" strike of chemical and biological weapons (CBW) in war, thus violating the law.

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The current biodefense expansion has the potential to seriously threaten public safety, international security, and the vitality of open biomedical research, and to drain scarce resources from key public health programs.

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The grain required to make enough ethanol to fill an SUV tank is enough to feed a person for a whole year.

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At the World Social Forum (WSF) in Nairobi, Kenya, African civil society rejected the Rockefeller and Bill & Melinda Gates Foundations' $150 million Alliance for a Green Revolution in Africa -- AGRA. The Green Revolution consisted of converting cropland to "high-yield" seeds which need to be purchased each season, and which require intensive fertilizer and pesticide use.

The creators of AGRA promise to bring benefits to the African continent's 180 million impoverished farmers who, they claim, have until now been bypassed by the first Green Revolution.

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Biodemocracy means democratic control by the global grassroots over the policies and institutions that impact our health and environment.

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