Peru: How to organise a moratorium on GMOs
Two of the activists behind the GMO moratorium explain, in an interview with LAB, how Peru managed to become the latest Latin American country to achieve a moratorium on GMOs. In Spanish
Peru: a 10-year ban on GMOs
In December 2011 Peru became the latest country in Latin America to ban genetically modified organisms. But can it be sustained?
Brazil – the GMO momentum
The area covered by genetically modified crops has been growing rapidly but the anti-GM campaign is far from defeated.
Costa Rica’s struggle to keep Monsanto out
On the 25th May, more than 450 cities in the world marched against Monsanto, and San Jose was no exception.
British supermarkets, GMO soya and birth defects
The UK's six largest supermarkets have quietly decided to allow more GM soya into the food chain, despite horrific evidence of the impact of the GM soya boom in Argentina.
PARAGUAY: RURAL LEADER MURDERED
As Paraguay's first election campaign since the overthrow of Fernando Lugo gets under way, an opponent of soya monoculture is murdered
MEXICO: GMO AVALANCHE UNDER WAY
A new report from GRAIN charts the massive GMO invasion under way across the region, spearheaded by operations in Mexico
ARGENTINA: two convicted over use of agro-chemicals
A provincial court in Argentina has found two people guilty of illegally spraying agro-chemicals close to a residential area in Cordoba.
Paraguay Lifts Restrictions on Transgenic Corn
The Franco government has approved the cultivation of genetically modified corn and cotton, but a new movement is seeking to oppose the measure.
ARGENTINA: MONSANTO IN THE DOCK
Monsanto and the government's 'soyalisation' programme threaten the health of thousands and have contributed to escalating violence, including four murders, according to respected Argentine human rights campaigners.