PARAGUAY: AGRIBUSINESS AND BIOTECH COMPANIES WIN OUT
The impeachment of President Lugo, rushed through Congress, was has clearly benefited big landowners and the powerful biotechnology companies. LAB reports.
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.
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: 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.
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
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
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.
Uruguay – agribusiness is wiping out family farming
Large-scale commercial farming, particularly of soya, is imposing GMOs and destroying rural livelihoods.
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?