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Free or freeze EU innovation

January 18, 2016

Guest post by Garlich Von Essen, Secretary General of the European Seed Association (ESA) 2016. Like any New Year, this one as well starts with high expectations and many solemn declarations. Most of them are rather personal and ambitious ones, like quitting smoking or running the next Brussels Marathon. By contrast, it seems that Europe… » read more

Posted by Kasia Jasik

Innovation & Enterprise, Science & Policymaking, Trade & Industry, Agriculture & Food

, agriculture, EFSA, European Commission, food, innovation, NBTs, precaution, science

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EU States Opt-Out of Innovation

October 12, 2015

Guest blog post by Karen Batra, Director of Food and Agriculture Communications at the Biotechnology Industry Organization (BIO). A number of international media outlets are reporting on EU member states choosing to opt-out of GMO cultivation. Using a law signed in March giving countries the right to seek exclusion from any approval request for GMO… » read more

Posted by Kasia Jasik

Science & Policymaking, Trade & Industry, Agriculture & Food, Agriculture & Food

, agriculture, biotech, choice, farmers, GMO, imports, science, trade

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New Plan: Legal Certainty

September 15, 2015

Guest post by Nathalie Moll, Secretary General of EuropaBio, the European Association for Bioindustries. The Commission has told MEPs and ministers that it has no ‘plan B’ if the proposal to enable national bans on the ‘use’ of GMOs is rejected. It is the whole food and feed chain’s hope that this means that should… » read more

Posted by Kasia Jasik

Member States, Science & Policymaking, Trade & Industry, Agriculture & Food

, European Commission, GMO, imports, MEPs, science, trade

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Where Is This Soya?

July 28, 2015

Have any of you ever heard of the Danube Soya Initiative…? That’s what I thought. It is Europe’s most significant (and only) attempt to boost conventional non-GM soya production in countries along the banks of the Danube River. Why do we need to boost the production you ask? Because European farmers and our animals are… » read more

Posted by Kasia Jasik

Science & Policymaking, Trade & Industry, Agriculture & Food, Agriculture & Food

, agriculture, choice, European Commission, farmers, GMO, NonGMO, soya bean, trade

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Could Brussels ever ban the banana?

May 28, 2015

If I were to ask you the question, ‘What is a banana?’ I very much doubt many of you would earnestly answer ‘Well, to me, a banana is a symbol of political freedom in Europe’. I even doubt any of you would even respond that a banana is a luxury food. Today, in Western Europe… » read more

Posted by Kasia Jasik

Trade & Industry, Agriculture & Food

, biotech, consumer, trade

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Mr Maize liberated from ‘the Terminal’…for now

May 5, 2015

“It’s just like that Tom Hanks film!” I cried – half rejoicing, half rattled. The breaking news last month that the European Commission had rubber-stamped seventeen GM maize, cotton, soybean and oil-seed rape (and even two GM carnations) import approvals, after months and in-some-cases years of delays, left me momentarily giddy. Because yes, some of… » read more

Posted by Kasia Jasik

Science & Policymaking, Trade & Industry, Agriculture & Food, Agriculture & Food

, biotech, European Commission, GMO, livestock, trade

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GM feed imports into the EU – Czech point of view

April 29, 2015

Guest post by Zuzana Stratilová from the Ministry of Agriculture of the Czech Republic in cooperation with Biotrin. Genetically modified organisms (GMOs) and their use, especially in agriculture and food industry, remain a controversial topic in the EU. Opinions of different member states are highly polarized. On the one hand, there are member states which… » read more

Posted by Kasia Jasik

Member States, Science & Policymaking, Trade & Industry, Agriculture & Food

, agriculture, biotech, Czech Republic, European Commission, GMO, trade

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Import animal feed or cultivate Germany’s forests?

April 9, 2015

Guest blog post by Gerd Spelsberg from i-bio – Information Biosciences Let’s have no more soya bean imports, but instead cultivate our own feed supplies in Germany. To achieve this we must ask where the extra agricultural land necessary will come from? European agriculture depends on the import of large amounts of soya animal feed.… » read more

Posted by Kasia Jasik

German, Member States, Trade & Industry, Agriculture & Food, Agriculture & Food, Uncategorized

, Germany, soya bean, trade

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What’s happening with GM?

March 26, 2015

Guest blog post by Jim Orson from the National Institute of Agricultural Botany (NIAB). I made a big mistake at the end of a recent blog when I mentioned that we could soon expect to cultivate GM glyphosate tolerant oilseed rape. This optimism chimed with recent reports stating that we could soon grow waves of… » read more

Posted by Kasia Jasik

Science & Policymaking, Trade & Industry, Agriculture & Food

, European Commission, GMO, trade, UK

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How Greek elections hid Europe’s GM time bomb

March 20, 2015

On the 5th of February, 2015, spokespeople for the European cereal, vegetable oil and animal feed importers, labelled the EU’s “missing GM authorisations” a ticking bomb. But let’s face it; few people heard that news at breakfast time. The still fresh Greek election result, attempts to renegotiate Greek debt obligations, and the declining value of… » read more

Posted by Kasia Jasik

Greek, Trade & Industry, Agriculture & Food

, agriculture, European Commission, GMO, Greece, soybean, trade

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