The government of Peru suspended the production of transgenic crops in the country. The Peruvian Minister of the Environment, Antonio Brack, introduced legislation regulating the generation of genetically modified organisms, quoting risks to health and to biodiversity.

Minister Brack announced that rural producers and organizations of civil society have the right to enforce their manifestations in regards to risks of GMOs. "The country must take a position of utmost caution over genetically modified organisms," he said.

The Peruvian Minister of the Environment is also assessing the position of the 35,000 Peruvian organic producers who criticize GMO production and caution that their crops would be threatened by GM contamination.

Europe's Funding of Worldwide Activism

An Inconvinient Truth (Image):
Nature Biotechnology: Volume 25, Number 12, Dec 2007

EMBO Reports: Contents: Volume 9, Number S1

Bioentrepreneur: From Bench to Boardroom
.....for an update on the latest events focusing on life science entrepreneurship around the world.

How the EU can Fund your Company

Alfalfa Benifits from Medicago truncatula:
 The RCT1 Gene M.truncatula Confers Broad-spectrum Resistance to Anthracnose in Alfalfa

Consortium for Functional Glycomics

Charles's Fantasy Farming Won't Feed Africa's Poor

A Conversation with Nina V. Fedroff , Advocate for Science Diplomacy

Scientists Target Super Cassava

Who Will China Feed?

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Vitamin C and Cancer Revisited

Moving Ahead with an International Human Epigenome Project

Shrewd Survival Strategy ( Tuberculosis )

World Bank Biofuels Report Finally Released :
The combination of higher energy prices and related increases in fertilizer prices and transport costs, and dollar weakness caused food prices to rise by about 35-40 percentage points from January 2002 until June 2008.