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Overview of the Issue
Addressing the Problem
Technical Articles
News Reports
Commentary
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Overview of the Issue
Addressing the Problem
9 Mexican States found to be GM contaminated, From: Indigenous and farming communities in
Oaxaca, Puebla, Chihuahua, Veracruz, CECCAM, CENAMI, ETC Group, CASIFOP, UNOSJO, AJAGI,
Press Release, October 9, 2003
- Letter to Dr. Jacques Diouf,
Director-General, Food and Agriculture Organization of the United
Nations, from civil society organizations in the World Social Forum, February 6, 2002
- Letter to Dr. Ian Johnson,
Chairperson, Consultative Group on International Agricultural
Research, The World Bank, from civil society organizations
in the World Social Forum, February 6, 2002
- Letter to Dr. M.S. Swaminathan, Chairperson - Genetic Resources
Policy Committee CGIAR, from Pat Mooney, February 11, 2002
Technical Articles
News Reports
- Kernels of Truth, East Bay Express, May 29, 2002
- 'Worst ever' GM crop invasion, By Charles Clover,
Environment Editor in The Hague Daily Telegraph, April 19, 2002
- Corn Study Spurs Debate over Corporate Meddling in Academia,
Paul Elias, AP Biotech Writer, Thursday, April 18, 2002
- Journal Editors Disavow Article on Biotech Corn, Washington Post, April
4, 2002
- Fight Rages Over Bioengineered Corn, Associated Press, April 4, 2002
- Scientist claims vendetta over GM research; Biotech industry 'fighting back
against maize attack', The Herald (Glasgow), April 5, 2002
- Preserving the integrity of Indian corn, Indian Country Today, USA,
February 8, 2002
- Safeguarding Sacred Corn, Indian Country Today, USA,
February 9, 2002
- Neither Early Warning nor Early Listening - What the CGIAR is
Not Doing: -- Silent Science, ETC News Release, February 27, 2002
- Genetic Modification Taints Corn in Mexico, by Carol Kaesuk Yoon,
New York Times, October 2, 2001
- Transgenic DNA Discovered in Native Mexican Corn, According to a
New Study by UC Berkeley Researchers, Press Release, U. of California,
Berkeley, November 28, 2001
- Serious Genetic Contamination Revealed in Mexican Maize,
Greenpeace News, September 27, 2001
Commentary
- Corn Row, posted on AgBioView 11/18/02, from Science, Vol. 298, No.
5596, pp. 1169 Nov 6, 2002
- Maize, Genes, and Peer Review, Center for Science, Policy and Outcomes,
posted October 31, 2002
- GM Fall-out from Mexico to Zambia: The Great Containment, The Year
of Playing Dangerously, ETC Group (Action Group on Erosion,
Technology and Concentration), October 25, 2002
- Hot Seat May Cool for Berkeley Prof: Mexican scientists
reportedly confirm his findings of engineered corn in maize,
The San Francisco Chronicle, August 26, 2002
- Conflicts Around a Study of Mexican Crops, posted on Ag BioView,
June 27, 2002
- SPECIAL INVESTIGATION: The great Mexican maize scandal,
New Scientist, June 15, 2002
- Still More on the Mexican GM Maize Scandal:
Conquering Nature! ...and Sidestepping the Debate over Biotech
and Biodiversity, News Release, The Action Group on Erosion, Technology and Concentration
(formerly RAFI), April 4, 2002
- Nature Editorial Note, Posted on AgBioView, April 5, 2002
- Who's Afraid of Horizontal Gene Transfer? -- The Maize Gene War,
I-SIS Press Release, March 6, 2002
- Has GM Corn 'Invaded' Mexico?,
Science Magazine, Volume 295, Number 5560,
pp. 1617-1619, March 1, 2002
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CIMMYT (Internationsl Maize and Wheat Improvement Center) Statements on the Discovery of Transgenic Maize in
Mexican Farm Fields
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Further Tests at CIMMYT Find No Presence of Promoter
Associated with Transgenes in Mexican Landraces in Gene Bank, February
7, 2002
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No Credible Scientific Evidence is Presented to Support Claims that
Transgenic DNA was Introgressed into Traditional Maize Landraces in
Oaxaca, Mexico, editorial by Paul Christou (on behalf of the Editorial Board),
Transgenic Research, 11: iii–v, 2002.
- "Contaminated Corn and Tainted Tortillas: Genetic Pollution in
Mexico's Centre of Maize Diversity", News Release, The Action Group
on Erosion, Technology and Concentration (formerly RAFI), January
23, 2002
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