But five million Brazilian farmers are now locked in a legal feud with US biotech giant Monsanto, the GM soy seed manufacturer, and are refusing to pay crop royalties. In the mid-1990s Monsanto ...

Originally, I was focused on genetically modified organisms (GMOs) and seed privatization, which have been strongly resisted by indigenous and campesino activists. Talking with activists and various ...

With its mid-July acquisition of WestBred, of Butte, Montana, St. Louis–based Monsanto jumped back into the genetically modified (GM) wheat business, anticipating commercial wheat crops within a ...

In a statement, Monsanto said Friday's verdict “conflicts ... soybeans and cotton — Roundup is designed to work with genetically modified seeds that resist the weedkiller’s deadly effect.

However, the validation was performed for the detection of P35S in the Roundup Ready soybean (Monsanto) genetically modified line only. Therefore, our finding suggests that even when fully ...

Dubbed the Farmer Assurance Provision, section 735 of the resolution would seem to place the commercial concerns of Monsanto, the world’s largest producer of genetically modified crops and seeds ...

Egyptian activists join in a global day of action against multinational agricultural biotechnology corporation Monsanto. The giant corporation produces and distributes genetically modified (GM ...

The provision protects genetically modified seeds from litigation in the face of health risks and has thus been dubbed the "Monsanto Protection Act" by activists who oppose the biotech giant.

Monsanto may be one of the biggest producers and sellers of genetically modified organisms (GMOs) in the world (see Fig 1), but by no means does it have the lion’s share of the global market. It has, ...

Similar lawsuits have also been filed in Idaho and Washington state. Monsanto has said none of the genetically modified wheat entered the commercial market. The company contends no legal liability ...