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Monsanto is best-known for its controversial use of genetically-modified organisms, and less well-known for being involved in the story ...

Unless we are farmers, we tend to take seeds for granted. But civilisation is built on seeds: it was the rise of large-scale agricultu...

As Africa continues to develop rapidly, Western countries and companies are increasingly interested in bringing it into existing internat...

The battle to bring GM food to Europe has been fiercely fought for years.  Most assumed it would be continue to rage for many more. Which m...

Recently we wrote about how pharmaceutical companies use " evergreening " to extend their control over drugs as the patents ex...

The acrimonious debate and serious lobbying that developed around California's Proposition 37 , which would have required the labelli...

When the history of modern Brazil comes to be written, a special place will be reserved for the soybean, the powerful farmers that grow i...

And right on cue , like the catastrophe of the old comedy, comes some fresh news about Monsanto and its gene patents: Monsanto Co., facing ...

I'm conscious that I've written a lot of negative posts about genetically-modified organisms on this blog. That might lead readers t...

As I've noted before , I often find Umair Haque's posts a little, er, opaque. But either he's getting clearer (possible) or my ...

I and others (notably Roy Schestowitz ) have noted the interesting similarities between Microsoft and Monsanto at various levels; but a majo...

Good to see that I'm not a lone voice crying in the wilderness: The continuing patenting of seeds, conventional plant varieties and ani...

Following my recent post about Bill Gates helping to push genetically-modified and patented seeds towards needy African farmers, Roy Schest...

It's becoming increasingly evident that Bill Gates' philanthropy is not simple and disinterested, but has woven into it a complex ag...

Here's a brilliant, must-read feature exposing some of the hidden agendas of the Green Revolution and the dark side of the Gates Founda...

When a company is unwilling to stand in the bright illuminating light of openness, you know it's trying to keep something in the shadow...

For millennia there has been a seeds commons - a shared store of seeds produced by farmers from this year's crop for the following year...