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Comunicado de prensa – Planes para liberar en España una mosca modificada genéticamente

da | Lug 28, 2015 | agrobiodiversità, ECLLD, legislazione sementiera, Seminare il cambiamento

COMUNICADO DE PRENSA

27 de julio de 2015

  Planes para liberar en España una mosca modificada genéticamente

 

  · Hasta 1.825.000 moscas con ADN mezcla de organismos marítimos, bacterias, virus y otros insectos podrían ser liberadas cerca de Tarragona

 · Una empresa británica ha hecho una solicitud que, de aprobarse, supondría la primera liberación de animales modificados genéticamente en la UE

 · Científicos, agricultores y ecologistas advierten de que los ensayos ponen en riesgo la biodiversidad y la producción olivarera de la región mediterránea

 · Nadie puede predecir la estabilidad genética o el comportamiento en el ecosistema de estos insectos, que podrían dispersarse sin control alguno

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Comunicato stampa – Oxitec progetta il lancio di mosche GM in Spagna

da | Lug 27, 2015 | agrobiodiversità, ECLLD, legislazione sementiera, Seminare il cambiamento

Media release

UK company plans to release genetically engineered flies in Spain

Trial puts biodiversity and olive production in the Mediterranean region at risk

27 July 2015 / The UK company Oxitec is planning to release genetically engineered olive flies into the environment in Spain (Catalonia). The insects are genetically manipulated in such a way that female descendants will die as larvae feeding inside the olives, while the next generations of male flies will survive. Oxitec plans to release up to 5000 of these flies per week in Spain, near the town of Tarragona. The field trial expected to last for one year will cover a netted area of 1000m2. However, if the flies escape they can spread without any control. Olive flies are regarded as a species that spreads rapidly in a suitable habitat. Over time their offspring might be distributed throughout the Mediterranean region and all the locations where native populations occur. A broad coalition of mostly representative organisations from Mediterranean countries such France, Greece, Italy, Portugal and Spain are demanding that any release of these flies should be banned completely.

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Mappatura coltivazioni transgeniche in Spagna a cura di Greenpeace

da | Lug 25, 2015 | agrobiodiversità, ECLLD, legislazione sementiera, Seminare il cambiamento

Greenpeace acaba de publicar el primer mapa estatal de cultivos transgénicos comerciales en España. No está todo lo completo que nos gustaría, pues muchas CCAA siguen sin contestar a sus obligaciones legales, pero tras 17 años de cultivo ya era hora.

 

Aquí un blogpost donde lo explico de forma más amena y aquí el comunicado de prensa.

 

Esperamos que sea un nuevo revulsivo en un contexto estatal y europeo que ofrece muchas oportunidades para conseguir una Europa Libre de Transgénicos. En nuestras manos está invertir los colores de este mapa.

Organic Research Centre avvia la sperimantazione di commercializzazione di popolazioni di frumento

da | Lug 21, 2015 | ECLLD, innovazione, legislazione sementiera, Pratiche agroecologiche, Ricerca azione

Launch of ORC Wakelyns Population at National Organic Combinable Crops (NOCC15)

The Organic Research Centre has pioneered an evolutionary breeding programme to produce a hugely diverse population of wheat suited to organic and low-input farming systems. This year, for the first time, ORC is marketing it as ORC Wakelyns Population.

Populations are genetically diverse. All plants are genetically distinct while all of those in standard pureline varieties are almost identical. This means that populations are better able to adapt to unpredictable environments, including weather and pest/disease pressures.

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