Mestre (VE) – February 2, 2025
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Let’s stop the new GMOs! at risk even organic farms!
Let’s ask the organic certification bodies to do their job and stop certifying organic farms where they are experimenting with new GMOs!
Verona mobilization against new GMOs
December 15, 2024 – Verona
No to GMO trials on organic fields
Did you know that two organic farms will also host field trials of genetically modified organisms using New Genomic Techniques?
Let’s make municipalities and regions free of the new GMOs.
Help us get the resolution for new GMO-free municipalities and regions on the ballot! Download the draft and ask your local government to take sides.
New GMOs. The methods of identification
The results already achieved are enough to disprove the theories of Big Ag and the European Commission that deregulation of new GMOs is necessary.
May 14, 2024 – FROM YESTERDAY, ITALY IS NO LONGER A GMO-FREE COUNTRY.
Italy, following up on notification B/IT/24/01 with yesterday’s planting of “Ris8imo” at the “Radice Fossati” farm in Mezzana Bigli, in the province of Pavia, has lost its world leadership as a GMO-free country.
Week of mobilization against new GMOs.
From April 20 to 28, participate in the week of mobilization!
Peasant agriculture is under attack.
The ongoing attempt by Italy and the European Union to deregulate new GMOs may soon result in a wave of genetically modified organisms in our fields and on our plates.
The challenge of new GMOs – a look at what’s behind our food
Seed Fair – Piazza Santo Spirito – Florence
Sunday, February 18
New GMOs: 42 Italian organizations call on MEPs to vote against them
The 42 farmers’ and organic farming, environmental, consumer and civil society organizations united in the GMO-Free Italy Coalition are launching an appeal to all Italian MEPs who will be called on Feb. 7 to vote on the proposal to deregulate GMOs obtained by New Genomic Techniques (NGT)
New GMOs, European Parliament approves deregulation
The 42 organizations of the GMO-Free Italy Coalition (including WWF, Lipu, Legambiente, Greenpeace, Federbio, Assobio, Navdanya International) have expressed deep regret over the European Parliament’s vote on deregulation, judging the elimination of risk assessment on new GMOs to be serious and against the founding elements of the European pact.
The situation on the NGT front
Strong concern about the developments in the proposal submitted by the EU Commission on NGT deregulation.
European proposals on seed legislation and new GMOs published
As expected, the proposal on new GMOs exempts them from the risk assessment process and the traceability and labeling requirement currently in place for all GMOs, whether old or new generation.
Dangerous Games, the ongoing reforms on seed legislation and NBT (TEA).
In anticipation of the EU Commssion’s proposal on seed reform, 38 civil society organizations from 20 European countries have signed a letter to the Commission in which they stress some key points to keep in mind. Meanwhile, in Italy, an amendment to the drought decree opens the door to open-field testing of NBTs.
