Lords Committee Launches Inquiry into GM Insects
-Science and Technology Committee to investigate the potential of GM insect technologies to control disease and protect crops and livestock- Could genetically modified insects be used to control the spread of human disease? Would farmers…
PRESS RELEASE: Farmers gather in parliament
Deborah Meaden to open APPG event "Farmers in Westminster", bringing 15 UK farmers to showcase the best of agroecological farming.
Environmental Audit Committee Report on Transatlantic Trade and Investment Partnership
The Environmental Audit Committee has published a report on the environmental impacts of the Transatlantic Trade and Investment Partnership (TTIP)
Sustainable low input livestock systems (FAO Report Launch)
Meeting Aim and Outline 1. The FAO will be making that case that global food availability does not have to come at the expense of the environment, and that both targets are achievable through agroecology and concentrate-free,…
Commons Science and Technology Committee Report – GMOs and the Precautionary Principle
Commons Science and Technology Committee launches report on genetically modified organisms and regulation.
Science and Technology Committee hear evidence on future of Food and Environment Research Agency (FERA)
This session is to allow the Committee to scrutinise the future of the Food and Environment Research Agency (FERA). Inquiry: Future of the Food and Environment Research Agency (FERA) Witnesses Wednesday 25 February, Committee Room…
PRESS RELEASE – A Beef about the future? – FAO report on low-imput livestock systems
The All Party Parliamentary Group on Agroecology will receive an advanced briefing on a forthcoming FAO report on low-input and sustainable livestock systems.
APPG Meeting (March 4th, 2pm) – The science of genetically engineered foods
Why Genetically Engineered Foods Are Scientifically Unacceptable and Uniquely Unsustainable – and How Their Extraordinary Risks Have Been Systematically Misrepresented American lawyer Steven Drunker will launch his new book, Altered Genes, Twisted Truth: How the Venture…
Next APPG Meeting (25th February, 2pm): Low-input and sustainable livestock systems
The next APPG meeting will hear new research from the UN Food and Agriculture Organization on low-input and sustainable livestock systems.