Global report on challenges faced by seed sector launched

Focuses on need to stop seed laws that are preventing farmers from saving and exchanging their indigenous varieties  

Disclosure-shy industry

Pharma and biotech firms are lobbying hard to block disclosure of origin of genetic material used in inventions, but they also raise thorny issues

Global Biodiversity Framework: What happened in Nairobi?

The preparatory meeting on biodiversity ends with little consensus  

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First GBFF council meeting takes baby steps for biodiversity

Operational matters discussed, but nothing on resource mobilisation

Marine protected areas are underfunded. Experts discuss ways to address the funding gap

A well-managed and sufficiently funded MPA can restore good health to vulnerable ecosystems, help achieve global biodiversity conservation goals

Biological Diversity (Amendment) Bill, 2022 passed

It has to be ensured that these amendments help India meet the targets set up under the Kunming-Montreal Global Biodiversity Framework

Over 100 countries sign Kunming Declaration on biodiversity conservation

It calls upon the parties to “mainstream” biodiversity protection in decision-making 

Global Coalition for Biodiversity launched on World Wildlife Day

The coalition will be made up of zoos, aquariums, national parks, museums, botanical gardens from around the world

Coming up: New set of targets to protect the natural world

This year, the Convention on Biological Diversity is set to identify a new ‘Global Biodiversity Framework’ of targets for the coming …

Talks on global plan to protect biodiversity begin in Nairobi

The meet is the first step towards adopting a new global framework on biodiversity post 2020

To kill a mocking pest

With pesticides no longer a viable means of controlling pests in most cases, the search for alternatives like bio-pesticides has proved that …

Dictating terms

The US forces its agenda upon other member states at the fifth review conference of the bioweapons convention

Nagoya Protocol: inter-governmental committee to hold a third meeting

When and where the negotiating parties will meet is yet to be decided

‘Grains not stored properly in FCI godown, rotting food creating pest hazard’

NGT orders probe into biological hazard at Punjab storage, forms joint panel

Breeding insects to eat crop pests

How scientists contained a deadly tomato pest that travelled across the world

Though tomato is the primary host, Tuta absoluta attacks other vegetable crops as well. If not properly managed, the leaf-miner can cause 100 per …

Why the world is worried about this new biotechnology

In the Convention on Biological Diversity, a moratorium on biotechnology, like genetically engineered mosquitoes, takes centre stage

The benefits of organic farming far outweigh the costs

HAY SOREE , economist and director of Yardi and Sore, a New Delhi-based company involved in organic farming and marketing, spoke to Down To …

Will India ratify the Nagoya-Kuala Lumpur Protocol?

 Protocol needs serious inter-ministerial deliberations, says MoEF official

Green rider for GDP

World is moving towards natural capital as a measure of economic growth

Decision on capacity building to handle GMOs tops biosafety meet agenda

Countries have reported they lack appropriate legal, institutional and technical capacity for decision making on genetically modified organisms

World hasn’t met a single Aichi biodiversity target: Leaked UN Report

While there has been progress, it is insufficient, according to the document

New US rules on food imports

It has been nine months since the US began its search for chemical and biological weapons of mass destruction in Iraq. Although nothing was found,…

The Avon lady lifts our biodiversity

Loopholes in the Biological Diversity Act being used to export India’s genetic material