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List of GE Crops in Canada as of January 2008
List of the 12 genetically engineered crops and foods approved by the Canadian Food Inspection Agency(CFIA) and Health Canada. Includes name of crop, company producing it, trait being genetically altered, whether or not commercially available to farmers, and details about registration, commercialization, and whether or not these crops are actually being grown.
No to Bovine Growth Hormone: A Story of Resistance from Canada
Written by Lucy Sharratt, Coordinator, Canadian Biotechnology Action Network.
Excerpted from "Redesigning Life? The Worldwide Challenge to Genetic Engineering", edited by Brian Tokar (London: Zed Books, 2001). 19 pages.
What Genetically Engineered (GE) Foods Are on the Market in Canada?
Table showing GE crops and processed food ingredients that are legally produced in Canada, and/or imported. Current as of July 2008, (2 pages). Produced by the Canadian Biotechnology Action Network (CBAN).
Multimedia Publication: Towards food sovereignty: Reclaiming autonomous food systems
Society for a GE-Free BC
The Society for a G.E. Free B.C. is a social justice coalition of groups and individuals across BC/Yukon working for local, community based agriculture, and against genetic engineering of plants and trees. GE Free BC envisions a food-sovereign Canada where no genetically engineered life forms are created, patented, approved, bought, sold or traded.
Canadian Biotechnology Action Network (CBAN)
Coalition of Canadian organizations based in Ottawa, dedicated to collaborative campaigning for food sovereignty and environmental justice. "The mission of CBAN is to promote food sovereignty and democratic decision-making on science and technology issues in order to protect the integrity of the environment, health, food, and the livelihoods of people in Canada and around the world by facilitating, informing and organizing civil society action, researching, and providing information to government for policy development".
A Declaration of Seed Sovereignty: A Living Document for New Mexico
Local government resolution supporting seed sovereignty. Santa Fe County Board of Commissioners, Santa Fe, New Mexico (USA), Jan 2007
The Real Board of Directors: The Construction of Biotechnology Policy in Canada, 1980-2002
Book (92 pages) by Devlin Kuyek, 2002. Published by The Ram's Horn and available in pdf format.
Stolen Seeds: The Privatization of Canada's Agricultural Biodiversity
Report by Devlin Kuyek. Published by The Ram's Horn, 2004 (44 pages). Available in English and French at www.ramshorn.bc.ca (French title is Main basse sur les semences)
Primer on Food Sovereignty
Report (48 pages). People's Food Sovereignty Network, Asia-Pacific & Pesticide Action Network (PAN) Asia and the Pacific, Nov 2004. Also includes Framework for National Programme on Food Sovereignty, and Draft People's Convention on Food Sovereignty.
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