Financial Terrorism
The Great Agricultural Hoax
How ‘they’ run Pakistan
How ‘they’ run the World
How ‘they’ kill the World
Ground Realities – Environmental & Ecological Aspects of Agriculture
The Popular Education Method – Teacher Manual
The Popular Education Method – Urdu
Dept by Entrapment
Country Paper : Pakistan Haunting Shadows of Human Security
Chapter : Why Land is a Women’s Issue
How to Grow Your Own Food
Banking the Unbankable-PANOS
Why People Grow Drugs-PANOS
Category Archives: Monsanto
Seedy business
November 06, 2014 By NAJMA SADEQUE Throughout history, superpowers that outstayed their welcome eventually turned unscrupulous trying to hang on. The most recent one in the last century directly shaped and manipulated global institutions forcing most countries into submission. The … Continue reading
Posted in Agriculture, Agriculture in Pakistan, Food Security, GM Crops, GMO in Pakistan, IMF & World Bank, Monsanto, Monsanto in Pakistan, Pakistan's Economy, World Bank/IMF, WTO
Tagged GM seeds, GMOs, Monsanto, National Biosafety Centre (NBC), no Biosafety laws in Pakistan, OGDCL, Pakistan Seed Bill 2014, Seedy business, The National Biosafety Centre (NBC), World Bank/IMF, World Intellectual Property Organization (WIPO), WTO
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Patents to kill competition
April 23, 2014 NAJMA SADEQUE The Nation, 23rd April, 2014 In 1971, Mohan Chakravarty, an Indian-American, and his employer, General Electric, applied for the patenting of a genetically-engineered “oil-eating” bacterium. He took genes from three kinds of bacteria and transplanted … Continue reading
Self-poisoning by license
The NATION – March 19, 2014 NAJMA SADEQUE Alarming news has just arrived from Canada. The latest research reveals that Bt toxins are turning up in pregnant women and killing human embryo cells and unborn babies. Where did these toxins … Continue reading
Posted in GM Crops, GMO in Pakistan, Monsanto, Monsanto in Pakistan, Neo-colonialism, Uncategorized
Tagged ‘Biotech Ambassadors’ report, BT Cotton, Bt toxins, cry-toxins, Cry1Ab, Cry1Ac, Department of Genetics and Morphology, Dr. Mezzomo, endosulfan, Food & Water Watch, genetically altered crops, genetically-modified Bt crops, glyphosate, GM Crops, GM maize, GM seeds, GMO crops, Institute of Biological Sciences at the University of Brasilia, International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health, necrosis, reproductive toxicology, RoundUp, Sofia Gatica
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Death by GM contamination
March 11, 2014 NAJMA SADEQUE How did all this happen? Easily. By steady, unrelenting persuasion by a chemical-cum-GM seed multinational sitting around in Pakistan the past 15 years, seemingly twiddling its thumbs. Starting in America, nothing happened by accident but … Continue reading
Posted in Agriculture, Agriculture in Pakistan, B.T. Cotton, GM Crops, GMO in Pakistan, Monsanto, Monsanto in Pakistan, Pakistan's Economy
Tagged Biosafety Law, Death by GM contamination, Genetic Engineering, GMO hybrids, National Biosafety Centre, National Institute for Biotechnology, NIBGE, PAEC, public-private partnerships (PPP)
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Terminating the peasants
February 26, 2014 NAJMA SADEQUE Imagine maize, or corn, having cellular structures resembling those of humans, making them easier for scientists to manipulate. Much more disconcerting to discover however, was why scientists were tinkering with maize. Non-reproducing seeds apart, they … Continue reading
Posted in Agriculture, Agriculture in Pakistan, Food Security, GM Crops, GMO in Pakistan, Monsanto, Monsanto in Pakistan, Pakistan's Economy, Trade and Social Concerns
Tagged contraceptive corn, DuPont, Epicyte, Gene-Use Restriction Technology, global agrochemical market., GM plants, GM seeds, Green Revolution seeds, GURT, hybrid seed, Khyber Pakhtunwa province, Monsanto, Seed Act 2014, Terminator seed, Terminator’ patents, UN Convention on Biological Diversity
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They’re selling our country
– Najma Sadeque In 2011, thanks to advanced computers, three systems scientists at the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology drew on an existing global marketing database of over 30 million companies and investors worldwide. The study, called ‘The Network of Global Corporate Control’, traced their … Continue reading
Posted in Global Economy, IMF & World Bank, Monsanto, Monsanto in Pakistan, Pakistan's Economy, Trade and Social Concerns, World Bank/IMF, WTO
Tagged GATT, global monopolists, IFC, International Finance Corporation, Monsanto, OGDC, PPL, Selling a country, Swiss Federal Institute of Technology, The Network of Global Corporate Control, TNC, transnational corporations, World Bank/ IMF, WTO
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Bt by the backdoor
February 06, 2014 NAJMA SADEQUE With GMOs and Monsanto, the world’s biggest purveyor of toxic, death-dealing chemical pesticides and fertilizers, and seeds with drastically-altered DNA, there’s never a dull moment. Virtually every week, even daily, they make headlines somewhere in … Continue reading
Posted in Agriculture in Pakistan, B.T. Cotton, GM Crops, GMO in Pakistan, Monsanto
Tagged Bt by the backdoor
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Wikileaks : the GM/Bt push into Pakistan
By Najma Sadeque Wikileaks run into so many millions that it takes months or years to ferret out specifics relevant to one’s own country or other linked-up nations. One leak regarding corporate agricultural goings-on in Pakistan from 2008, was fished … Continue reading
The global agri-feudals
The global agri-feudals The Nation NAJMA SADEQUE There’s nothing new about the US goal of maintaining control over the world’s food and agriculture, or at least that of “developing countries”. It’s been an open secret since Kissinger’s … Continue reading
Posted in Agriculture, Agriculture in Pakistan, B.T. Cotton, Corporate Farming, GM Crops, Monsanto, Monsanto in Pakistan
Tagged 21st century feudalism, agricultural biotechnology, biotech, control of food supply, Control of world's food & agriculture, Corporate Farming, Environmental Working Group, Food & Water Watch (FWW, FWW, Global Agri-Feuds, GMO seed technology, IAASTD, industrialized agriculture, International Assessment of Agricultural Knowledge, Monsanto, Science and Technology for Development, World's food needs
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Think twice before you eat
by Najma Sadeque Genetically modified vegetables are being cropped everywhere despite worldwide resistance! Suddenly you’ll have to worry about every bit of food you put in your mouth. ‘Bagharey baigan’, a master dish, takes a lot of skill and … Continue reading
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