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Captain Hook Awards for Biopiracy 2008

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The Coalition Against Biopiracy* exposes Hooks and celebrates Cogs

www.captainhookawards.org

Today (21. May 2008) the world learned which corporations, governments, institutions and individuals earned a spot in biopiracy’s hall of shame when the Coalition Against Biopiracy (CAB) announced the winners of the 5th Captain Hook Awards at a lunch-time ceremony during the Ninth Conference of the Parties (COP9) to the Convention on Biological Diversity (CBD) in Bonn, Germany.

Gigantes Genéticos se adueñan de “genes climáticos”

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En medio de la crisis alimentaria mundial, las compañías biotecnológicas se muestran como mercaderes del cambio climático

Un informe publicado hoy (13 Mayo 2008) por el Grupo ETC, organización internacional de la sociedad civil con sede en Canadá, revela que las mayores empresas globales de semillas y agroquímicos están acumulando centenares de patentes monopólicas sobre genes de plantas, que luego pretenden comercializar como cultivos modificados genéticamente para resistir presiones ambientales asociadas con el cambio climático –por ejemplo sequía, calor, frío, inundaciones, suelos salinos, y otras. El informe del Grupo ETC advierte que más que una solución para enfrentar el cambio climático, la promesa de los llamados “cultivos resistentes al clima” (“climate-ready”) se utilizará para llevar a agricultores y gobiernos a aceptar definitivamente los transgénicos y las patentes que éstos implican.

News Release: Gene Giants Grab "Climate Genes"

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Amid Global Food Crisis, Biotech Companies are Exposed as Climate Change Profiteers

A report released by Canadian-based civil society organization, ETC Group, reveals that the world's largest seed and agrochemical corporations are stockpiling hundreds of monopoly patents on genes in plants that the companies will market as crops genetically engineered to withstand environmental stresses associated with climate change - including drought, heat, cold, floods, saline soils, and more. ETC Group's report warns that - rather than a solution for confronting climate change - the promise of so-called "climate-ready" crops will be used to drive farmers and governments onto a proprietary biotech platform.

Jolly gene giant-a book review of Claire Hope Cummings' "Uncertain Peril"

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Jolly gene giant-a book review of Claire Hope Cummings' "Uncertain Peril"

Review by Hope Shand, research director of ETC Group.
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In October 1996, a spokesman for Monsanto told Farm Journal why his company was buying up seed companies left and right: "What you're seeing is not just a consolidation of seed companies, it's really a consolidation of the entire food chain."

Ganadores de los Premios Capitán Garfio y Cog 2008

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La Coalición contra la Biopiratería exhibe a los Garfios y celebra a los Cog

Bonn, Alemania - La Coalición contra la Biopiratería celebró la ya tradicional entrega de los Premios Capitán Garfio y Premios Cog en el marco de la 9ª Conferencia de las Partes al Convenio de Diversidad Biológica (COP9) en Bonn, Alemania, el 21 de mayo de 2008.

Hollow Victory: Enola Bean Patent Smashed At Last (Maybe)

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The infamous Enola bean patent, first denounced by ETC Group eight years ago as a textbook case of biopiracy, was struck down yesterday (April 29, 2008) by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office in Washington, D.C. One of the most controversial plant patents in history, the effort to defeat it was unprecedented because it involved the United Nations and international plant breeding institutes.

Victoria hueca: Patente sobre el frijol Enola anulada finalmente (esperemos...)

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La infame patente del frijol Enola, denunciada por primera vez por el Grupo ETC hace ocho años como un cínico ejemplo de biopiratería, fue anulada el 29 de abril del 2008 por la Oficina de Patentes y Marcas Registradas de Estados Unidos. Siendo una de las patentes sobre plantas más controvertidas de la historia, su derrota no tiene precedentes, pues involucró a naciones tanto como a organizaciones de la sociedad civil e instituciones internacionales de fitomejoramiento.

Ahoy, Mates!

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The Coalition Against Biopiracy today calls for nominations for the Fifth Captain Hook Awards

www.captainhookawards.org

What's the most scandalous case of biopiracy[1] in your country? Who's ripping off indigenous knowledge in your community? Which privateer is most egregiously pillaging the global commons for profit? Who's monopolizing your genes or patenting your plants?

Nominate your least favorite pirate for a 2008 Captain Hook Award. All outrageous achievements in biopiracy deserve recognition!

Nominate your most admired biopiracy-resistor for a 2008 Cog Award. All those who have fought off biopirates, defeated predatory patents or otherwise foiled the nefarious plots of fiendish privateers deserve recognition. (Cog Awards are so-named because cogs were ships designed to repel pirate attacks.)

¡Alerta, colegas!

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La Coalición contra la Biopiratería convoca a la 5a Entrega de Premios Capitán Garfio

¿Cuál es el caso más escandaloso de biopiratería en su país? ¿quién saquea el conocimiento indígena en su comunidad? ¿Quién privatiza descaradamente los bienes comunes para lograr ganancias privadas? ¿Quién monopoliza sus genes o patenta sus cultivos?

Nomine a su pirata más odiado para los Premios Capitán Garfio 2008. ¡Necesitamos conocer los peores casos de biopiratería!

Special Report on Human Genomics

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Direct-to-Consumer DNA Testing and the Myth of Personalized Medicine: Spit Kits, SNP Chips and Human Genomics

The topic of this report is the burgeoning Direct-to-Consumer (DTC) genetic testing industry, which is promising consumers a guidebook for maintaining health as well as a gene-based horoscope predicting future illness.

Temas relacionados: 
Relaciones Públicas / Privadas
Genómica y Biotecnología
Biodiversidad y diversidad cultural

Svalbard's Doomsday Vault

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The Global Seed Vault Raises Political/Conservation Debate

The swarm of media attention focusing on today's opening of the Global Seed Vault in Norway's high Arctic may overshadow an even bigger news story. The Norwegian government pledged to give 0.1% of money spent on commercial seed sales to support Farmers' Rights, and challenged other governments to do the same. The critical message is that even the most secure gene bank storage is not the ultimate solution. Governments must provide support to farmers to improve local conservation and breeding, and help them obtain access to far away seed accessions.

El cartel del a soberanía alimentaria

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Puesto que los gobiernos no pueden gobernar, las principales instituciones involucradas en la alimentación y la agricultura se encuentran en graves problemas. A menos que gobiernos y agencias internacionales cooperen, estas instituciones quedarán dañadas irreparablemente y las multinacionales de los agronegocios y los capitalistas filantrópicos seguirán aprovechando el vacío de poder ocasionado por la OCDE.

El Instituto Venter construye la secuencia más larga de ADN artificial (que no funciona)

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“No importa lo largo, sino lo inteligente que sea”, advierte el Grupo ETC

El Grupo ETC renovó su demanda de una moratoria a la liberación y comercialización de organismos artificiales, enfatizando que no hay regulación ni debate social en torno a la biología sintética. La insistencia en la moratoria ocurre en el contexto del anuncio que hiciera el equipo de investigación de J. Craig Venter, de haber logrado sintetizar artificialmente un genoma del tamaño del de una bacteria, utilizando secuencias de ADN ordenadas por correo.

Venter Institute Builds Longest Sequence of Synthetic DNA (that Doesn’t Work)

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“It’s not how long – but how wise” cautions ETC Group

ETC Group renewed its call for a moratorium on the release and commercialization of synthetic organisms, asserting that societal debate on the oversight of synthetic biology is urgently overdue. The renewed call came as J. Craig Venter’s research team announced that it has constructed a bacterial-length synthetic genome in the lab using mail-order synthetic DNA sequences. They’ve named the synthetic genome, Mycoplasma genitalium JCVI-1.0, and it’s similar to its counterpart in nature, a genital bacterium with the smallest known genome of any free living organism. The announcement is not breaking news because the work had been previously reported, but the details were published today in Science.

La bóveda del fin del mundo en Svalbard

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Asunto: Con la inauguración de la Bóveda Global de Semillas en el Alto Ártico en Noruega el pasado 26 de febrero se cierra una campaña de 30 años por el establecimiento de un Banco Mundial de Genes, y se abre un debate muy necesario sobre el estado de los recursos genéticos del mundo y la necesidad de apoyar las estrategias de conservación en el campo.

Too small to be beautiful? Organic Pioneer says No to Nano

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Too small to be beautiful? Organic Pioneer says No to Nano

Now that you can drive your ‘nano’ car, listening to your ipod ‘nano’ while wearing ‘nano’ sunscreen and ‘nano’ clothing, the UK’s largest organic certifier has just introduced the perfect nano-antidote - a ‘nano-free’ standard for consumer products. The Soil Association – one of the world's pioneers of organic agriculture announced today that it is has banned human-made nanomaterials from the organic cosmetics, foods and textiles that it certifies.

Food’s Failed Estates = Paris’s Hot Cuisine

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Food Sovereignty – à la Cartel?

Because governments have failed to govern, the leading multilateral institutions involved in food and agriculture are in deep trouble. Unless governments and international secretariats cooperate, these institutions will be irreparably damaged and the power vacuum OECD states have created over recent decades will continue to be filled by multinational agribusiness and the new philanthro-capitalists.

Organic Pioneer Says No to Nano

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ETC Group Welcomes World’s First ‘Nano-free’ Standard

Now that you can drive your ‘nano’ car, listening to your iPod ‘nano’ while wearing ‘nano’ sunscreen and ‘nano’ clothing, the UK’s largest organic certifier has just introduced the perfect nano-antidote – a ‘nano-free’ standard for consumer products. The Soil Association – one of the world’s pioneers of organic agriculture – announced today that it is has banned human-made nanomaterials from the organic cosmetics, foods and textiles that it certifies. (1)

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