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  • Listen  to Marc Van Montagu's talk at the Académie Royale de Belgique on 18 Sept 2010, entitled: "De la sécurité alimentaire à l’industrie verte : contributions des sciences de la vie."

  • 13-15 May 2011, Addis Abeba, Ethiopia: International Conference and Exhibition on Agricultural Biotechnology in Africa: Fostering Innovation. Speakers include Jeffrey Sachs (Columbia University), Juma Calestous (Harvard University) and Professor Rober Paarlberg a Harvard Fellow.

  • 10 February 2011: The University of Ghent, as part of one of their European collaborative projects, is organizing a 1-day symposium on the theme of the Plant-Microbial Fuel Cell.
    Venue : Auditorium OEHOE, Campus Coupure 653, Gent.
    Open for participation to everybody who is interested in contributing with a poster or for who wants to interact with other colleagues.
    Updates, information on invited speakers and other information can be found on the website: www.plantpower.eu.

  • 11 October 2010: New MOP5 Press Release (pdf 66 kb)on the Carthagena Protocol, Nagoya, Japan

  • ISAAA's new biotech video "Clive James Speaks" articulates the staggering growth of biotech crops from 1.7 million hectares in 1996 to 134 million hectares in 2009  the 80-fold increase in adoption of biotech crops. The video features a clear trend in the growth of biotech crops in favor of developing countries as compared to industrial countries. In 2009, some 16 of 25 biotech crop growing countries were developing countries from Asia, Africa and Latin America which planted almost as large an area of biotech crops as the 9 industrial biotech crop countries.
    "Clive James Speaks" shares the success of biotech crops in the first decade of commercialization of biotech crops from 1996 to 2005 and elucidates the path of achieving a target of biotech crop adoption to
    200 million hectares by 20 million farmers in 40 countries by 2015  the second decade of commercializing biotech cropscoinciding with the UN Millennium Developing Goals (MDG). In the same vein, the video also
    highlights the adoption, impact and future of biotech crops globally.

  • PSB ranks number one among plant science centers worldwide.
    In a benchmark study by the ARC Centre of Excellence in Plant Energy Biology, Australia, the VIB Department of Plant System Biology, UGent came out as the best plant research institute, worldwide.

  • 22 October 2010: The Division of Biosafety and Biotechnology of the Scientific Institute of public health (SBB) organises a scientific symposium highlighting the contribution of recent scientific developments in the evaluation of risk assessments of GMOs. The meeting will take place in Brussels, Belgium and will be held in the frame of the Belgian Presidency of the European Union.
    For registration and detailed programme : http://symposiumRA.biosafety.be
  • IPBO: 1-4 July 2010: STCU Round table "Expert Workshop on Modern Genetic Engineering and Biosafety"
    A round table "Expert Workshop on Modern Genetic Engineering and Biosafety", was organized by the Institute Plant Biotechnology for Developing Countries (IPBO, University Ghent, Belgium) and the Science and Technology Center in Ukraine (STCU) and held at the Plant Systems Biology Department of the University Ghent, Belgium from 1-4 July, 2010. (read more) 
  • 26 June 2010: Prof. Lieve Gheysen gave a presentation at the Dag van de Biotechnologie on Saturday 26th June 2010: "Toepassingen van plantenbiotechnologie, ook voor ontwikkelingslanden?"
  • 10 May 2010: "EU will adopt GM", says pioneer Marc Van Montagu. "It may take 10 to 15 years before Europe fully opens its doors to genetically modified food crops, but the doors will open", a co-pioneer of the gene transfer process believes. (by Matt Cawood, The Land. Source: http://www.theland.com.au)

 

 

 

 

  • The Royal Society has published the report of a landmark study examining the contribution of the biological sciences to food crop production. Reaping The Benefits