• 3 February 2011:
  A new CANVAS documentary entitled 'Everything For Science' introduces us to six famous Belgian scientists with international fame, among whom Marc Van Montagu. The documentary focuses on his personal story as well as on his research and its impact on our daily lives.
  
  
• 18 September 2010: Listen to Marc Van Montagu's talk at the Académie Royale de Belgique, entitled: "De la sécurité alimentaire à l’industrie verte : contributions des sciences de la vie."
  
  
• September 2010: 'Challenges and responsibilities for public sector scientists' (pdf 325 Kb)by Marc Van Montagu - New Biotechnology, September 2010
  Current agriculture faces the challenge of doubling food production to meet the food needs of a population expected to reach 9 billion by mid-century whilst maintaining soil and water quality and conserving biodiversity. These challenges are more overwhelming for the rural poor, who are the custodians of environmental resources and at the same time particularly vulnerable to environmental degradation. Solutions have to come from concerted actions by different segments of society in which public sector science plays a fundamental role.
  
  
• 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)
  
  
• 17-18 April 2010 : Die Entwicklung der grünen Gentechnik - article in newspaper Der Standard.
  
  
• 14 April 2010: Rijst uit Eigen Labo - article in newspaper De Morgen.
  
  
• IIBN was featured in the global news section of University World News, an online global higher education publication focusing on international higher education news and analysis, developments, events and announcements based in the UK
  
  
• Marc Van Montagu's opening lecture for V CONGRESO NICARAGÜENSE DE BIOTECNOLOGÍA, V Nicaraguan Biotech Conference (Managua, 22-23 ABRIL, 2010): (Download the full lecture here: GM-Plants as cornerstone for sustainable development (mpg 600 MB)
  
  
   
  

• Read more about the IIBN event at SciDev.Net: IIBN Launches Biotech Network for Developing Countries  by Carol Campbell, Scidev.net, April 22, 2010
  
  
• April 21st, 2010:
  GM technology pioneer's broadside - European policy and environmental groups in firing line as professor speaks out
  by Joe Watson
  
  

• Marc Van Montagu, Belgian molecular biologist, believes that the difference between rich and poor is a matter of seeds... On the stage of TEDx Brussels 2009, Marc Van Montagu expressed his clear visionary message: we will need Genetically Modified Organisms to feed the planet.

• Article with Em. Prof. Dr. Marc Van Montagu in the New York Times,  October 21, 2009.

• Landbouwareaal intenser benutten article from Biotechnologie - April 2009.

• L'invention des OGM et conséquences - article in La lettre de l'Académie des sciences - numéro 24 - 2009.

• 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
  

• Genome Valley Award 09. Em. Prof. Dr. Marc Van Montagu was honoured with India’s most coveted ‘the Genome Valley Award’ by Dr. Y.S. Rajasekhara Reddy, Chief Minister of Andhra Pradesh, Feb 2nd 2009

• Society needs biotech innovation and so it should organize money. President of the European Federation of Biotechnology Em. Prof. Dr. Marc Van Montagu spoke to Mint about issues that concern him, biotech industry and India, Jan 7th 2009 

• Jobat - Biotechnologie is essentieel om het voedseltekort in de wereld op te lossen, Nov 22nd 2008

• Jobat - Misbegrepen Wereldverbeteraar, Nov 22nd 2008

• EOS - Ggo's zijn een zegen voor de biodiversiteit, Nov 8th 2008

• EU's biotech regulations stall agricultural improvements in developing countries, Mar 8th 2007

• Interview of Marc Van Montagu to Science Business, Jan 19th 2006
  
  
  
  
  

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