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Jobones. Courtesy of  Jorge Abeja . B eyond the GMO threat is the theft of biological resources BEEKEEPERS  ISSUE CONDEMNATION OF PRIVATE FOUNDATION Devon G. Peña | Seattle, WA | June 14, 2018 We have been reporting on the ongoing struggles of Mayan beekeepers for several years now ever since indigenous peoples filed suit against Monsanto, other corporations, and the Mexican government over the illegal planting of GMO corn, soy, and other crops despite a federal ban on these substances. To read more start with our posts of October 25, 2015 and the most recent of May 15, 2018 ; to find all our coverage, type “beekeepers” in the search window in the upper right-hand corner of this page. We have also reported on how GMOs are not the only threat to the Mayan beekeepers. We have pointed at deforestation—which is associated with a considerable amount of illegal logging and the expansion of agribusiness monoculture plantations—as another major menace to biocultural diversity and ind...

Provisional suspension of the planting of transgenic maize in Yucatán 16 COURT APPEALS & SUPREME COURT HAVE MAINTAINED THE SUSPENSION FOR TWO YEARS Devon G. Peña | Viejo San Acacio, CO | November 4, 2015 In a press release dated November 3, the lead plaintiffs’ organization, Demanda Colectiva Maíz , announced that opponents of genetically engineered corn in Mexico prevailed in an important new federal appeals court ruling. The federal judge, Benjamin Soto Sánchez, head of the second Unitarian Court in Civil and Administrative Matters of the First Circuit, upheld the provisional suspension that prohibits pertinent federal agencies from processing and granting the privilege of sowing or releasing into the environment of transgenic maize in the country. The federal suspension has been in force since September 2013 despite 100 challenges by transnational agribusiness interests and the federal government. The attorneys for the defenders of maize had also argued that, in the case of GMO ...