NEWS

Global
• Renewed Investments and Enabling Policies for Poverty Reduction 
• Impacts of GE Crops on Biodiversity 
• Oxfam: Avert Global Food Crisis 

Africa
• Nigeria Passes Biosafety Bill 
• SACAU Adopts GMO Policy Framework 
• African Researchers and Farmers Begin Effort to Reduce Crop Loss from Striga 

Americas
• Plant Breeders to Use Genomic Selection to Improve Crops in Developing Countries 
• Researchers Discover Key for Identifying Gender in Date Palm Trees 
• Climate Change Allows Invasive Weed to Outcompete Local Species 
• Bill to Accelerate Biotech Approvals in U.S. 
• Bioengineers Design Faster and Less Expensive Chip Producing DNA 
• Hard White Winter Wheat Registered for Planting in Ontario, Canada 

Asia and the Pacific
• Australian Farmers Part of the Global Food Security Solution 
• FSANZ Response to Study Linking Cry1Ab Protein in Blood to GM Foods 
• FSANZ Calls for Comment on Horticulture Paper 
• Managing Biotechnologies for Resource Poor Farmers 

Europe
• Europe Should Change Agricultural Policies, Says IIED 
• Species Extinction in Plants 
• Roadblock to Nutrient Selection and Harmful Microorganisms in Plant Roots 

Research
• Insect Resistance Transgenes Reduce Herbivory and Enhance Fecundity in Rice 
• Scientists Track the Fate of Cry1Ab protein in Agricultural Chain 
• Resistance to Recombinant Stem Rust Race TPPKC in Wheat 

Announcements
• Biotech World Congress in Dubai 
• ISAAA Now on Facebook and Twitter 
• CIALCA International Conference in Rwanda 

Document Reminders
• Updated Pocket Ks on Insect Resistance and Herbicide Tolerance Technologies 
• Growing Better Rice for a Hungry World 
• Economics of GM Crop Cultivation