Articles in the June 3, 2011 Issue of Crop Biotech Update

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

Bill to Accelerate Biotech Approvals in U.S.

Representative Stephen Fincher, a congressman from Tennessee, USA, introduced a legislation to speed up the process of approval for biotech crops. Fincher, who is also a farmer, called the bill as 'Expediting Agriculture Through Science (EATS) Act'. The legislation would allow Animal Plant and Health Inspection Service (APHIS) to have 180 days "to approve or deny a petition for non-regulated status, with an additional 60 days if needed to ensure the safety of the environment and compliance is met before deeming the petition approved."

Fincher emphasized the need for a more efficient approval process to keep the U.S. farmers leaders in biotech crop production.

The original news is available at http://brownfieldagnews.com/2011/05/31/bill-would-accelerate-biotech-approvals/.

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This article is part of the Crop Biotech Update, a weekly summary of world developments in agri-biotech for developing countries, produced by the Global Knowledge Center on Crop Biotechnology, International Service for the Aquisition of Agri-Biotech Applications SEAsiaCenter (ISAAA)

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