{"id":60585,"date":"2021-11-22T08:40:52","date_gmt":"2021-11-22T13:40:52","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/?p=60585"},"modified":"2021-11-22T08:40:52","modified_gmt":"2021-11-22T13:40:52","slug":"mexican-seeds","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/?p=60585","title":{"rendered":"M\u00e9xican Seeds"},"content":{"rendered":"
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M\u00e9xican Seeds<\/a><\/h3>\n<\/header>\n
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Last month\u2019s ruling by the country\u2019s Supreme Court fuels sustainable farming worldwide, writes\u00a0Ernesto Hern\u00e1ndez-L\u00f3pez.<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n

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Mexico\u2019s Supreme Court in Mexico City. (Ricardo Daniel Maldonado, CC BY-SA 4.0, Wikimedia Commons)<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

L<\/strong>ast month M\u00e9xico\u2019s Supreme Court provided hope for biodiversity, especially in the Global South, while flaming fear for\u00a0seed companies.\u00a0In a\u00a0historic step<\/a>, it ruled for corn advocates and against genetically modified (GMO) corn. The decision was a\u00a0momentous act<\/a>\u00a0in country where\u00a0ma\u00edz<\/em>\u00a0(corn) carries daily and sacred significance.<\/p>\n

This promises a way out of stale GMO debates that plague us. One side argues that genetic changes to seeds increase harvests. Seed companies and industrial agriculture make up this side. Another side says GMOs damage plant DNA.<\/p>\n

Small-scale farmers and environmentalists stand on this side. Neither addresses the other.\u00a0<\/strong>This standstill keeps GMO policies ineffective. The court\u2019s\u00a0decision<\/a>\u00a0offers a path out of this by cutting at seed company positions.<\/p>\n

We should follow slow grown Mexican resistance to GMOs.<\/p>\n

By emphasizing biodiversity, the\u00a0ruling<\/a>\u00a0fuels sustainable farming worldwide.\u00a0In legal terms,\u00a0the\u00a0decision<\/a>\u00a0found that it is constitutional for courts to block commercial permits for GMO corn.\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n

Seed companies, like\u00a0Monsanto, Syngenta, Dow, and PHI<\/a>,\u00a0need these to sell seeds in\u00a0M\u00e9xico. They lost.\u00a0\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n

Global GMO Push\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n

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Inside the COP26 climate conference in Glasgow, Scotland, in early November.\u00a0(UNclimatechange, Flickr)<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

But much more is at stake than permits and court orders. These agrochemical companies pursue a global push for GMO agriculture, not just in\u00a0M\u00e9xico. Farmers worldwide worry that companies\u00a0control<\/a>\u00a0GMO seed use (not growers) and that seeds cause permanent environmental harm.<\/p>\n

Frustrations persistently spread, evident at this year\u2019s UN\u00a0COP26<\/a>\u00a0and UN\u00a0global food summit<\/a>.<\/p>\n

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M\u00e9xican Seeds Last month\u2019s ruling by the country\u2019s Supreme Court fuels sustainable farming worldwide, writes\u00a0Ernesto Hern\u00e1ndez-L\u00f3pez. Mexico\u2019s Supreme Court in Mexico City. (Ricardo Daniel Maldonado, CC BY-SA 4.0, Wikimedia Commons) Last month M\u00e9xico\u2019s Supreme Court provided hope for biodiversity, especially in the Global South, while flaming fear for\u00a0seed companies.\u00a0In a\u00a0historic step, it ruled for corn […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[4,6],"tags":[6963,32200,25508,373,32198,32199,517,5576],"class_list":["post-60585","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-environment","category-liberty","tag-consortium-news","tag-ernesto-hernandez-lopez","tag-genetically-modified-organisms-2","tag-gmos","tag-inter-press-service","tag-mexican-supreme-court","tag-mexico","tag-sustainable-farming"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/60585","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=60585"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/60585\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":60586,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/60585\/revisions\/60586"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=60585"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=60585"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=60585"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}