Mexico's Congress passes ban on cultivation of GMO corn

With the vote against 10 legislators of the National Action Party, the Congress of Mexico City approved with 49 votes in favor of the minuta with a draft constitutional decree that prohibits the cultivation of GM maize, which was endorsed by the Senate on Wednesday.

By Fernando Gómez / time in Argentina / March 7, 2025. Promoted by a large group of social organizations, the measure will seek to prioritize the defense of biodiversity, food sovereignty and agroecology. The experience promoted from below that implies a new learning for the social organizations of the continent. “Without corn there is no country,” said [...] The entry Social Ecology. In a historic decision, Mexico gave constitutional status to …

The drought and lack of financial support are suffocating the production of maize in Mexico , a staple food in the national diet. With an estimated production of only 2.8 million tons in Sinaloa by 2025, the country faces a record number of imports. What does the future hold for the Mexican countryside? At critical levels! The intense drought has severely affected the production of maize, a fundamental grain in the Mexican diet. The lack of fina…

Mexicali, March 6. With the objective of preserving and protecting native maize, the Baja California Congress approved by a majority the minute sent by the Senate of the Republic, to grant constitutional status to maize as “basic, substantial food, free of genetic modifications and identity of Mexicans.” The initiative was presented by President Claudia Sheinbaum Pardo to reform articles 4 and 27 of the Political Constitution of the United Mexic…

The reform exposes that it seeks to protect biodiversity and food sovereignty PORTAVOZ/AGENCIAS The plenary of the House of Senators approved by 97 votes of Morena, PVEM, PT, PRI and MC, and 16 of the PAN against the reform of articles 4 and 27 of the Constitution, regarding the conservation and protection of native corns, whose decree was forwarded to the Legislatures of the states and of Mexico City for approval; the constitutional change will…

Senator Colimense, Ana Karen Hernández Aceves, said that with the GM maize reform, the contamination of this crop in Mexico is avoided and its conservation and protection is guaranteed, in addition to dignifying the Mexican countryside and giving certainty to the traditional processes of the farmers. By setting the position of its parliamentary group in the upper chamber of the Congress of the Union, Hernández Aceves, said that these constitutio…