The eighth meeting of the Conference of the Parties to the Convention on Biological Diversity (CBD COP-8) opened in Curitiba, Brazil, today.After more than a decade of planting GM crops in the environment, over 130 Parties of the United Nations Agreement on Genetically Modified Organisms, called the Biosafety Protocol, will meet in Curitiba, Brazil, to take a crucial decision that may significantly affect the current model of development and trade of GM foods around the world.</p><p><a href="http://www.iisd.ca/biodiv/cop8/">Earth Negotiation Bulletin COP8</a></p><p><a href="http://biotech-trade-watch.org/?Vlang=en">Biotech Trade Watch</a></p><p><a href="http://biotech.indymedia.org">biotech.indymedia.org</a></p><p><a href="http://www.foei.org/gmo/biosafety.html">Friends of the Earth</a></p><p><a href="http://www.banterminator.org">Ban Terminator</a></p><p><a href="http://www.saveourseeds.org/downloads/EP_preparation_COPMOP_2006.pdf">European Parliament resolution on preparations for the COP-MOP meetings on biological diversity and biosafety</a>