Blog Botánico
Food Disaster: Republicans Stomp on GMO Labeling
With no debate and only a voice vote, the U.S. House of Representatives Committee on Agriculture today (July 14, 2015) passed out of committee H.R. 1599, a bill to preempt states’ rights to label GMOs. Within hours, it was announced that the bill will go straight to the House floor, as early as next week, with no vote in the Energy and Commerce Committee.
USDA Gives First Non-GMO Verification
USDA Gives First Non-GMO Verification Viana Muller, Ph.D. Minneapolis, MN—The USDA has verified its first non-GMO claim through its Process Verified Program(PVP). Secretary of Agriculture Tom Vilsack noted that while the PVP itself is not new, this is the first claim of its kind to be verified through it. He added that other companies have taken interest in having their claims verified through the program. PVP being used for non-GMO verification does not mean that the USDA has set its own non-GMO standards. Instead, the program has the USDA’s Agricultural Marketing Service (AMS) act as a third party in verifying marketing...
WWB Meets with Leaders in Communities of Camu-Camu Collectors
WWB Meets with Leaders in Communities of Camu-Camu Collectors
Viana Muller, Ph.D.
Viana Muller, co-founder of Whole World Botanicals, visiting the Apu (head man) of the settlement to find out what kind of help their settlement needs the most.
Proyecto de energÃa solar en invernadero
Hombres de cinco comunidades productoras de maca construyen una habitación estrecha con paredes y techo de vidrio para recoger la energÃa solar pasiva del brillante sol de gran altitud.
Proyecto de cocina solar
Whole World Botanicals colabora con nuestros socios de agricultura orgánica y recolección de productos silvestres en la selva tropical y los Andes para apoyar no solo la agricultura ecológica sino también la vida ecológica.
A Hands on Approach - WWB works directly with native people
A Hands on Approach - WWB works directly with native people
Viana Muller, Ph.D.
"Viana consults with an apu (local leader of a camu-camu collecting community) about challenges of life in the northeastern Peruvian rainforest. Outside commerical interests have clear-cut part of their forest and over fished their rivers, degrading their environment and impoversihing local river dwellers."
WWB Supports & Promotes Bio-energetic Agriculture
WWB Supports & Promotes Bio-energetic Agriculture
Viana Muller, Ph.D.
Whole World Botanicals' herbs are bioenergetically grown and harested. Maca roots, for example, are sown at the full moon and leafy plants are sown with the new moon. In order for medicinal parts to have maximum strength, plants are harvested at the full moon. These practices of native people all over the world are honored by WWB.
WWB - Practicando el comercio justo desde 1996
Whole World Botanicals se ha asociado durante más de una década con las comunidades de habla quechua que cultivan nuestras raÃces de maca orgánica en los altos Andes peruanos.
Preservando la selva amazónica
En 2007, el gobierno peruano otorgó a WWB una Concesión para Conservación, una Reserva Forestal de más de 10.000 acres de selva tropical antigua virgen cerca del Parque Nacional Pacaya-Samiria.
Alianzas peruanas con Whole World Botanicals, Inc. Alianza para la Nueva Humanidad
Un nuevo modelo de prácticas empresariales sostenibles que respete la sabidurÃa indÃgena. Las grandes corporaciones, ayudadas por un sistema económico global despreciable, perpetúan prácticas empresariales notoriamente deficientes en el mundo mayoritario.
