with Dr Vandana Shiva and Chandra Bhushan […] there is a significant gap between the aggregate effect of national mitigation pledges […]
CONTINUE READING →Navdanya set out to find the real extent of the damage of BT cotton whitefly epidemic in Punjab. In the Bathinda region, we found most farmers had to either uproot their crops […]
CONTINUE READING →If Dow – DuPont deal unfolds as planned, Iowa farmers can look forward to even less choice when it comes time to order corn and soybean seed, higher seed prices, and a doubling-down […]
CONTINUE READING →Proposed special rights for corporations in EU trade deals such as CETA and TTIP threaten to prevent the necessary energy transition to tackle climate change. Polluting corporations are already using the dangerous investor privileges in trade and investment deals to challenge progressive energy policies.
CONTINUE READING →For use on its new genetically engineered corn and soybeans, Dow Chemical Co. is reviving 2,4-D, a World War II-era chemical linked to cancer and other health problems.
CONTINUE READING →On the afternoon of World Soil Day – December 5, 2015 – on the occasion of COP21, leaders in defense of life and of our Planet […]
CONTINUE READING →“Land, water and agriculture-related conflicts are deliberately mutated into religious conflicts to protect the militarised agriculture model which has unleashed a global war against people.”
CONTINUE READING →More than 50% GHG emissions are related to industrial agricultural production, most of which is methane from animal husbandry and nitrous […]
CONTINUE READING →In December 2015 Navdanya attended The United Nations Conference on Climate Change (COP21) in Paris for a collective response to the issues that define 2015 as the year of Soil […]
CONTINUE READING →Monsanto and the pesticide industry breathed a collective sigh of relief on 12 November 2015. The findings of an investigation into the toxicity of glyphosate by the European Food Safety Authority (EFSA) and EU Member States were in stark contradiction to the March 2015 conclusion by the International Agency for Research against Cancer (IARC), a body of the World Health Organization (WHO), that this agricultural herbicide was probably causing cancer to humans. If validated, this conclusion could cause a partial ban of glyphosate in the EU
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