Deconstructing Indian cotton: weather, yields, and suicides

On June 21, 2015

[…] Annual suicide rates in rainfed areas are inversely related to farm size and yield, and directly related to increases in Bt cotton adoption.

GMO that kills: GM-cotton problems drive Indian farmers to suicide

On May 25, 2015

Hundreds of thousands of farmers have died in India, after having been allegedly forced to grow GM cotton instead of traditional crops.

Soil Building in India’s ‘Suicide Belt’

On April 19, 2015

by Eden Kinkaid – FoodTank, 18 April 2015 The Living Soils Save Lives program trains farmers to value and cultivate […]

Rising suicide rate for Indian farmers blamed on GMO seeds

On December 2, 2014

RT News, 22 November 2014 Source: http://rt.com/news/206787-monsanto-india-farmers-suicides/ Monsanto, which has just paid out $2.4 million to US farmers, settling one […]

The Failure of GMO Bt cotton and the continued success of Native Indigenous Cotton in India

On July 20, 2022

A Briefing Paper of RFSTE

Film: I want my father back

On October 23, 2020

English version of the film ‘I Want My father Back’ (2007). This is a film on the suicide of farmers in Vidarbaha, Maharashtra, India.

One Planet, One Health – Connected through Biodiversity

On March 18, 2020

Ecological Reflections on the Corona virus One Planet, One Health – Connected through Biodiversity: From the forests, to our farms, […]

Organic is the future

On January 30, 2020

By Sapna Gopal – Thirdpole.net, 29 January 2020 | Source Vandana Shiva, a pioneer of organic farming in India, is […]

TRANSITION TO CLIMATE RESILIENT AGROECOLOGY IS THE IMPERATIVE For India’s present & future Biosecurity

On September 6, 2019

Workshop and new report

Monsanto Does Not have a Patent on Bt Cotton Seeds

On January 9, 2019

The Supreme Court Ruling Upheld India’s Law, not Monsanto’s False Claims on Patents on Seeds.

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