The drug menace in Punjab is one aspect of the seeds of discontent of the Green Revolution
CONTINUE READINGBy Nnimmo Bassey, Mariann Orovwuje, Gbadebo Rhodes-Vivour – HOMEF (Health of Mother Earth foundation), June 2016 Source: http://www.homef.org/pressrelease/nigerias-biosafety-agency-defies-government-nigerians Despite the promise of the Minister […]
CONTINUE READINGNavdanya, 18 June 2016 With the aim of giving more options to dry land Vidarbha farmers and promoting organic farming replacing […]
CONTINUE READINGBy Lorraine Chow – EcoWatch, 16 June 2016 Monsanto has received permits from Nigeria’s biotechnology regulatory body for its Bt […]
CONTINUE READINGNational IPR Policy cannot go against values and Ordre Public embodied in Indian Civilisation, the Indian Constitution, and the Indian Biodiversity and Patent Act.
CONTINUE READINGGovt says the 18 May order for Bt cotton technology will be withdrawn and placed as a draft for public […]
CONTINUE READINGAcross the world, communities are saving and exchanging seeds in diverse ways […]. They are creating and recreating freedom — for the seed, for seed keepers, and for all life and all people.
CONTINUE READINGFood is supposed to nourish us. Farming is the most important source of livelihood and sustenance in India. However, today farming […]
CONTINUE READINGNative seeds and organic farming are the answer to drought and climate change, to farmers’ suicides and to the agrarian distress. They are also the answer to hunger and malnutrition.
CONTINUE READINGThe Hindu, 7 April 2015 Source: http://www.thehindu.com/news/national/karnataka/complaint-registered-against-15-bt-cotton-seed-companies/article8444287.ece Kariyappa, a farmer from Turakanadoni village in Raichur taluk, has filed a private complaint […]
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