Just two years after he quit his job as an instructional designer at a multinational IT firm, Chennai-based Vishnu Vardhan is engineering a silent organic revolution in the state. The 27-year-old has started a one of a kind rent-a-farm training programme for people interested in growing their own food in a bid to popularise organic […]
We are writing to you from the Indian Coordination Committee of Farmers Movements, which is a network of farmers movements that is committed to dignity and self-respect for farmers. Several of our members also are part of the international peasants movementLa Via Campesina. We represent thousands of villages in South India and hundreds of thousands […]
The recently passed US Congressional budget that averted government shutdown will allocate $3 million to the U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) and the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) to promote the environmental, nutritional, food safety, economic and humanitarian impacts of biotech crops and genetically modified (GMO) ingredients in food to consumersmany of whom are wary […]
This story is of Vishalakshi Padmanabhan and Prof Kishore Kumar, and their two children. In 2008 Vishalakshi, a chartered accountant was working at a corporate company, earning ₹20 lakh per annum. Kishore taught Kannada literature in the citys Sharada College. They had two sons and a seemingly perfect life.
NEW DELHI: Even as the government has been quite cautious of taking its final call on the fate of genetically modified (GM) food crops in India, its think-tank NITI Aayog has pitched for opting transgenic seeds arguing its importance in ensuring agricultural growth in the country. The Aayog, however, favoured only those varieties which are […]
Hungary has taken a bold stand against biotech giant Monsanto and genetic modification by destroying 1000 acres of maize found to have been grown with genetically modified seeds, according to Hungary deputy state secretary of the Ministry of Rural Development Lajos Bognar. Unlike many European Union countries, Hungary is a nation where genetically modified (GM) […]
NEW DELHI: The Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh (RSS), the BJPs ideological patron, has won the GM crop war with the governments premier policy think-tank Niti Aayog. In the first authoritative indication, the planning bodys draft on the three-year action plan, a copy of which is with The Sunday Standard, admits that other alternatives (to GM crops) […]
Researchers and farmer groups have lauded the KCR governments proposals, but grass-roots level workers have questioned their sustainability, calling for a more holistic and eco-friendly approach instead.
SUNDARGARH: Ecological farming has benefited several farmers of the district and elsewhere with many of them reaping profits through use of organic seeds. Speaking about their experiences during the two-day Desi Chasi Sammelani here, a woman farmer, Nirmala Barla of Sundargarhs Balishankara block, said ecological farming brings more benefits and profits compared to the conventional […]
By Heather Callaghan, Editor Burkina Faso is a Western African country located under Mali. It also happens to be Africas biggest cotton grower, so a gamble on GMOs is a risk for the whole nation. Although Burkina Faso (BF) did in fact make that gamble already with Monsantos genetically engineered cotton variety, but reverting back […]