India's Genetic Engineering Appraisal Committee stands accused of Contempt of Court for evading Supreme Court orders to carry out full biosafety tests on GM crops and publish its data, writes Colin Todhunter. The immediate issue is a herbicide tolerant GM mustard now approved for large scale trials, while earlier findings remain under an impenetrable veil of official secrecy.
… December 2015 News GMOs Law India Farming Biodiversity Regulation mustard2-cut.jpg … commercialisation means that the impacts on biodiversity will be irreversible. Rodrigues …
The corporate war on traditional farming is nowhere fiercer than in India, writes Colin Todhunter. After decades of the 'Green Revolution' that have impoverished the nation's soils, water, biodiversity and cultivators alike, agribusiness is poised for its final strike. But now the small scale farmers who produce most of the country's food are rediscovering ancient agroecological alternatives.
… have impoverished the nation's soils, water, biodiversity and cultivators alike, … revolves around crop rotation, agricultural biodiversity and organic agriculture. The farm …
After two decades of neoliberalism, India's magnates and corporations are profiting as never before, writes Colin Todhunter. But the entire economic edifice is built on the dispossession of the poor, locked into debt servitude, and ever rising income inequality. Prime Minister Modi's latest move, 'demonetization', is yet another example of the state stealing from the poor to give to the obscenely rich.
… that! Seeds, mountains, water, forests and biodiversity are being sold off. The farmers …
Organic farming produces more nutritious food than chemical agriculture, writes Colin Todhunter, while sustaining soils and building organic matter. And we know this from real, peer-reviewed scientific studies - unlike the pseudo-science touted at us by the self-interested advocates of industrial agribusiness.
The world must step off the chemical farming treadmill Colin Todhunter | 29th October 2015 Comment Farming Food Health India Toxics work-farm-india-cut.jpg Organic farming produces more nutritious …