Bhaskar Save, the 'Gandhi of natural farming', died last year after a lifetime of organic growing and determined campaigning against the destruction of India's traditional, sustainable agriculture, writes Colin Todhunter. His 2006 open letter, published here, sets out a devastating critique of industrial agriculture and its impacts, and an eloquent and timely agroecological manifesto.
Bhaskar Save: the 'Green Revolution' ruined India; agroecology can restore her Colin Todhunter | 12th January 2016 Comment Farming Ecology India Organic Water bhaskar-save-cut.jpg Bhaskar Save, the …
New research suggests that we are heading for an "ecological Armageddon" that will affect all life on the planet, including humans. COLIN TODHUNTER investigates.
Rolling back the tide of pesticide poison, corruption and looming mass extinction Colin Todhunter | 24th November 2017 Comment Pesticides Extinction Corruption Tobacco WTO Many insects, including …
Can organic farming feed the world? Ed Hamer and Mark Anslow say yes, but we must farm and eat differently
10 Reasons why organic can save the world Ed Hamer Mark Anslow | 1st March 2008 News Organics Can Organics Save The World Gm Farming Food Farming Pests And Pesticides Biotechnology Diversity Factory …
Agroecology is key to retaking control over food, farming and land from the 'monstrous machine' of agribusiness, biotech, big finance and 'free trade', writes Colin Todhunter, as it represents a truly viable alternative to agriculture for corporate profit. But such are the powers ranged against the world's small farmers that it must be supported by a broad-based, global people's movement.
… elements of contemporary ecology, soil biology and the biological control of pests. …
How can progressive movements rise above merely being right, to mount effective mass opposition to corporate rule and the dictatorship of the super-wealthy? By learning from Gandhi, writes Colin Todhunter, and devising new campaigns that engage with people's everyday concerns - like access to safe, wholesome, affordable, 'open source' food.
From salt to GMOs - resistance is fertile Colin Todhunter | 1st February 2016 Activism Food GMOs Corporations History Human Rights War gandhi-cut.jpg How can progressive movements rise above merely …
February 1968. From South Vietnam the explosive Teêt Offensive has dealt a final blow to shattered US troops and sparked a worldwide appetite for insurrection. Left destitute by standards of living and provoked by a three-year war on their ideological comrades, student leaders across Europe rise up with a single voice ‘We shall fight. We will win. Paris, London, Rome, Berlin.’ Within six weeks, 20,000 protesters will besiege the American embassy in London’s Grosvenor Square. It is the Spring of Discontent, and revolution is the air.
Talking about the Why Generation Ed Hamer Jon Hughes | 1st February 2008 News Generation Y Generation X Baby Boomers Millenials Protests 1968 The Future Hippies Environment Protest Children UK US …
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.
Militarism and Monsanto or Gandhi and Bhaskar Save? The agroecology alternative Colin Todhunter | 9th May 2016 News India Corporations Farming Water The Land Seeds Agroecology Finance …
India celebrates its Independence Day today, writes Colin Todhunter. But the highly visible system of British colonial dominance has been replaced by a new imperial hegemony: the invisible, systemic rule of transnational capital, enforced by global institutions like the World Bank, while US-based global agribusiness corporations have stepped into the boots of the former East India Company.
On Independence Day, India's new rulers are the World Bank, IMF, WTO and Monsanto Colin Todhunter | 15th August 2016 News India Farming Seeds GMOs Corporations Finance yoke-india-cut.jpg India …
Can organic farming feed the world? Ed Hamer and Mark Anslow say yes, but we must eat and farm differently
10 reasons why organic can feed the world Ed Hamer Mark Anslow | 1st March 2008 News Food And Farming Food Organic Farms Feed 10_organic.jpg Can organic farming feed the world? Ed Hamer and Mark …
To understand how technology is used in the real world we must appreciate who owns and controls it, writes Colin Todhunter: whose interests it serves, and how it works in an economic system driven by profit, geopolitics and the compulsion to capture and control markets - while the monopolists proclaim a noble ideology of 'free choice' and 'democracy'.
… abuse. Could GM (or even synthetic biology for that matter) ever be a viable …