In her new book The Vandana Shiva Reader, the celebrated campaigner and scientist deplores the way in which the Green Revolution forced India's poorest farmers off their land, writes Colin Tudge. Now she fears even worse outcomes in Africa where a GMO-fuelled farming revolution is under way.
… Similar methods then produced shorter-stemmed rice in the Philippines. Now there is much … achievement The stems of wheat (and rice) needed to be reduced, it was felt, …
Chemicals, pesticides, GM and agrofuels – when it comes to food production it seems the lunatics are running the asylum. But there is hope in some new approaches
… inspirational stories include a Japanese rice farm where ducks do the weeding and pest …