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During the annual Food and Crafts festival jointly organised by Navdanya, Women Alliance of Ladakh women groups decides to adopt the Thimphu declaration. The festival was inaugurated by the sitting MP Sri Thupstan Tsewang. At the occasion about 200 women and representatives of government and Non......
Read more: Ladakh Women Farmers decide to Go Organic and Scale up Agroecology
Prakash Javadekar said: ‘Galileo was telling the truth and he was punished.’ Monsanto and its lobbyists are today’s Church. And independent scientists speaking the truth about GMOs and their impact on society, health and environment are today’s Galileos.
Speaking at the launch of the fifth assessment report of......
Read more: The Galileo syndrome?-1
Most of the farmers had no option and they were just wating the monsoons. Their sad faces and empty fields were showing their misery.
Some of the farmers sowed seeds anticipating the time for rains but rains failed to arrive and the seeds rotted without rains. Many of......
Read more: Dry spell in Vidarbha !!!!!!
21 new varieties of genetically modified (GM) crops such as rice, wheat, maize and cotton have been approved for field trials by the Narendra Modi government, say reports. According to these reports, the Genetic Engineering Appraisal Committee (GEAC) — consisting mostly of bio-technology supporters — rejected......
Corporate rule violates the principles of swaraj, sovereignty and self-rule. In the name of removing hunger and poverty, it pushes us deeper into poverty.
Swaraj, freedom, was one of the most frequently used terms in the campaign for 2014 general elections. During his speech on the ghats of the Ganga, expressing......
Peels of power | Genetically modified fruit with dollops of Vitamin A and iron to undergo human trials
A super-enriched banana genetically engineered to improve the lives of millions of people in Africa will soon have its first human trial, which will test its effect on vitamin A levels, Australian researchers......
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The IB report makes specific mention of the Supreme Court cases which have been filed. It curiously also accuses civil society organisations and individuals of influencing 3 Committees that were officially mandated to assess GMOs. The IB report objects to these formal government reports, the Moratorium Orders of Shri Jairam......
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