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In honoring the seed biotechnology industry, this year’s World Food Prize — often considered the Nobel Prize for food and agriculture — betrays the award’s own mandate to emphasize “the importance of a nutritious and sustainable food supply for all people.”[i]

The 2013 World Food Prize has gone to three chemical......

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With a PhD in the foundations of quantum theory, Dr. Vandana Shiva has led an unusual life for a physicist in the 21st century.

Thirty years ago, Dr. Shiva dedicated her life “to the seed.” She founded Navdanya, the movement for seed saving in India. And the movement has since......

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A ground breaking new study [1] shows that pigs were harmed by the consumption of feed containing genetically modified (GM) crops.

The research results were striking and statistically significant. GM-fed females had on average a 25% heavier uterus than non-GM-fed females, a possible indicator of disease......

More than 1,200 people took part in a Rally on tractor trolleys, jeeps, cars, buses and motorcycles from Daak Patthar Barrage on Yamuna river about 12 km away from the Charba village, in Doon Valley where Coca-Cola plans to set up its plant. Young and old, villagers and city dwellers......

Technologies are tools for doing or making things. They are a means to transform what nature has given into food, clothing, shelter, means of mobility, means of communication. Technology is a means to an end; it is not an end in itself.

But when we stop perceiving technology as a means......