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India has the largest number of smallholder farmers in the World, 600 million by some estimates. From this army of workers one impoverished desperate man, or indeed woman, with a noose of debt around their neck takes his or her own life on average every thirty minutes, A statistic barely......
Read more: Indian Farmers Trapped And Desperate By Graham Peebles
Navdanya organised a Public hearing on “Organic farming as the Real Green Revolution, a solution to poverty and hunger” at Balasore in Odisha on 23rd. January, 2013. The Public Hearing was inaugurated by Sri Srikant Jena, Union Minister for Chemical & Fertiliser in the presence of......
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In a speech, Conservative environment secretary Owen Paterson has made a renewed case for genetically modified food, while admitting that 'we owe a duty to the public to reassure them that it is a safe and beneficial innovation'. Are you convinced yet?
Food is supposed to provide us nourishment and health but because of the toxins it contains, what we consume has become a major threat to our health. Some toxic substances are added to our food physically, through adulteration, while some enter our food system chemically, through pesticide residues. And some......
Read more: Know your food, Know your farmer
By Vandana Shiva
29th Dec 2012
Today the brave and courageous survivor of the Delhi gang rape breathed her last. This blog is a tribute to her and other victims of violence against women.
Violence against women is as old as patriarchy. But it has intensified and become more pervasive in the recent......
Read more: Violent Economic “Reforms” , and the Growing Violence against Women
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