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On Thakur Das’s farm in northern India, rice fields stretch into the distance, creating a chartreuse sea of waist-high stalks. Mr. Das, 59, gazed out at the crops on his small farm, about 16 kilometers from the city of Dehra Dun, where he grows rice, wheat and corn in rotation,......

Fresh doubts have arisen about the safety of genetically modified crops, with a new study reporting presence of Bt toxin, used widely in GM crops, in human blood for the first time.

Genetically modified crops include genes extracted from bacteria to make them resistant to pest attacks.

These genes make crops......

Read Dr. Vandana Shiva’s brilliant address to the Samdrup Jongkhar Initiative Launch on organic vs chemical agriculture and her answers to farmer’s questions

On 17th May 2011, Navdanya held a Press Conference on the topic of Land grab and Land wars to call for an end to unjust land acquisition for private profits masked under the cloak of public purpose. Across the length and breadth of India, from Bhatta in Uttar Pradesh to......

A quarter of a million Indian farmers have committed suicide in the last 16 years—an average of one suicide every 30 minutes. The......

On April 23-25, 2011, several national groups went on a protest march from Tarapur to Jaitapur opposing the nuclear power plant at Jaitapur......

New Delhi (ABC Live): Indian Environment and Forests ministry has signed an agreement with The Survey of India to map, delineate and demarcate the hazardline along India's 7 km wide coastal belt.

It is to mention that MoEF has signed The Memorandum of Understanding with Survey of India for Integrated Coastal......