Nothing green in the Green Revolution
There is no reason why India should face hunger and malnutrition, and why our farmers should commit suicide. India is blessed with the most fertile soils in the world. Our climate is so generous we can,
There is no reason why India should face hunger and malnutrition, and why our farmers should commit suicide. India is blessed with the most fertile soils in the world. Our climate is so generous we can,
March 10 : Ecologists like me are called
Since 1966 - and as a consequence of the introduction of the Green Revolution model of water intensive, chemical farming - India has over-exploited her groundwater, creating a water famine.
THE APPROVAL of Bt Brinjal by the Genetic Engineering Approval Committee (GEAC) has exposed the unscientific basis on which genetically-engineered crops are being commercialised, and it raises questions about the entire bio-safety process.
Vandana Shiva
THE UNITED Nations climate change conference at Copenhagen next month is meant to further the goals of a global environmental treaty -- the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC).
<p>The traditional Indian strategy of resolving conflict by non-cooperation, the satyagraha, has been revived in the Chipko, or "Embrace the Tree", the movement to protect trees from commercial
Sept.11 : In times when food is genetically manipulated and chemically contaminated, the metaphor "food for thought" can also stand for manipulated information and be toxic food for thought. Unfortunately, Dr M.S. Swaminathan