Draft Seeds Bill, 2019
The revised draft Seeds Bill 2019, which the Ministry of Agriculture and Farmers’ Welfare placed in the public domain recently for suggestions and comments, seems to be a watered down version of a draft
Seeds
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Commentary: Work together, save the planet
Late last month the Svalbard Global Seed Vault opened in Longyearbyen, on the Norwegian island of Spitsbergen.
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Seeds of hope
The Svalbard Global Seed Vault, the most comprehensive repository of the world's agricultural diversity created in the remote island of Spitsbergen in the Arctic, is a symbol of humanity's concern
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Biodiversity: Frozen futures
The 'Doomsday vault' buried in the Arctic ice will provide a backup for the world's seeds. But more needs to be done to safeguard food diversity.
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Vandana Shiva
Vandana Shiva, is an Indian environmental activist and anti-globalization author. She was trained as a physicist and received her Ph.D. in philosophy from the University of Western Ontario, Canada, in
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Navdanya
Navdanya started as a program of the Research Foundation for science, Technology and Ecology (RFSTE), a participatory research initiative founded by world-renowned scientist and environmentalist Dr. Vandana