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Soil Association

• Failed promises: the rise and fall of GM cotton in India

  A Soil Association report, reveals how genetically modified (GM) cotton grew to almost obliterate all other cotton production in India, and how the promised GM success rapidly turned to failure, with disastrous,

  • 11/10/2017

  • Soil Association
  • • Bt Cotton
    • India
    • GM Crops
    • Cotton
    • Farmers

• Soil carbon and organic farming

  This report reveals that if all UK farmland was converted to organic farming, at least 3.2 million tonnes of carbon would be taken up by the soil each year - the equivalent of taking nearly 1 million cars off the road.

  • 01/11/2009

  • Soil Association
  • • Soil Erosion
    • Agriculture
    • Organic Farming
    • Climate Change
    • Green House Gases
    • Climate Mitigation
    • Carbon Sequestration
    • Climate Adaptation
    • United Kingdom (UK)