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International people's tribunal indicts Monsanto, Dow Chemical and others for pesticide deaths, injuries
@Jyotika_Sood Issue Date: Dec 8, 2011
An international opinion tribunal, which probes and gives judgements relating to human rights violations, has indicted six transnational companies after a four-day public hearing held in Bengaluru this month.
Rajasthan scraps seed pacts
Issue Date: Nov 30, 2011
ON NOVEMBER 4, the Rajasthan government called seven seed companies to its offices in Jaipur to give them the bad news: the memorandums of agreement (MoUs) signed last year to collaborate on agriculture research had been scrapped after being in limbo for 15 months. The public-private partnership (PPP) envisaged in the agreements was comprehensive and of far-reaching significance, at least in the case of one, that with Monsanto Company of the US, the world’s largest purveyor of seeds and biotechnology.
A treasure too good to lose
Issue Date: Apr 15, 2011
When you see the traditional maize of Mexico for the first time you are stunned. It is a cornucopia of unimagined colours and lustre: blue black, purple, translucent beige, pearly white, some deep burgundy, sun-kissed yellow or crushed mulberry, and countless other combinations. Many of the variegated corn varieties appear to have been put together with a careful eye for dramatic effect. You wonder: are these real?
Farmers destroy DuPont’s GM rice
Issue Date: Dec 15, 2010
ABOUT 100 farmers in Karnataka destroyed a paddy field where multinational seed major DuPont was conducting field trials for genetically modified (GM) rice in collaboration with University of Agricultural Sciences Bangalore. The police have arrested 12 farmers for vandalism and trespassing.
Will seeds bill make it this time?
Issue Date: Dec 15, 2010
IT HAS been drafted several times in the past six years. The Union agriculture ministry is confident the seeds bill will make it through Parliament this winter session. But opposition parties, and some MPs from the ruling Congress Party, are getting ready to corner the ministry over legislation.
