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Public protests mount against Bt brinjal

Supreme Court seeks details on steps to protect indigenous varieties

Brazil’s GM corns no more resistant against bugs

Farmers demand compensation as seed companies blame farmers

India set to grow biofortified crop

Four states to cultivate iron-rich pearl millet by 2012

Call for moratorium on biofuel

Scientists warn PM against GM contamination

Ask government to be cautious of Bangladesh's Bt Brinjal cultivation

400,000 people petition parliament panel to withdraw BRAI Bill

Deadline for public feedback on biotechnology Bill expires August 25

Bt Brinjal – the war goes on

Pro Bt Brinjal group releases a report challenging contention that the vegetable is used in medicine

Farmers want support

Say they are more vulnerable due to erratic weather

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Cheating and dishonestly inducing delivery of property

GM food debate hots up again

Gilles-Eric Seralini, one of the first scientists to warn the world about the dangers of genetically modified food, counters pro-GM scientists in …

Ace swimmer Lewis Pugh swims seven seas to raise awareness

The initiative is to campaign for dedicated Marine Protected Areas across the world

Private sector is profiting from vacuum left by ICAR

In the agriculture research hierarchy, Swapan Kumar Datta occupies the second rung, one of eight deputy director generals (DDGs) in the Indian …

Agroecology is the only way

Government hikes minimum support price of paddy by 16 per cent

It’s a rough deal, say farmers

Stilted against South

Climate change could rob developing nations of its food security

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Karnataka High Court issues notice to National Biodiversity Authority on charges of paving way for biopiracy

Petition by a non-profit accuses authority of callousness towards protecting the country's biodiversity

‘Stopping GM trials is anti-farmer’

Genetically modified (GM) mustard hybrid DMH-11 developed by Delhi University’s Centre for Genetic Manipulation of Crop Plants ran into …

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Pristine Tasmania faces GM threat

Opium industry lobbies to lift moratorium on GM farming

Submission to parliamentary committee on agriculture regarding GM crops

Memorandum to the Committee on Agriculture with views on “Cultivation of Genetically Modified Food Crops – Prospects and Effects&…

Down To Earth Editor Sunita Narain's submission to parliamentary committee on agriculture regarding GM crops

Parliament panel report on GM food highlights rift within government

Calls for wider discussions before allowing transgenic crops