Parliament panel report on GM food highlights rift within government

Calls for wider discussions before allowing transgenic crops

The Monsanto way

How the US multinational won state governments and influenced policy

Equally good

Counting grains

Diminishing returns

Sustainability increases if ethanol is made from sugarcane juice: Study

Sugarcane cultivation has benefitted from entrenched policies that incentivised production for decades

Tree-planting campaigns can reduce, not improve biodiversity, shows study

Tree plantations can contradict the real purpose of planting trees, according to the study

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&…

The escape route

Punjab, which accounts for only 1.5 per cent of the total geographical area of the country, cannot continue producing for the whole country. It …

Cancer-struck

Incidence of cancer and other diseases have increased. But callous officials prefer to call it a 'coincidence'

Punjab: end of the revolution ?

Cost of production has spiralled, but the rate of increase in production has not shown a similar trend. Ecological and social costs, meanwhile, …

Paan loses flavour

Iconic paan no more appeals to farmers, traders and common people. They say the contagious spread of chewing tobacco, especially gutkha, is fast …

Mark Lynas and the demeaning of science

He’s fuzzy on facts and low on science, but the campaigner gets big media support

A pre-emptive strike against Monsanto

American organic farmers are trying to ensure the biotech giant cannot sue them

Kerala gets cautious

Plans to ban extremely and moderately hazardous pesticides in cardamom district, Idukki

Bad feed

New lands of the free

New lands of the fat?

Land of the Free

Growing organic tea in northeast India is a difficult task

News 360° - Briefs

News 360° - Briefs

Test tube brinjal

Costly silence

No one is debating where goats will graze

Kharif crops take a severe hit by intense and unprecedented rainfall across India

IMD advises farmers to drain maize fields, delay sowing paddy in several states  

What do science-based targets to limit climate change really look like?

Commitment to climate justice demands that rich countries make deeper cuts to their emissions than merely equalising per-capita emissions by 2030