Test tube brinjal

Indian regulators are keen to clear Bt brinjal for commercial cultivation. This would be India’s first genetically modified food crop. If …

GM purple tomatoes to fight cardiovascular diseases

UK-based Cathie Martin to start clinical trials soon; green activists protest and call trials ‘violation of European Union norms’

Just like a forest

Analog forestry mimics a forest to create an economically productive and ecologically diverse landscape

Moily bats for GM trials

After he revives regulatory body for GM crops, industry demands removal of state clearances

Vidarbha farmers unhappy with minimum support price for cash crops

Agriculture ministry overlooked increased input and labour costs, ignored state government recommendations

Parliamentary committee slams regulatory system on GM crops

Says the crops have an impact on health and the environment and that these aspects were overlooked while approving Bt Brinjal trials in India

Rules and renegades

Pesticide regulations in India are lax. The industry has exploited the loopholes to corrupt the system. And the government has turned a blind eye …

Industry's Nemesis

A report by the National Institute of Occupational Health nails endosulfan. Is that why the pesticide establishment wants to keep it under wraps?

Scientists’ panel calls for 10-year moratorium on GM field trials

Supreme Court-mandated expert committee recommends new tests in thorough overhaul of India’s regulatory regime

The GM maize rats

Findings of the Seralini lab on effect of Monsanto’s GM maize on rats set off a global furore

A people’s festival to protest CBD conference

Non-profits to represent united resolve to protect the country’s natural wealth and bio-cultural heritage from powerful economic interests

Biotech industry has a new patron

Department of Biotechnology is playing venture capitalist to private companies to push biotech research in agriculture

"Subsidy culture has killed local agriculture"

Thupstan Chhewang, Chief Executive Councillor and chairperson of the Ladakh Autonomous Hill Development Council (LAHDC) speaks to Down To Earth.

Ladakh on the move

Ladakh is the one region in India where sustainable development is the only way ahead. Dry toilets, water efficient crops, cooperative farming, a …

World Water Week 2023: We must invest in natural solutions like spring revival for water security

Time to move away from a hard-engineering approach and embrace nature-based solutions for water security in hill and mountain communities  

Indian diets are unhealthy: EAT-Lancet report

The report compared food consumption patterns in India with a reference diet from the EAT-Lancet Commission

Indefinite moratorium on GM field trials recommended

Supreme Court’s expert panel of scientists for ban on herbicide tolerant crops for India

Indefinite ban on GM field trials recommended

Supreme Court’s expert panel of scientists also against herbicide-tolerant crops for India  

Into the ginger trap

Farmers from Kerala make big bucks by growing ginger in Karnataka but leave behind a trail of pollution

Pro-GM farmers stage protest near Parliament

Farmers' organisations demand rejection of technical experts committee report recommending indefinite ban on field trials of GM crops

Agrarian crisis: farmers from 15 states protest at Delhi Jantar Mantar

They demand moratorium on land acquisition; farmers' suicides, falling incomes and GMOs on list of concerns

Billowing Rage

The Sukruli cauldron threatens to boil over if the Orissa government does not act against the smoke-spewing sponge iron plant in the area.

Scientists’ panel to add new member for report on GM field trials

Weeks after expert committee recommended moratorium Supreme Court agrees to agriculture ministry's request to add new member to panel

Simmering discontent over tea

The newfound success of brand Darjeeling is fuelling suspicion between planters and workers. Sayantan Bera reports

How competent is Indian science?

A shoddy inter-academy report on GM crops casts a shadow on the integrity and competence of Indian science, while a US expert finds approval for …