The Pellipadugu Declaration on Food Sovereignty

Adivasi, dalit, pastoralist and peasant communities declare food security can only be met through Food Sovereignty

Green revolution, gene revolution has not worked

From green revolution to gene revolution, at who's cost?

Science meets fiction

Down To Earth invites sci-fi buffs and writers to take its readers on a guided tour of the world of science fiction that throws a mirror to the …

Act of omission

Public institutions do not seek permission from the biodiversity authority before genetically manipulating crops

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 …

The GM maize rats

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

GM and the superhero

Rogue GM crops wreak havoc

Monsanto’s unauthorised GM wheat in the US has spooked the world, but contamination is widespread

Bt gene harms GM plant

New answers to old questions on biosafety of GM crops

GEAC has power only to withdraw permission

Arjula R Reddy, a plant geneticist, was appointed co-chairperson of the Genetic Engineering Appraisal Committee (GEAC) in 2009. At present, he …

Regulatory battle

Industry and activists have expressed conflicting opinions on GM crops. GEAC has a difficult decision to make

Test tube brinjal

"GMOs will not feed the world"

GMs renegade genes

Ecological costs of a GM plant are higher than benefits

"Only half the rats fed GM food survived"

Digging deep into muck

Film>> The World According to Monsanto • directed by Marie-Monique Robin

India launches its first genetically modified crop

Bt brinjal set for field trial, experts warn of health risks

Monsanto at the receiving end of Bt cotton pricing policy

Monsanto losing price war with state governments

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Biotech is not just GM

Michael Antoniou teaches Molecular Genetics at King's College, London. In his spare time, he likes to help non-profits with information on the …

Syngenta for import of its genetically modified maize

Syngenta charts new GMpath

GM maize and its health implications for humans

Michael Antoniou, head of the Nuclear Biology Group in the UK, has been studying the health effects of genetically modified (GM) crops since 1995.…

'They asked me to withdraw my court case'

P PARDHA SARADHI is tenacious. This mild-mannered professor at the Department of Environmental Studies at the University of Delhi (DU) has …

France says yes to GM trials

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