The UN Special Rapporteur on the Right to Food called for a global transition from unsustainable industrial agriculture to low-carbon ways of producing food. […]
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Research has linked a controversial herbicide used on GM crops with birth defects in Argentina. This has led to violence and intimidation for those behind the study. […] This report shows how sustainable agriculture can help India’s farmers – especially those in poor, remote areas – pull themselves out of poverty. […] The wide-ranging knowledge about climate variation possessed by native people and other small farmers has been shown to match scientific measurements recorded on high-tech instruments. […] Agriculture is the most important sector in many developing countries. It should not be treated as a commodity in the search for solutions to address climate change problems. […] Experts at a meeting made a strong call for a rapid and significant shift from conventional, monoculture-based and high-external-input-dependent agricultural production towards sustainable production systems. […] Report on a biosafety conference held on 7-9 Nov 2010 in Nagoya, Japan […] Item 1
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1. Claims made in support of Bt Cotton either in terms of pesticide usage or yields or economics do not hold as the data presented in this […]
Under the pretext of addressing environmental degradation, climate change and the energy and food crises, industry is portending a “New Bioeconomy” and the replacement of fossil carbon with living matter, now labeled “biomass.” […] |
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