India

 Programmed to kill

Farmers of the world are under attack. A new technology threatens to make them totally dependent on multinational corporations

Publication Date: 
30/08/1998
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Seeds, Farmers, Multinational Corporations (MNCs), Scientific And Technical Development
India

 Farmers in distress

A proposed new law threatens to abandon farmers to the tender mercies of seed corporations

Publication Date: 
14/08/1998
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Seeds, Farmers, Intellectual Property Rights (IPR), Legislation, Government Of India (GOI)
Economy

 It s all in the name

Thai farmers and activists object to a US company s use of the name Jasmati for a rice variety

Publication Date: 
30/07/1998
Down to Earth
Tags:
Rice, Farmers, Genetic Resources, Exports, Patents, Intellectual Property Rights (IPR), Thailand, United States Of America (US)
India

  DYING FOR RAIN

Several farmers in

Publication Date: 
30/05/1998
Down to Earth
Tags:
Farmers, Sri Lanka, Crops
India

 Spice woes

Thousands of Mizoram farmers now face an impending financial crisis, thanks to the apathy of the state government

Publication Date: 
29/04/1998
Down to Earth
Tags:
Root Crops, Farmers, India, Mizoram
Poverty

 Peru

Despite their long history and their prominence in the local diet, potato yields of small Andean farmers are generally low. This is largely due to pest and disease-related losses. Intensified potato

Publication Date: 
14/04/1998
Down to Earth
Tags:
Andes, Farmers, Peru
Health

 IN FOCUS

The National Human Rights Com-mission (NHRC) has asked the Andhra Pradesh government to submit a report regarding mass suicides by cotton farmers in the state. Recently, P Pullarao, a resident of

Publication Date: 
30/03/1998
Down to Earth
Tags:
Cotton, Farmers, Human Rights
India

 Aliens!

Weeds acquire strange resistance to herbicides. Nature seems to go haywire. And causing all the confusion are genetically modified organisms, reports Indira Khurana

Publication Date: 
27/02/1998
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Farmers, Multinational Corporations (MNCs), Genetic Engineering, Research Agencies
Forests

 Close encounters

Introducing GMOs must proceed with caution as these products have failed to deliver so far

Publication Date: 
27/02/1998
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Farmers, Multinational Corporations (MNCs), Genetic Engineering, Research Agencies
India

 Magic plants

Born in the laboratory, these plants possess traits which nature had refused to bequeath to them

Publication Date: 
27/02/1998
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Farmers, Multinational Corporations (MNCs), Genetic Engineering, Research Agencies

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