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The fight for your plate
http://www.hindustantimes.com/India-news/Mumbai/The-fight-for-your-plate/Article1-1099950.aspx Smruti Koppikar, Hindustan Times Mumbai, July 29, 2013 Imagine you have a choice of bananas – one that you have always preferred from the 200 varieties India has to offer and another engineered to give you extra iron but whose impact on your physiology is uncertain. Imagine a similar choice with your staple rice; …
After Bihar tragedy, FAO urges cut in hazardous pesticides
http://in.reuters.com/article/2013/07/30/fao-pesticides-bihar-midday-meal-idINDEE96T07520130730?feedType=RSS&feedName=globalCoverage2 Reuters 30 July 2013 (Reuters) – Developing countries should speed up the withdrawal of highly hazardous pesticides from their markets following the death of 23 children from contaminated food in India, the United Nation’s Food and Agriculture Organization said on Tuesday. The children in Bihar died earlier this month after eating a school meal …
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The deep water crisis
http://www.thehindu.com/sci-tech/energy-and-environment/the-deep-water-crisis/article4960717.ece P. Sainath The Hindu A few thousand drilling rigs roll into parched states each year and drill over a thousand feet to extract scarce groundwater for the farm. Hard-working rig-operators are providing a real response to a very real demand from farmers, but with grave consequences for groundwater supplies No other town can boast …
Weedkillers tied to depression in farmers
http://www.chicagotribune.com/health/sns-rt-us-weedkillers-20130726,0,4595601.story Kerry Grens Reuters2:34 p.m. CDT, July 26, 2013 NEW YORK (Reuters Health) – Farmers who used weedkillers were more than twice as likely to be treated for depression than farmers who didn’t use the chemicals in a new study from France. Whether the weedkillers are causing depression “is not clear,” said Marc Weisskopf, the …
National Food Security Ordinance: Anything But Expensive
http://www.epw.in/web-exclusives/national-food-security-ordinance-anything-expensive.html Vol – XLVIII No. 30, July 27, 2013 | Dipa Sinha While critics have overblown the cost estimates of the National Food Security Ordinance, the ordinance itself is a missed opportunity. What is needed is a more comprehensive Act which incorporates measures such as procurement, storage and distribution through a decentralised, strengthened and universal …
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Accept expert panel report on GM crops: forum
Gargi Parsai http://www.thehindu.com/todays-paper/tp-national/accept-expert-panel-report-on-gm-crops-forum/article4950675.ece The report is a strong indictment of regulatory affairs: Coalition Welcoming the recommendations of the Technical Expert Committee (TEC) on Genetically Modified crops, the Coalition for a GM-free India has urged the government to accept the report and “not come in the way of delivery of justice.” The panel, set up by …