The FAO has recently launched a publication highlighting the challenges faced by mountain family farmers. The publication provides case studies from around the world showing how mountain regions and family farmers are affected by population growth, the spread of urban lifestyles and the migration of men and youth to urban areas. It also looks at …
The legal battle over field trials of GM crops
https://www.natureasia.com/en/nindia/article/10.1038/nindia.2014.14 Shashi Kumar, Raj K. Bhatnagar, Keshab R. Kranthi, Swapan K. Datta doi:10.1038/nindia.2014.14 Published online 31 January 2014 India is facing a deadlock over the approval of field trials of new genetically modified (GM) crops. The impasse stems from the delay in decision over the matter by the Genetic Engineering Appraisal Committee (GEAC) under India’s …
Myths and realities of Gujarat Agriculture: various articles
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Land location overrides fertility; threat to food security: Study
Farmers engaged in agriculture on fertile land which has locational advantages get lower economic returns from agriculture Press Trust of India | <news:geo_locations>New Delhi January 22, 2014 Last Updated at 19:06 IST With industrialisation, the location of a land overrides thefertility factors which may pose a threat to country’s food security problems, said a study released today. “Location of a land holding plays a …
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India needs to export excess food grains
http://www.moneylife.in/article/india-needs-to-export-excess-foodgrains/35973.html AK RAMDAS | 15/01/2014 12:00 PM | There is an urgent need to encourage corporate bodies to invest in building up the infrastructure facilities for storage and exports of food grains In order to support the Food Security Act, the Ministry of Agriculture has estimated that the essential foodgrains in India, to the extent of 53 million tonnes be maintained …
Pesticides ‘making bees smaller’
Bumblebees exposed to a widely-used pesticide produced workers with lower body mass, scientists theguardian.com, Monday 20 January 2014 10.01 GMT Bumblebees could be shrinking because of exposure to a widely-used pesticide, a study suggests. Photograph: Nick Ansell/PA Bumblebees could be shrinking because of exposure to a widely-used pesticide, a study suggests. Experts fear smaller bees will …
The Trials of Genetically Modified Food: BT EGGPLANT AND AYURVEDIC MEDICINE IN INDIA
Chithprabha Kudlu Washington University Glenn Davis Stone Washington University Abstract Although planting of genetically modified (GM) crops has topped 148 million ha. worldwide, direct consumption of GM foods remains extremely rare. The obstacles to GM foods are highly varied and they can provide windows into important cultural dynamics. India’s heated controversy over its would-be first …
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Leaving farmers to reap the bitter harvest
Devinder Sharma January 19, 2014 A day after Parliament approved foreign direct investment in multi-brand retail in December 2012, a newspaper report highlighted how a big retail company was exploiting both the farmers as well as the consumers: the wholesale cash-n-carry Bharti-Walmart enterprise, the report said, was buying baby corn from contract growers in Punjab …