Full Coverage: Agriculture

26.06.2006 Earlier, there were no 'outside' fertilisers or seeds. There were no (plant) diseases and we were happy", recalls 83-year-old Chandrappa, farming for the last 60 years on his family's five acres in the black cotton-soil heartland of this southern Indian State.

23.06.2006 Across much of India, the rains that should have come with the annual four-month monsoon have been lighter than usual - so suicide rates among India's 700 million farmers, many burdened with drought-related debt, are high.

23.06.2006 Community leaders from Mehdiganj in north India began a hunger strike to demand the closure of the Coca-Cola bottling plant. The leaders have accused the Coca-Cola bottling plant in Mehdiganj of creating severe water shortages affecting over twenty villages, polluting agricultural land and groundwater, illegally occupying land, evading taxes and treating workers unfairly.

22.06.2006 The Indian Science Writers’ Association (ISWA), Science Technology and Development Initiative (STAD) and the Indian Ministry of Environment and Forests (MoEF) are holding a workshop on bio-safety for science journalists and communicators on July 5-6, 2006 in New Delhi.

19.06.2006 Indian concerns on women's land and resource rights will find voice at the Third World Urban Forum being held in Vancouver from 19th to 23rd June 2006.

16.06.2006 After three days of sustained pressure, Indian agriculture and food minister Sharad Pawar met Greenpeace activists at his residence on Friday morning. The minister assured that he would take into account the concerns raised by Greenpeace in the memorandum but will "not influence the Genetic Engineering Approval Committee (GEAC)" in the upcoming decision on whether to allow large scale field trials of GM brinjal next month.

13.06.2006 Às vezes, tratamos de assuntos que são urgentes e de cujo teor sentimos falta. Outras vezes, devemos aclarar coisas que já vivemos, mas sentimos a necessidade de tratar para confirmar e aprofundar o caminho já percorrido. Para as pessoas que consagram a vida a serviço da justiça e luta por um novo mundo possível, a Ética é algo assim.

13.06.2006 Dressed as cattle Greenpeace protestors tried to seek an audience on Tuesday with Indian agriculture minister Sharad Pawar over the mysterious deaths of livestock in the south Indian state of Andhra Pradesh, allegedly due to consumption of genetically modified crops.

13.06.2006 In developing countries like India, climate change could represent an additional stress on ecological and socioeconomic systems which are already facing tremendous pressures due to rapid urbanization, industrialization and economic development.

09.06.2006 As Agriculture ministers from seven states of the country are meeting in Hyderabad to discuss the issue of BT seeds, a non-government organisation campaigning against genetically modified seeds has demanded a ban on BT seeds in India.

08.06.2006 SAN FRANCISCO, June 8 (OneWorld) - U.S. military and economic might in South Korea are being called into question this week as villagers launched a hunger strike to protest a U.S. military base expansion that would force them from their lands and farmers' unions demonstrated in Seoul against a proposed free trade agreement.