Full Coverage: Agriculture

27.07.2006 from interim thoughts blog:
Modern American farming uses the energy equivalent of three or four tons of TNT per acre each year. Can India leapfrog this oil-rich approach to farming?

26.07.2006 SAN FRANCISCO, Jul 26 (OneWorld) - Despite a 46-year effort to eradicate poverty, hunger remains a problem in many parts of the world, says a new report arguing that a re-think of political priorities in the United States and elsewhere could boost efforts to get food to hungry people around the globe.

26.07.2006 Indian trade experts are unanimous that no deal at the World Trade Organisation (WTO) augurs better for India than a bad deal but developed nations will continue to put pressure on developing countries to open up their markets.

26.07.2006 Lakhs of the world’s poorest farmers, many of them in India, will remain shackled to the existing system of rigged rules and double standards in trade rules following the suspension of the Doha round of development trade talks, says a press release by British charity Oxfam.

25.07.2006 After the collapse of world trade talks in Geneva, ActionAid, an international development agency, sees new opportunities to create a people-friendly future for fair trade. Read press release and a backgrounder from ActionAid India on the failed WTO talks.

24.07.2006 Bio diesel blends are driving buses in many Indian states like Haryana, Karnataka and Pune. As bio diesel becomes the buzzword and corporates rush to develop jatropha and oilseed plantations, experts warn of adverse effects on biodiversity and food security.

23.07.2006 from Mur Crusto eco-farm blog:
Do Mediterranean temperatures in north Wales mean global warming is here? Oh, and thank goodness for all that rain... when it comes.

20.07.2006 The Coca-Cola company has severely polluted groundwater around its bottling plant in Plachimada in the south Indian state of Kerala, says a new report Indian NGOs - The Hazards Centre and the People's Science Institute - that was released in New Delhi on Wednesday.

19.07.2006 In the recent past, intellectual patent laws, copyright regimes and trademarks have suddenly pervaded many spheres of existence. While they are discussed and debated at "intellectual " "scientific" and "business forums", they have an impact at every level. With rapid globalization this impact is likely to spread wider and deeper. This paper tries to examine the effect of such regimes on biodiversity related knowledge systems and possible ways of creating open knowledge systems, which would genuinely benefit the poor and the marginalised.

18.07.2006 “We do not buy seeds from the market because we suspect they may be contaminated with genetically engineered or terminator seeds,” says Paramma, a Dalit woman in village Pyalaram, near the town of Zaheerabad, about 110 kms north-west of the high-tech city of Hyderabad.

11.07.2006 A expropriação das terras dos camponeses e o abandono da produção têm sido algumas das principais realidades apresentadas durante o I Fórum Social Caribe, que foi realizado até este domingo, 09, na Martinica.