As a direct result of sanctions on Russia, there is an overabundance of fruits and vegetables in France, Spain, Poland, and elsewhere in Europe. Basic law of supply and demand dictates prices of…
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On 15 August, India will mark its 67th anniversary of independence from Britain. It may seem strange to some that a nation would publicly celebrate its independence while at the same time it less publicly…
Losing the will to live London : India has the largest number of smallholder farmers in the World, 600 million by some estimates. From this army of workers one impoverished desperate man, or indeed…
The widely held belief is that genetically modified ‘terminator seeds’ are not available on the commercial market anywhere. Since 2001, there has been a de facto worldwide moratorium on the use of terminator…
Monsanto recently published the company’s “2011 Corporate Social Responsibility and Sustainability Report” to further the illusion it is actually improving agriculture and sustainability, and by extension, helping humanity and our environment. Aside from raking in…
Market pressure drove researchers to abandon biotech pig ‘contending’ to be first approved GM meat on consumer plates. In a victory against biotech, Canada’s Ontario Pork has announced its decision to cut funding and stop…
Bees swarm around 20-year-old famer Lv Kongjiang, from Central China’s Hunan province, during a contest in Longhui county in Hunan, July 16, 2011. Standing on an electronic scale, Lv was competing with another famer, 42-year-old…