It’s all about #seeds. A centuries old tree, a field full of crops, or a fresh sapling; all of them start with a seed. The fight to control food production is a fight to own the seed. One of the many problems with genetically modified (GM) crops is that farmers don’t...
###Coal mining corporations, with help from governments, continue aquire precious, even ancient #forests either forcefully or through manipulation of forest and land right laws in developing countries. They offer hundreds and thousands of dollars to forest dependent...
When we think of farmers, we tend to think of men, but the reality is that at least 50% of all the world’s food is produced by women. In one of the more remote areas of #Odisha, eastern India live small communities of subsistence farmers, who, over the last few years...
“One who doesn’t keep seed is not a farmer,” says Adolfo a progressive farmer in #El Salvador. Adolfo is possibly one of the most dynamic, progressive and positive farmers in his district. Faced with a changing climate, he has begun to plant over 60...
The initial hype about the success of the first #Green Revolution in #India saw farmers everywhere in the country rushing to buy more chemical fertilisers. The government too kept subsidizing fertilisers, pesticides, herbicides and all types of chemical concoctions...
