New Postings to this Site
Deadly gift from Monsanto to India
To follow up on your articles, I enclose photographs of mealy bugs infested cotton plants in the demonstration plots of different seed companies in Vidarbha: Ganga Kavari, Paras Bbhrahma, and Banny. All of the plots have the Bollgard label. These mealy bugs have never been in our region on any plants before Bt cotton was introduced.
Ram Kalaspurkar, 12th May 2008 |
Full House for Food Futures Now
It was the warmest day of the year so far and inside the sumptuously decorated Jubilee Room in the House of Commons there was barely standing room. The capacity audience were gathered for the launch of the much acclaimed ISIS report.
Sam Burcher, 1st May 2008 |
Mass Protests against GM Crops in India
As India edges closer to what is probably the last year of field trials for Bt Brinjal (eggplant, aubergine) before commercial approval may be granted, large scale resistance has been building up all over the country
Kavitha Kurunganti, 30th April 2008 |
Agrobacterium & Morgellons Disease, A GM Connection?
Preliminary findings suggest a link between Morgellons Disease and Agrobacterium, a soil bacterium extensively manipulated and used in making GM crops; has genetic engineering created a new epidemic?
Dr. Mae-Wan Ho and Prof. Joe Cummins , 28th April 2008 |
Saving the Honeybee Through Organic Farming
The decline of the honeybee attracted worldwide attention in 2007. Investigations carried out by the Institute of Science in Society implicated a synergistic interaction between the recent widespread use of new pesticides (including Bt toxin from GM crops) and fungal infections
Prof. Joe Cummins, 25th April 2008 |
Study Based on Farmers’ Experience Exposes Risks of GM Crops
The first study of its kind in North America, possibly in the world, shows how the risks of GM technology outweigh the benefits especially in the longer term.
Dr. Mae-Wan Ho, 24th April 2008 |
“GM-Free Organic Agriculture to Feed the World”
International Panel of 400 Agricultural Scientists Call for Fundamental Change in Farming Practice
Dr. Mae-Wan Ho, 18th April 2008 |
GM Failures Continue
The GM industry has been ailing at least as far back as 2005, but kept alive
by an aggressive campaign of disinformation
gmwatch.org, 16th April 2008 |
Announcing Food without Fossil Fuels Now Launch Conference
Food without Fossil Fuels Now - Launch Conference in UK Parliament
ISIS, 14th April 2008 |
Let the World Learn from North American Farmers' Experience with GMOs
Prof. E. Ann Clark reviews the real scientific surveys that contradict every claim made by British academics regarding the benefits of GM crops in their government-funded ‘study’
Prof. E. Ann Clark, 11th April 2008 |
Food Without Fossil Fuels Now
Invited Keynote Lecture, 2nd Mediterranean Conference on Organic Agriculture in Croatia, Organic Agriculture – Contribution to Sustainable Ecosystem, 2-6 April 2008, Dubrovnik University. Dubrovnik, Croatia
Dr. Mae-Wan Ho, 7th April 2008 |
World Bank Climate Funds May Undermine ClimateTalks
NGOs concerned over the World Bank’s proposed US$7-12 billion portfolio of climate investment funds
Celine Tan, 2nd April 2008 |
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Food Futures Now
*Organic *Sustainable *Fossil Fuel Free
Mae-Wan Ho
Sam Burcher, Lim Li Ching & others
Only Organic Agriculture Can Feed the World
How organic agriculture
and localised food (and energy) systems can feed the world, compensate for all
greenhouse gas emissions due to human activities, and free us from fossil fuels
“Most compelling! A succinct and pithy appraisal of the current state of the planet - and just the right resolutions.”
Sir Julian Rose , a leading exponent of organic farming, Chair of the Association of Rural Businesses
“This excellent and timely report makes clear how vital it is that we make the right choices on how to produce and distribute our food in tackling climate change, and what those choices should be.”
Dr. Caroline Lucas , Member of the European Parliament
Highlights
- The largest single study in the world in Ethiopia shows composting gives 30 percent more crop yields than chemical fertilizers
- Scientists, too, find organic out yields conventional agriculture by a factor of 1.3, and green manure alone could provide all nitrogen needs
- Local farmers in Sahel defied the dire predictions of scientists and policy-makers by greening the desert and creating a haven of trees
- Organic urban agriculture feeds Cuba without fossil fuels
- Organic agriculture and localised food systems mitigate 30 percent of the world's greenhouse gas emissions and save one-sixth of energy consumption
- Anaerobic digestion of farm and food wastes in zero-emission food and energy farms could boost total energy savings to 49.7 percent and greenhouse gas savings to 54 percent
- Cleaner, safer environment, greater biodiversity, more nutritious healthier foods
- Higher income and independence for farmers, more employment opportunities
- Regenerate local economies, revitalize local, indigenous knowledge, create social wealth.
For a prewiew of the contents click here
You can order the DVD here
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