Development Report #15: A bitter harvest: Farmer suicide in India
January 2007
Bryan Newman, BA
Asian Studies
University of North Carolina
Alongside India’s tremendous middle class growth and the much-celebrated boom of its IT sector, a quiet emergency of debt-driven suicide has taken hold in the countryside. It is estimated that between 1993 and 2003, as many as 100,000 indebted Indian farmers took their own lives. Many of these farmers died consuming the very same pesticides they had bought to use on their fields.
Friends of the Earth
Friends of the Earth Anti-GE Campaign at
http://www.foe.co.uk/campaigns/real_food/index.html
Everyone should have access to real food that is fresh, affordable, locally produced, free from pesticide residues, provides a fair income to farmers, and is free from genetically modified ingredients.
Council for Responsible Genetics
The Council for Responsible Genetics fosters public debate about the social, ethical and environmental implications of genetic technologies. www.gene-watch.org
Postcards from the Heartland - Part 3
A Local Revolution
by Ingrid Evjen-Elias
In the third installment of the Postcards from the Heartland series, Food First intern Ingrid Evjen-Elias chronicles what she learned during her 500-mile bike trip through the American Midwest about the troubles facing small farmers and their innovation.
Read Part I and Part II of the series.
www.gmcontaminationregister.org
GeneWatch UK and Greenpeace have launched an on-line, searchable web site that gives details of all the known cases of GM contamination of food, feed, seed and wild plants that have taken place worldwide
Ten reasons why biotechnology will not ensure food security, protect the environment and reduce poverty in the developing world
Miguel A. Altieri, University of California, Berkeley and
Peter Rosset, Food First/Institute for Food and Development Policy, Oakland, California
October 1999
This article appeared in: Sierra Magazine
(Also available en español)
Greenpeace
Greenpeace is a non-profit organisation, with a presence in 40 countries across Europe, the Americas, Asia and the Pacific.
As a global organisation, Greenpeace focuses on the most crucial worldwide threats to our planet's biodiversity and environment.
GMO Free Mendocino County
Website for the historic Measure H campaign which passed in March 2004, making Mendocino County the first in the U.S. to ban GMOs.
GMO Free Alameda County
GMO Free Alameda County is a community group working to protect the county’s agriculture, environment, and private property from genetic contamination and to safeguard resident’s health and the economy from the ill effects of genetically modified organisms. Our immediate goal is to pass legislation prohibiting the propagation, cultivation, raising or growing of genetically engineered agricultural crops in Alameda County.