Why are Indian farmers killing themselves in record numbers?

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For more background read Food First's Development Report, A Bitter Harvest.

Focus on the Global South, Authors include Dorothy Grace Guerrero, Jacques-chai Chomthongdi, Joseph Purugganan, Mary Ann Manahan, and Nicola Bullard

This report is a response to Rio+20.

Dr Eva Sirinathsinghji, Published by ISIS, June 13, 2012

June 13, 2012

Two key Farm Bill votes – on the Senate floor and in the House Agricultural Committee – will take place in the next several days. Will you take action with us today, and send a message to Congress that we need U.S. farm policy to address the underlying problems of the global food system?

Report from Via Campesina, South Asia, June 3, 2012
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By Dan Imhoff and Michael Dimock, LA Times editorial, June 8, 2012
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Published by the Union of Concerned Scientists, May 10, 2012
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High and Dry is the third in a series of reports highlighting genetic engineering’s limitations and demonstrating the importance of increasing public investment in more effective—but often neglected—agricultural technologies. The first two reports in the series are Failure to Yield and No Sure Fix.

By Ian Scoones, first published in Future-Agricultures.org, May 24, 2012

By Eric Holt-Giménez, originally published by Huffington Post, May 23, 2012