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EJF: Why We Need to Clean Up Cotton
Cotton Subsidies and Cotton Up to 99% of the world's cotton farmers live and work in the developing world where cotton is a smallholder crop grown by the rural poor. Cotton accounts for around 40% of West Africa's exports, yet subsidies to northern cotton farmers ...
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EJF: Press Release - The Deadly Chemicals in Cotton
Together developing country farmers are responsible for producing 75% of global cotton production. The primary product manufactured from cotton ...
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Genetic Engineering - Cotton
Andra Predesh:Return to organic cotton & avoid the Bt cotton trap No more debt, pesticides and suicides for Indian cotton farmers who avoid Bt-cotton and regain livelihood, health, ... Cotton Beats Bt Cotton in India Organic cotton is incomparably superior to genetically modified Bt cotton Rhea Gala 5th August 2005 India's Bt Cotton Fraud Monsanto rides roughshod over Indian cotton farmers ...
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Picking Cotton Carefully
Endosulfan. Organic cotton better for farmers than GM cotton There is hope for African cotton farmers determined to grow organic cotton, as many African countries are fighting to remain GM-free under intense pressure [6]. Mali is producing 1 500 tonnes of organic cotton ...
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Monsanto's Gene-Altered Cotton in Asia Developing Pest Resistance from Mealy Bugs & Bollworms
B.S. Duggal, Additional Director, Haryana Agriculture, says Bt cotton is safe only from bollworm and not mealy bug. What is worrying the cotton farmers is the early onset of monsoon. Rains at this time of the year is good for other crops, including bajra, sugarcane, paddy and pulses, but not for cotton ...
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Indian Farmers Moving Toward Organic Farming & Shunning Genetically Engineered Crops
India's 17 million cotton farmers were facing. Many of the farmers had not been growing cotton as a cash crop for very long. In the late ... exporter of commodities, including cotton. At first, cotton farmers did well. They got high yields and enjoyed a real increase in income. But then problems arose. The hybrid cotton proved susceptible to pests and ...
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MOVEMENT TO STOP THE GENOCIDE OF FARMERS
Dr. Shiva released the fourth edition of the Navdanya report on the farmers suicides and seed monopolies. The first edition was issued in 1998, when farmers suicides started in the cotton ... organisations. The Yatra will create awareness among farmers on GMO’s, corporate farming and seed monopolies. Yatris will encourage farmers to boycott Bt. Cotton, give up seeds of suicides and ...
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STATEMENT FROM FARMERS ORGANISATIONS ON THE SEED SOVEREIGNTY AND THE 3RD PATENT AMENDMENT ACT, 2004
MNC’s monopolies on what they have stolen from our farmers. 5. Farmers organizations, both political and non-political give a call to all their members to ... GE Goliath Indian Children's Action Plan for a Better Future Permission to Commercialize Bt Cotton Public Hearing On Violation Of Constitutional Rights And Repression Of Tribals In Bastar Tribals of ...
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US farmers plant less GE crops
Department of Agriculture survey released on 24th of March reveal that farmers bought significantly less GE seed this year than last. There is ... genetically engineered Bt variety, down from 25% percent in 1999. US farmers have seen prices for GE corn drop and $200 million ... sown to Dupont's conventionally bred STS soybeans). Plantings of biotech cotton are also down from 55% percent last year to 48%. ...
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RE: Please stop hurting family farmers and force-feeding us GE foods
GE-Free food for themselves and for their families. Family farmers have the right to produce safe, sustainable food without fear of intimidation and litigation ... small family farmers. Stop force-feeding untested and unlabeled genetically engineered foods on consumers. Stop using billions of dollars of taxpayers' money to subsidize genetically engineered crops--cotton, soybeans, corn ...
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