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Navdanya Monitors progress of Bhutan's Transition to Organic

Dr. Vinod Bhatt additional Director of Navdanya was on his tour to Bhutan for followup and monitoring of the progress of the Samdrup Jonkhar Initiative (SJI) of Bhutan for 100 % transition of Bhutan to Organic.

It was nice and productive trip of Dr. Bhatt to Bhutan. During this visit Dr. Bhatt not only helped SJI to create the structure but also guided their research and monitoring team and also helped SJI in making future plan and strategy. SJI has a new programme Director Mr. Tchewang...

CONSUMERS & REGULATION: With GMO food labels still missing in ther USA, look for the opposite

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WITH GMO LABELS STILL MISSING, LOOK FOR THE OPPOSITE

The White House is 313 miles from my Brooklyn neighborhood, but in early October, 50 or so people set off walking there, as part of the Right2Know campaign. Along the way they were joined by hundreds of others, and rallying in Washington, D.C., Oct. 16, they called on regulators to insist that genetically modified or engineered foods/organisms (known as GEs, or GMOs) be labeled as such, and for President Obama to keep his 2007...

Navdanya joins movement in Nepal to stop Monsanto

Report: Anti-Monsanto Protest at the US EmbassySilent Protest in front of US Embassy/USAID office in Maharajgung, Kathmandu

Date of the protest: 25th November 2011

Time of the protest: 3:30 pm to 5:30 pm

Demand of the protest: Transparency and Dialogue: Demand USAID and the Ministry of Agriculture and Cooperatives to release documents and details on the proposed seed program.

Ultimate demand: Demand USAID and Ministry of Agriculture and Cooperatives to cancel the proposed “hybrid maize...

Corporate Hijack of Retail

On November 24, 2011, which was the third day of Parliamentary dead lock on issues of rising prices and neo- liberal economic policies that had created a severe economic crisis for the majority of Indians, the Government announced 51% Foreign Direct Investment (FDI) in multi-brand retail. In other words, opening the door to retail giants like Walmart to devastate the Indian retail economy as they have destroyed every economy where they have entered. In effect, the Government was saying to...

MONSANTO’S SEED MOU WITH RAJASTHAN AGRICULTURAL UNIVERSITIES CANCELLED

As announced by Dainik Bhaskar on November 8, 2011, The MOU’s of Monsanto and other Seed Companies with Rajasthan Agricultural Universities have been cancelled

Under pressure of the Prime Minister’s Office (which in turn was under the pressure of the White House because of signing the U.S – India Agriculture Agreement, on the board of which sits Monsanto) the States were signing MOU’s with seed corporations to privatise our rich and diverse genetic heritage. The Government of...