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1. What is Soil: (living soil); ... fungi. One tea spoon of living soil contains 1 billion bacteria which translate to 1 tonne per acre. One square cubic metre of soil contains 1000 earth worms, 50,000 insects, 12 trillion roundworms. Humus ...; Created on 25 January 2018
2. Avoid ‘miracle’ rice, just eat a carrot!: (News); ... is funded by Bill Gates, just like the failed golden rice experiment. Read More ...; Created on 02 October 2016
3. The great seed piracy: (News); ... like Bill Gates, the “richest man in the world”. When the Green Revolution was pushed in India and Mexico, farmers’ seeds were “rounded-up” and locked in international institutions, which used these seeds ...; Created on 02 October 2016
4. GMO Banana Campaign: (Campaigns); ... ,biodiverse alternatives are multifold. View More GMO banana booklet No GMO Banana Republic - Stop Banana Biopiracy An Open Letter to QUT's Dr James Dale, the Bill and Melind ...; Created on 26 February 2015
5. Living Soil: (living soil); ... billions of soil organisms create soil fertility. Their well being is vital to human well being. Looked at from this point of view, the immediate aim of fertilization is not to increase yields and fertilize ...; Created on 31 December 2014
6. Why is Bill Gates backing GMO red banana 'biopiracy'?: (News); The Gates Foundation has sunk $15 million into developing GMO 'super bananas' with high levels of pre-Vitamin A, writes Adam Breasley. But the project is using 'stolen' genes from a Micronesian banana ...; Created on 27 November 2014
7. No GMO Banana Republic - Stop Banana Biopiracy: (Campaigns); An Open Letter to QUT's Dr James Dale, the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation and the Convention on Biological Diversity. Dear Dr Dale, QUT, Gates Foundation and CBD Delegates, The Gates Foundation ha ...; Created on 12 October 2014
8. For kids, here’s a super banana that may work wonders: (News); ... populations with nutritionally rewarding food,” project leader professor James Dale said. The Queensland University of Technology (QUT) project, backed by the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation, hopes ...; Created on 11 October 2014
9. Navdanya launches No to GMO Bananas Campaign: (News); ... Ethics, Australia, launched the campaign “No to GMO bananas”and the associated “creation myth” that Bill Gates and James Dale are imposing by claiming their GMO bananas are an “innovation” to save Indian ...; Created on 11 October 2014
10. Seeds Must be in the Hands of Farmers: (News); ... is no fan of the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation either, which she accuses of pushing a vision of agriculture based on GMOs and the use of fertilisers. The foundation, which supports the Guardian’s Global ...; Created on 10 October 2014
11. STATEMENT by HIS EXCELLENCY JIGMI Y. THINLEY PRIME MINISTER OF THE KINGDOM OF BHUTAN: (News); ... a single inch of topsoil to form, yet the planet is losing 24 billion tons of it every year. But it is not only erosion and outright soil loss that threaten the world’s food security. Land is being severely ...; Created on 10 October 2014