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The Solution

Topic | April 23, 2010 at 12:07

Genetic Engineering. Corporate control of people's food. Over reliance on pesticides and herbicides are not the solutions. So what is? Ecological Farming. It's safe. It's doable. And it's happening now. Help us support farming for the future.

Thirsty coal poses risk to India's farmers

Feature story | August 7, 2012 at 12:00

Farmers in India's Vidarbha region are struggling with drought and limited access to irrigation while plans by India's government to build 71 new coal-fired power plants will place an extra strain on water resources.

Farming Solutions site launched

Feature story | April 8, 2002 at 0:00

Farming Solutions is a new web site that shows how the world can combat hunger and achieve food security using environmentally-sound farming practises that are available now, but are too-often overlooked.

Bayer pulls out of India

Feature story | November 15, 2004 at 0:00

Bayer has pulled out of GE research in India after sustained pressure from Greenpeace; this is the biotech giant's third defeat this year proving just how unsustainable and unwanted GE agriculture is.

Communications between Bayer and Greenpeace India.

Publication | November 15, 2004 at 0:00

Bayer has pulled out of research in India after sustained pressure from Greenpeace India.Bayer conceded that ALL its projects on genetically engineered (GE) crops have been "discontinued" in a this letter sent by Aloke V. Pradhan, head of...

Greenpeace reveals Biotech giant Monsanto application for global pig patent

Press release | August 2, 2005 at 0:00

Greenpeace researchers have uncovered patent application from the biotech giant Monsanto which, if granted, would give the company world-wide control over breeding of pigs and their off spring. Greenpeace warns that Monsanto's aggressive patent...

Feeding animals or feeding ourselves?

Blog entry by Reyes Tirado | February 12, 2013 2 comments

As a mostly-vegetarian scientist and smallholding farmer, it was my new challenge to consider the role of animals in an ecological farming system aimed at both protecting nature and feeding the world equitably. Inspired by the...

Did horsemeat leave a bad taste in your mouth?

Blog entry by Lasse Bruun | February 19, 2013 4 comments

Over the past couple of weeks the 'horsemeat scandal' has topped news headlines, revolted consumers and forced retailers and producers to come clean and revise their supply chains. This is firstly a story of mislabelling, but...

Fences don't stop contamination, but they do stop consultation

Feature story | October 22, 2002 at 0:00

Jim Thomas woke up to another sleepy day in Brussels, but the police were up long before. The day’s mission – protecting the powerful GE seed industry from protestors while they plot the contamination of the European food supply. Jim tells the...

Greenpeace and Farmers join forces to protect our food from Biotech Industry buy-out

Press release | April 5, 2005 at 0:00

The genetic engineering (GE) industry could come a step closer to "owning" our food, through a disastrous decision by the European Patent Office due tomorrow. Greenpeace and one of the biggest farming organisations in Argentina are warning that a...

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