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  • “STOP GM TRIALS; MONSANTO,..
“STOP GM TRIALS; MONSANTO, QUIT INDIA”: Farmers protest at Monsanto’s GM Corn trial in Kolhapur

“STOP GM TRIALS; MONSANTO, QUIT INDIA”: Farmers protest at Monsanto’s GM Corn trial...

Press release | March 23, 2009 at 5:30

KOLHAPUR, India — On “Shaheed Diwas” marked across India in the honour of the martyrdom of revolutionary freedom fighters Bhagat Singh, Sukhdev and Rajguru, hundreds of farmers from all across Maharashtra came to Kolhapur to protest against the...

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  • One for the record books
One for the record books

One for the record books

Feature story | March 16, 2007 at 15:10

JAKARTA, Indonesia — Indonesia destroys about 51 square kilometers of forests every day, equivalent to 300 football fields every hour -- a figure, which should earn the country a place in the Guinness Book of World Records as the world's...

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  • Sir, Isn't Your solution..
Sir, Isn't Your solution the Problem?

Sir, Isn't Your solution the Problem?

Feature story | October 15, 2005 at 5:30

BANGALORE, India — Ask the leaders of world, if you have all the 'solutions' then why would more people in the world go hungry today than 20 years ago?

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  • Jaguars roar into action
Jaguars roar into action

Jaguars roar into action

Feature story | September 5, 2005 at 17:45

SALTA PROVINCE, Argentina — In Argentina precious forest is being bulldozed at a rate of a soccer pitch area every three minutes - all for soya crops to feed pigs and chickens in Europe and China. We are out to stop this destruction with the...

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  • If USA Knows, Why Don't We?
If USA Knows, Why Don't We?

If USA Knows, Why Don't We?

Feature story | February 25, 2004 at 5:30

NEW DELHI, India — Greenpeace stonewalled by DBT while India remains silent at Malaysia on protecting biodiversity. New Delhi/Kuala Lumpur, February 25, 2004: Even as Indian representatives maintained a stoic silence on the issue of protecting...

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  • Swaminathan panel..
Swaminathan panel recommendations on biotechnology flawed and dangerous

Swaminathan panel recommendations on biotechnology flawed and dangerous

Feature story | May 6, 2004 at 5:30

BANGALORE, India — 6 May, 2004, Bangalore: Criticizing the sweeping recommendations of the ‘Task Force on Application of Biotechnology in Agriculture’, Greenpeace has stated that the report assumes that genetically engineered crops are the way...

Genetically engineered Bt brinjal and the implications for plant biodiversity - revisited

Genetically engineered Bt brinjal and the implications for plant biodiversity - revisited

Publication | May 3, 2012 at 11:00

Concerns over the commercial release of genetically modified (GM), Bt brinjal, also called aubergine or talong, relate to biosafety. One major concern is the potential for transgene flow from Bt brinjal to wild, weedy and cultivated relatives. As...

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Greenpeace staff member wins alternative Nobel Prize

Greenpeace staff member wins alternative Nobel Prize

Feature story | October 14, 2009 at 1:24

KINSHASA, Congo, The Democratic Republic of The — We are thrilled to announce that one of our staff members, René Ngongo, has today been named a recipient of the 2009 Right Livelihood award.

The Story So Far

The Story So Far

Page | October 5, 2004 at 18:25

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GM issues that need to be addressed

GM issues that need to be addressed

Page | August 10, 2004 at 12:56

Picking Cotton: The choice between organic and genetically-engineered cotton for...

Publication | June 14, 2010 at 20:29

There is widespread propaganda that genetically-engineered (GE) crops provide the silver bullet for poverty and hunger eradication. On the other hand, recent global analyses have concluded that ecological farming - using low-cost,...

Subsidising Food Crisis

Publication | July 6, 2009 at 18:22

After years of indiscriminate use, synthetic fertilisers are currently hampering the increase of food production in the country.

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  • Greenpeace India launches..

Greenpeace India launches “Living Soils” campaign; call to save soils from harmful...

Press release | August 3, 2010 at 18:01

Guwahati, India — Greenpeace India today launched “Living Soils”, a nationwide campaign with a call to implement Government policies to save soils from the harmful impacts of chemical fertilizers. This campaign assumes significance in the context...

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  • Draft Marine Fisheries Bill..

Draft Marine Fisheries Bill needs major revision, says Greenpeace

Press release | January 28, 2010 at 17:30

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  • When the thermostat goes..

When the thermostat goes haywire

Feature story | August 28, 2009 at 5:30

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  • Global Warming will push..

Global Warming will push India into reverse, as global leadership fades says new report

Press release | November 19, 2007 at 5:30

NEW DELHI, India — Biggest study yet from a unique coalition of major development and environment groups reveals scale of climate impacts in India - immediate action needed before India goes ' Up in Smoke'

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  • International Conference..

International Conference Delegates Confirm Greenpeace Stand: GMOs Are Out of Control

Press release | August 12, 2004 at 5:30

BANGALORE, India — .

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  • China Tightens Control Over..

China Tightens Control Over Genetically Modified Organisms.

Press release | June 8, 2001 at 5:30

NEW DELHI, India — Only a day after Greenpeace exposed the illegal entry of Genetically Modified (GM) food in the Indian market (1), China has decided to tighten control over GMO s by limiting their release to the environment and launching a...

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  • Greenpeace India’s first..

Greenpeace India’s first consumer outreach event of the year jointly organized with...

Feature story | January 11, 2004 at 5:30

BANGALORE, India — Food for Thought

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  • Farmers Scientists and..

Farmers Scientists and Consumers says No to Bt Brinjal

Press release | January 27, 2010 at 12:44

CHANDIGARH, India — Farmers Unions, Scientists and Consumer groups came together to say a firm No to Bt Brinjal. This was at a press conference organised by the GM free India Coalition at the Press Club today. This was in anticipation of the...

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  • Experts urge Government to..
Experts urge Government to address humanitarian crisis in Sundarbans

Experts urge Government to address humanitarian crisis in Sundarbans

Press release | July 17, 2009 at 15:52

KOLKATA, India — In view of the massive humanitarian crisis in the aftermath of cyclone Aila in the Sunderbans, experts from the field of oceanography and social science, representatives from a local voluntary group and Greenpeace demanded...

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  • No need for condoms – GE..
No need for condoms – GE corn can do the job

No need for condoms – GE corn can do the job

Feature story | January 12, 2009 at 5:30

New research from Austria shows that a commercial strain of Monsanto-made GE corn causes mice to have fewer and weaker babies. What is this doing to human fertility?

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  • Greenpeace points to the..
Greenpeace points to the problem: Thermal Power Plants lead to Climate Chaos

Greenpeace points to the problem: Thermal Power Plants lead to Climate Chaos

Press release | October 11, 2007 at 5:30

KOLKATA, India — Greenpeace activists today scaled a 250 ft smokestack spewing carbon dioxide at the Kolaghat coal fired power station to paint the message "SMOKING KILLS". No, Greenpeace hasn't embarked on an anti smoking drive, nor are they...

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  • Greenpeace sting exposes..
Greenpeace sting exposes pirate loggers

Greenpeace sting exposes pirate loggers

Feature story | January 5, 2006 at 17:25

How do you get a shipment of illegal logs out of the Amazon and to market in São Paolo? A team of Greenpeace activists risked their lives to go undercover to show -- for the first time -- exactly how it's done.

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  • More heavy rain, predicted
More heavy rain, predicted

More heavy rain, predicted

Feature story | July 30, 2007 at 14:10

Computer models of how our world will react to climate change have long predicted extreme and shifting weather patterns. More heavy rains in some areas, crippling drought in others. A new study, published this week in the journal Nature,...

Greenpeace Sailing Vessel Rainbow Warrior

Greenpeace Sailing Vessel Rainbow Warrior

Page | November 8, 2004 at 13:27

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  • GEAC fails the nation

GEAC fails the nation

Press release | October 14, 2009 at 5:30

NEW DELHI, India — GEAC considered the approval of Bt Brinjal, India's first genetically modified food crop for public consumption.

Impact of Water Resources Projects-Case Study Wardha

Publication | August 8, 2012 at 18:30

Vidarbha region in Maharastra has a long history of under development. Many measures to offset the agrarian crisis in the region like the Prime Minister's debt relief assistance in 2006 has focussed extensively on developing assured irrigation...

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  • Mumbai kids to Hillary “SOS..
Mumbai kids to Hillary “SOS - Stop Climate Change”

Mumbai kids to Hillary “SOS - Stop Climate Change”

Feature story | July 18, 2009 at 5:30

MUMBAI, India — Children from the Bal Jivan Trust, who were visiting the Greenpeace Climate Rescue Station on Carter Road today, had a message for Hillary Clinton, Secretary of State, United States of America, asking that the world’s biggest...

Golden Rice

Page | October 31, 2013 at 15:39

The so-called 'Golden' rice is a genetically engineered (GE) rice variety that has been developed by industry to produce pro-vitamin A (beta-carotene). Its proponents have hyped GE 'Golden' rice as a high-tech, quick-fix solution to vitamin A...

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  • ‘It is time for us to move..

‘It is time for us to move against the political system and save our planet’

Feature story | September 29, 2009 at 5:30

Climate, it seems, waits for no one. So it was with filmmaker Shekhar Kapur, who was a Greenpeace volunteer for two days when he flew from sea level to the Himalayas and back, warning world leaders on climate change all the while. From the...

Water for farmers

Page | July 24, 2013 at 13:59

It was Maharashtra’s worst drought in 40 years. For long the state had a unique water policy which gave preference to industries over agriculture. Millions of cubic meters of water meant for irrigation has been allocated for thermal power plants...

Busting The “Pesticides Are A Necessary Evil” Myth

Busting The “Pesticides Are A Necessary Evil” Myth

Blog entry by Shivani Shah | April 8, 2017

The UN Calls The Bluff on Pesticides’ Industry I am relieved and yet I find myself furious...ly typing away as I repeat what ecologists and sustainable agriculture experts have been trying to say for a very very long time. And what...

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  • Veteran organic agriculture..
Veteran organic agriculture scientist Mr

Veteran organic agriculture scientist Mr

Image | November 16, 2006 at 11:18

Veteran organic agriculture scientist Mr.Nammalwar releases Greenpeace report, Future of Rice 2006 at a press conference in Chennai on 15 October. To his left is Tamil Nadu Farmers Association President, Mr. Chellumuthu.

Shri SK Gautam

Shri SK Gautam

Image | October 26, 2009 at 17:17

Shri SK Gautam, Secretary, Department of Food Security and Agriculture Development inaugurating the consultation. The Government of Sikkim, farmers and other stakeholders of Agriculture in the State came together today to urge the Union...

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  • Veteran organic agriculture..
Veteran organic agriculture scientist Mr

Veteran organic agriculture scientist Mr

Image | November 16, 2006 at 11:18

Veteran organic agriculture scientist Mr.Nammalwar releases Greenpeace report, Future of Rice 2006 at a press conference in Chennai on 15 October. To his left is Tamil Nadu Farmers Association President, Mr. Chellumuthu.

Shri SK Gautam

Shri SK Gautam

Image | October 26, 2009 at 17:17

Shri SK Gautam, Secretary, Department of Food Security and Agriculture Development inaugurating the consultation. The Government of Sikkim, farmers and other stakeholders of Agriculture in the State came together today to urge the Union...

Shri SK Gautam

Shri SK Gautam

Image | October 26, 2009 at 17:17

Shri SK Gautam, Secretary, Department of Food Security and Agriculture Development inaugurating the consultation. The Government of Sikkim, farmers and other stakeholders of Agriculture in the State came together today to urge the Union...

Veteran organic agriculture scientist Mr

Veteran organic agriculture scientist Mr

Image | November 16, 2006 at 11:18

Veteran organic agriculture scientist Mr.Nammalwar releases Greenpeace report, Future of Rice 2006 at a press conference in Chennai on 15 October. To his left is Tamil Nadu Farmers Association President, Mr. Chellumuthu.

  • Anusha Rizvi talks about..
Anusha Rizvi talks about Living Soils

Anusha Rizvi talks about Living Soils

Video | February 7, 2011 at 16:04

Anusha Rizvi, director of Peepli Live, talking about "Living Soils" Campaign, environmental issues and activism after launching the Living Soils report at Constitution Club, New Delhi on 3 February 2011

  • Anusha Rizvi talks about..
Anusha Rizvi talks about Living Soils

Anusha Rizvi talks about Living Soils

Video | February 7, 2011 at 16:04

Anusha Rizvi, director of Peepli Live, talking about "Living Soils" Campaign, environmental issues and activism after launching the Living Soils report at Constitution Club, New Delhi on 3 February 2011

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  • Three ‘cows’ and three ‘sheep’
Three ‘cows’ and three ‘sheep’

Three ‘cows’ and three ‘sheep’

Image | June 13, 2006 at 14:43

Three ‘cows’ and three ‘sheep’, on behalf of 1600 dead cattle, sought an audience with the Minister of Agriculture Mr. Sharad Pawar.

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  • Three ‘cows’ and three ‘sheep’
Three ‘cows’ and three ‘sheep’

Three ‘cows’ and three ‘sheep’

Image | June 13, 2006 at 5:30

Three ‘cows’ and three ‘sheep’, on behalf of 1600 dead cattle, sought an audience with the Minister of Agriculture Mr. Sharad Pawar.

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  • Three ‘cows’ and three ‘sheep’
Three ‘cows’ and three ‘sheep’

Three ‘cows’ and three ‘sheep’

Image | June 13, 2006 at 14:43

Three ‘cows’ and three ‘sheep’, on behalf of 1600 dead cattle, sought an audience with the Minister of Agriculture Mr. Sharad Pawar.

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  • Three ‘cows’ and three ‘sheep’
Three ‘cows’ and three ‘sheep’

Three ‘cows’ and three ‘sheep’

Image | June 13, 2006 at 5:30

Three ‘cows’ and three ‘sheep’, on behalf of 1600 dead cattle, sought an audience with the Minister of Agriculture Mr. Sharad Pawar.

Anusha Rizvi talks about Living Soils

Anusha Rizvi talks about Living Soils

Video | February 7, 2011 at 16:04

Anusha Rizvi, director of Peepli Live, talking about "Living Soils" Campaign, environmental issues and activism after launching the Living Soils report at Constitution Club, New Delhi on 3 February 2011

Three ‘cows’ and three ‘sheep’

Three ‘cows’ and three ‘sheep’

Image | June 13, 2006 at 14:43

Three ‘cows’ and three ‘sheep’, on behalf of 1600 dead cattle, sought an audience with the Minister of Agriculture Mr. Sharad Pawar.

Three ‘cows’ and three ‘sheep’

Three ‘cows’ and three ‘sheep’

Image | June 13, 2006 at 5:30

Three ‘cows’ and three ‘sheep’, on behalf of 1600 dead cattle, sought an audience with the Minister of Agriculture Mr. Sharad Pawar.

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  • A celebration of soils
A celebration of soils

A celebration of soils

Blog entry by Gopi Krishna | February 7, 2011

Indiscriminate use of chemi cal fertilizers over several decades has been sucking life out of Indian soils, and thereby putting the country’s food security at stake. But the government has continued to mindlessly promote chemical...

When will governments learn that GE crops are uncontrollable?

When will governments learn that GE crops are uncontrollable?

Blog entry by Janet Cotter | June 3, 2013

Shockwaves are being felt across the world's wheat markets following the first-ever discovery of unauthorised genetically engineered wheat growing on a US farm – a development that gives further proof that GE crops cannot be...

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