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FOOD & AGRICULTURE
July 2008	Back to the future, Down to Ear.th Magazine, 01 Jul 2008 Farm differently by Archita Bhatia, Down to Earth Magazine, 01 Jul 2008 Save our Rice by Anitha Pailoor, The Deccan Herald, Bangalore, 01 Jul 2008 June 10 and 12 by Deepa Kozhisseri, Savvy Soumya Misra, Down to Earth Magazine, 01 Jul 2008 Strategies to help the poor, The Hindu, Chennai, 12 Jul 2008 Banks to take Rs 11,000 crore hit in farm loan waiver scheme, The Business Standard, Mumbai, 02 Jul 2008 Duties and duties by Sreelatha Menon, The Business Standard, Mumbai, 13 Jul 2008 Exit policy for farmers by Devinder Sharma, The Deccan Herald, Bangalore, 06 Jul 2008 Planet Burns While G8 Fiddles by Ramesh Jaura, 10 July, 2008 Inter Press Service A new paradigm for farming by Dickson Despommier, MINT, Mumbai, 03 Jul 2008 What a waste by Ravleen Kaur, Down To Earth Magazine, 23 Jul 2008
June 2008	Right to Food versus Right to Profit, Economic & Political Weekly Magazine, 14 Jun 2008 Empty Promises, Down to Earth, Magazine, 16 Jun 2008, A missed opportunity to feed the world, The Independent London, 06 Jun 2008 Virtues of urban agriculture, The Hindu, Chennai, 17 Jun 2008 Fertilising profit, sowing misery, by P. Sainath, The Hindu, Chennai, 16 Jun 2008, Origins of the crisis, The Business Standard, Mumbai, 16 Jun 2008 Farming hits another low, by C Anand Reddy, The Asian Age, Mumbai, 02 June 2008 Continuing violence of Green Revolution, by Dr Vandana Shiva, The Asian Age, Mumbai, 17 Jun 2008 GM concerns in agriculture, The Hindu, Chennai, 11 Jun 2008 Scientists warn against GM foods, by Rashme Sehgal, The Asian Age, Mumbai, 05 Jun 2008 GM brinjals, boon or a curse?, by Eklavya Atray, DNA, Mumbai, 10 June 2008 Sustainable agriculture: A world beyond GM crops, by Devinder Sharma, The Deccan Herald, Bangalore, 20 Jun 2008 Threat to Food Security, by Bharat Dogra, Frontier Magazine, 08 J un 2008
May 2008	Wealth Over Health, Tushar Mittal, Tehelka Magazine, 17 May 2008 $15-20 bn a year needed to deal with food crisis, Stephen Brown and Robin Pomeroy, MINT, Mumbai, 04 Jun 2008 Food warning for Indian children, Damian Grammaticas, BBC News, 13 May 2008 World Bank wants farming to bounce back, Robert Zoellick, The Hindustan Times, New Delhi, 08 May 2008 The Rich Get Hungrier, Amartya Sen, The Times of India, Mumbai, 29 May 2008 Food shortage likely in global rush for biofuel: U.N., John Vidal, The Hindu, Madras, 10 May 2007 Managing Globalisation-The Food Crisis, The Asian Age, Mumbai, 08 May 2008 Why bush is wrong in blaming Indians, Vandana Shiva, The Asian Age, Mumbai, 12 May 2008 Time for better seeds, Bhaskar Dutta, The Telegraph, Calcutta, 07 May 2008 After biofuels, a new culprit that threatens food supplies: fertilizer, Keith Bradsher, MINT, Mumbai, 01 May 2008 How to respond to global food crisis, Arvind Subramanian, The Hindu, Chennai, 19 May 2008 Food crisis: stop digging!, John Hilary, guardian.co.uk, 04 Jun 2008 The World Food Crisis, Fred Magdoff, Analytical Monthly Review, 01 May 2008
April 2008	SC asks committee to study GM crops, The Business Standard, Mumbai, 09 Apr 2008 Supreme Court order on GM food items “a breakthrough”, The Hindu, Chennai, 13 Apr 2008 Uneven Harvest, Mihir Srivastava, Tehelka Magazine, 16 Feb 2008 Curbs again on imported GM food, Chetan Chauhan, The Hindustan Times, New Delhi, 15 Apr 2008 Transparency trial, VIBHA VARSHNEY, Down to Earth, Magazine, 15 Apr 2008
March 2008	Farm distress gets Rs 60,000 cr breather , The Business Standard, Mumbai, 01 Mar 2008, Small farmers greet loan waiver with scepticism, joy, anger, The Business Standard, Mumbai, 05 Mar 2008, Farm loan waiver: a closer look and critique, A. Vaidyanathan, The Hindu, Chennai, 06 Mar 2008 Getting It Right, M K Venu, The Times of India, Mumbai, 06 Mar 2008, Swaminathan hopes Budget marks 'end of farmer suicides', http://www.hindustantimes.com Oh! What a lovely waiver, P. Sainath, The Hindu, Chennai, 10 Mar 2008, Don`t repay loans from `illegal` moneylenders: Pawar to farmers, The Business Standard, Mumbai, 02 Mar 2008, Loan waivers won’t help agriculture, V. Balachandran , The Asian Age, Mumbai, 08 Mar 2008, Loan waiver: Not an election winner, Swaminathan S Anklesaria Aiyar, The Times of India, Mumbai, 09 Mar 2008, 'The farmer is not looking for a free lunch`, The Business Standard, Mumbai, 16 Mar 2008, Government takes baby steps on financial inclusion of the poor, Paromita Shastri, MINT, Mumbai, 01Mar 2008, Will the loan waiver relieve farmer distress?, Makarand Gadgil, The Business Standard,Mumbai, 12 Mar 2008, The Challenge of Agriculture, Arvind Singhal, The Business Standard,Mumbai, 13 Mar 2008, The food economy, Nitin Desai, The Business Standard,Mumbai, 20 Mar 2008, THE AGRARIAN CRISIS, Bhaskar Dutta, The Telegraph, Calcutta, 27 Mar 2008, US attempt for hegemony: Doomsday Seed Vault , Devinder Sharma, The Deccan Herald,Bangalore, 18 Mar 2008 Dancing With Frankenstein , Aruna Rodrigues, Tehelka Magazine, 29 Mar 2008 Seeds of hope , The Hindu, Chennai, 17 Mar 2008 Monsanto clashes with Greenpeace over GM brinjal , Joe C Mathew, The Business Standard,Mumbai, 23 Mar 2008 Clinical trials and the right to information , Sarah Hiddleston, The Hindu, Chennai,25 Mar 2008 Experts see ploy in US' stand on patent issue , C.H. Unnikrishnan, MINT, Mumbai, 20 Mar 2008
February 2008	SC green signal for GM crops' open field trials , The Times of India, Mumbai, 14 Feb 2008 NGOs divided on top court view, C. Anand Reddy, The Asian Age, Mumbai, 18 Feb 2008 Uneven Harvest, Mihir Srivastava, Tehelka Magazine, 16 Feb 2008 Activists promise a GM-Free India, Arkitectindia, 27 Feb 2008 Cloning and GM crops, James E McWilliams, The Deccan Herald, Bangalore, 08 Feb 2008 We are not thrusting Bt seeds on farmers', Hindu, 28.02.2008
January 2008	Agricultural strategy, internal security, The Hindu, Chennai, 01 Jan 2008 Innocent pestilence?,The Week Magazine, 13 Jan 2008 Gameplan Retail,Tehelka Magazine, 19 Jan 2008 Farmers lining up mall, MINT, Mumbai, 04 Jan 2008 'Reserve 50 per cent land, The Deccan Herald, Bangalore, 27 Jan 2008 NBA chief defends GM crops, www.deccan.com, 18 Jan 2008
December 2007	World is running out of food, prices rising, Elisabeth Rosenthal, he Asian Age, Mumbai, 20 Dec 2007 A bad seed in the bag , Debarshi Dasgupta, Outlook Magazine, 03 Dec 2007 Punjab university plays host to pesticide, Savvy Soumya Misra, Down To Earth Magazine, 31 Dec 2007 The farmer must know, Jayati Ghosh, The Asian Age, Mumbai, 10 Dec 2007, "Landlessness true index of Poverty", The Hindu, Chennai, 09 Dec 2007 Kerala saves paddy, T K Devasia, Sahara Time Magazine, 16 Dec 2007
October 2007	India shamed on global hunger , Sonia Sinha, Sahara Time, Magazine, 21Oct 2007 India more famished than Pak, Sutirtho Patranobis, The Hindustan Times, New Delhi, 15 Oct 2007 Unseen realities, The Deccan Herald, Bangalore, 04 Oct 2007 NHRC wants committees to ensure right to food , Devinder Sharma, The Asian Age, Bombay, 17 Oct 2007 Emerging threats to food security, Bharat Dogra,The Deccan Herald, Bangalore, 17 Oct 2007 Instil confidence in the nations food producers, Pandurang Hegde,The Deccan Herald, Bangalore, 16 Oct 2007 Indexing inhumanity, Indian style, P Sainath, The Hindu, Madras, 26 Oct 2007
September 2007	Indian Wheat:, Shantanu Guha Ray, Tehelka Magazine, 22 Sep 2007 Not a grain to spare , M S Swaminathan, The Hindustan Times, New Delhi, 07 Sep 2007 Wheatish Complex , Lola Nayar, Outlook Magazine, 24 Sep 2007 The Marie Antoinettes of Maharashtra , P. Sainath, The Hindu, Madras, 15 Sep 2007
August 2007	Green signal to genetic food , Chetan Chauhan, The Hindustan Times, New Delhi, 18 Aug 2007 Centre for corporate contract farming,The Business Standard, Bombay, 28 Aug 2007
June 2007	Grain Drain, Raj Chengappa with Ramesh Vinayak, India Today Magazine, 11 Jun 2007 What's Plaguing Agri-Export Zones?,Surinder Sud, The Business Standard, Bombay, 19 Jun 2007 ˜Importing Agricultural Produce Is Like Importing A Loss', Harsha Baruah & Swati Mongia, Tehelka Newsletter, 09 Jun 2007 Deepening Crisis, Devinder Sharma, The Deccan Herald, Bangalore, 02 Jun 2007
May 2007	Govts Target 4 Percent Agricultural Growth,The Hindustan Times, New Delhi, 30 May 2007 Help Needy Farmers, The Times Of India, Bombay, 30 May 2007 (The Other India )- Crops On Contract, Jayati Ghosh,Frontline Magazine, 04 May 2007 Food Security,The Times Of India, Bombay, 04 May 2007 Farmers` Unheard Lament,The Business Standard, Bombay, 08 May 2007 Beware! The MNC Locusts Are Here , Mira Kamdar,Tehelka Magazine, 26 May 2007
October 2006	Calling all cyber-coolies, Business Standard, Bombay, 30 October 2006 Let IT Be, The Times of India, Bombay, 31 October 2006 Be global, be mediocre , The Telegraph Calcutta, 27 October 2006
September 2006	Withering lives , Frontline Magazine, 08 September 2006 Wheatonomics, The Hindustan Times, New Delhi, 10 September 2006 A bargain-basement knowledge mandi, Infochange Website, 01 September 2006
July 2006	Rs 3,750-cr aid for cotton country, Vivek Deshpande, The Indian Express, Bombay, 02 July 2006 A lost opportunity, Devinder Sharma, The Deccan Herald, Bangalore, 11 July 2006 Politics of packages & the packaging of politics , P.Sainath, The Hindu, Madras, 14 July 2006 Durkheim in Vidarbha , The Telegraph, Calcutta, 11 July 2006 Loan Waiver Not Enough , C P Chandtrasekhar, The Times of India, Bombay, 01 July 2006 How do we tide over the agrarian crisis?, The Economic Times, Bombay, 25 July 2006 Labour market needs to be far more flexible, The Economic Times, Bombay, 03 July 2006 Go back to the basics, Dionne Bunsha, The Hindu, Madras, 16 July 2006
April 2006	A threat stalled , Frontline Magazine, 21 April 2006 "Genetically modified technology is absolutely price neutral", Down to Earth Magazine, 15 April 2006 'Terminator seeds could soon be a reality', The Financial Express, Bombay, 10 April 2006
February 2006	India Inc fans out to the fields, Kala Vijayraghavan, Deccan Herald, Bangalore, 22nd February 2006 The end of farmers, Devinder Sharma, Deccan Herald, Bangalore, 22nd February 2006 Killing Fields of India, Suman Sahai, The Times of India, Bombay, 16th March 2006 Grim Reaping, Harsh Mander, The Hindustan Times, Delhi, 20th February 2006 Kerala widows cry for help, Tanaz K. Noble, The Tehelka Magazine, 18th March 2006 Budget puts agriculture on a development path, S Sivakumar, The Financial Express, Bombay, 6th March 2006 Sowing seeds of misery, Kanchi Kohli, The Hindustan Times, Delhi, 8th Feb 2006 The peel-off effect , Anuradha Nagaraj, The Indian express, Bombay, 19th Feb 2006 Some get toasted, Payal Kapadia, Outlook, 13th Feb 2006 Vidharbha suicides: a scenario of post-mortems 24x7, P.Sainath, The Hindu, Mdras, 16th Feb 2006 A story of farm decline , The Business Standard, 24th Feb 2006 Will FM address the farmers' woes?, Devinder Sharma, The Sahara Times, Delhi, 25th Feb 2006

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