Rather than increasing food production through land reform and agroecology, the Green Revolution promotes technological intensification using new seed varieties, mechanization and agrochemicals. For an introduction to this issue, download our Food First Issue Primer on the Green Revolution
The question is not whether biofuels have a place in our future, but whether or not we allow a handful of global corporations to impoverish the planet.
Special to the Des Moines Register Biofuels, derived from everything from corn to French-fry grease, are being widely touted in…
With royal fanfare, British Petroleum just donated $500 million in research funds for UC Berkeley, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory and…
The links between the Green Revolution and the suicide epidemic are found in the crises that have enveloped rural Punjab over the last several decades.
Many observers claim the present rash of farmer suicides in India is the result of two decades of recurring socioeconomic and environmental disaster.
The Rockefeller and Gates Foundations recently launched AGRA.
Those are not your grandfather's potato chips.
Voices from the South is a collection of views and comments by leading voices of southern opposition to genetic engineering.
Thanks to soaring demand from the US, Japan and Western Europe, shrimp are now raised on an industrial scale in tropical countries.
Controversy erupted last year after genetically modified maize was discovered among farmers' traditional maize varieties in two remote Mexican states.
On Sept. 18, 2000, a coalition of biotech critics revealed the presence of GE corn--a variety not approved for human consumption--in Taco Bell brand taco shells.
Monsanto and DuPont are betting the farm in bids to transform themselves into the Coke and Pepsi of genetically engineered crops.
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