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ky, but losing land

Actually in the white hot heat of “development”

politicians and people have forgotten the farmers who produce that
food that fuels 8% GDP growth. In January 2008, at Davos, international
Dr. Krishan Bir Chaudhary summit, the votaries of 'globalization' were fawning over their achievements
inside the plush hotel, while outside the common folks, supposed to be the
beneficiaries were worried about food, water and fuel...all coming under control of
global criminal corporations. Indian farmers were not there or they would have added
land. The way both Indian and foreign multinationals are forcibly stealing land from
them would pauperize not one or two but millions of farmers in India.

India has about 148 million farming households eking out a living of farming activities.
This is about 65% of total households in India. Insiders say that in a meeting of agri-biz
multinational corporations, one of the executives said, ”we just need one million farmers.”
To this the officials of the Indian Government asked, “What we would do with the
remaining?” The answer was: “They are the Government's problem!”

Lest you forget: the corporations' agenda is to take control of the natural resources and
enslave the farmers . It is the natural resources that sustains us but the entire edifice of the the
current development agenda is to control land, water and diversity of our seeds. None of these
were created by any corporation. Those studying the impending energy crisis have come to a
conclusion that when the world comes to the end of the finite fossil fuel era, the United States of
America alone would require 50 million farmers to feed Americans. The cheap oil and gas era is
likely to come to an end by 2015 and it really does not matter when it comes, today, tomorrow, in
2015 or 2030. Cheap energy allowed industrialized farming, corporate control of food production
and high degree of labour efficiency: far less human muscle was required to produce food as
compared to the period 70-80 years ago. When cheap energy will be unavailable who will feed our
bureaucrats, army and the rest of us? So, the prescription by world's top agri-biz corporations that
they need only one million farmers is not only misleading but a ruse to push India into a situation of
food crisis, engineered food shortages, mass hunger, starvation and deaths. In the era of energy
shortage if America would need 50 million farmers, India would need 150 million. Make no mistake:
we need a policy for restoration of the peasantries. But can we do it? It took centuries for Indian
farmers to make India world's largest producer of food and fibre; in less than three decades they
have lost all their skills and committing suicide on a scale never seen in this country.

The 11th Plan document is ambiguous. It talks of supporting small farmers “but” also medium and
big farmers! That “But” speaks of policy ambiguity of this regime. We think that policy-makers
and politicians may come and go but certain policy postulates need to be absolutely clear on the
ownership and management of agricultural land. That is the most important issue right now.
Land Acquisition Act [LA Act] of 1894 vintage still remains on our statute books. The SEZ Act has
further eroded the natural rights of the peasantries. Since 1947, forests have declined, pastures
have declined by at least 20,000 hectare, and ecosystems have declined to the extent that almost all
perennial rivers are stressed and seasonal rivers have dried up. It is time that further disruption
of peasantries from their lands are stopped and they are given all the help required to grow
enough food for India's 1.18 billion and growing. Six crore farmers have been displaced since
independence and more then two Lack farmers have committed suicides.

No farmland should be acquired in future and this is not a fad of environmentalists or

supporters of farmers; this is a compulsion now. Enough is enough. The situation today is
identical to the one that Mahatma Gandhi saw with his own eyes in Champaran.

Krishan Bir Chaudhary

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KISAN KI AWAAZ
National Magazine of Farmers’ Voice
Editor :

Dr. Krishan Bir Chaudhary,

President, CONTENTS
Bharatiya Krishak Samaj,
F-1/A, Pandav Nagar, The Dangers of Genetic Engineering 2
Delhi-110091
* Dr. Mae-Wan Ho
Advisory Board : The Bt. Brinjal Moratorium is a Science Based Decision 4
S. P. Gulati, Sect. G.O.I., Retd. * Dr. Vandana Shiva
Lingraj B. Patil Gates Foundation Invests In MONSANTO 6
Dr. Mangesh Deshmukh
Dr. R.B. Thakare Poverty and Food Insecurity in the Developing World 8
D. Guruswamy, Adv. * Arun Shrivastava
Rajesh Sharma “Bittoo”
Pratap Singh, DIG Retd. Genetically Modified Crop on the Loose and 12
Hatam Singh Nagar, Adv.
* David Biello
K. Sareen
Ajay Singh Antibiotics on the verge of becoming completely useless 13

Desiged by : Rahul Sharma

* Jonathan Benson
Aastha Chaudhary How Green Revolution Played Havoc With 14

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 The Dangers of Genetic Engineering
* Dr. Mae-Wan Ho
A s one of the many scientists presenting evidence
to the Royal Commission on Genetic
Engineering, I had high hopes that New
Zealand would assume moral and intellectual leadership
in rejecting this dangerous technology bolstered by
degenerate science, so obviously serving the corporate
agenda instead of the public good.
It has become increasingly evident that GM technology
is inherently hazardous and unreliable both in
agriculture and in medicine. The list of failures is
growing apace. Let me mention a few recent examples
that came to light since I presented evidence to the
Commission.
GM crops are inherently unstable, and this is fully
borne out by numerous new scientific publications.
Even the top 'success', Roundup Ready soy, is showing
every sign of breakdown: reduced yield, non-
germination, diseases and infestation by new pests.
Molecular genetic characterization, the first ever done
on any commercially grown GM crop so far, has
confirmed that both the GM construct of Roundup
Ready soy and the host genome have been scrambled
(rearranged), and hundreds of basepairs of unknown
DNA has got in as well.
The 'next generation' crops are even worse. I draw your
attention especially to those developed with terminator
technologies aimed at protecting corporate patents and
preventing farmers from saving and replanting seeds.
Many are currently field tested and commercially grown
as 'male sterile' crops. Not only are the constructs more
complicated and hence more unstable and prone to
horizontal gene transfer, the gene products used are cell
poisons or recombinases, ie, genome scramblers.
Female-sterile and even male-sterile genes (yes!) are
being spread via pollen. These dangerous genes will
spread and wipe out other crops as well as wild plant
species.
It has become all too clear that GM agriculture cannot
co-exist with other forms of agriculture. Bees are
known to travel up to10km or more in foraging for
pollen.
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There is no way to prevent the horizontal spread of
GM constructs to unrelated species, which can occur in
all environments, including the digestive and respiratory
tracts of animals. There are both sound a priori reasons
as well as empirical evidence to support my contention,
shared by other scientists that GM constructs may more
likely spread horizontally than non-manipulated DNA.
Let me reiterate them here.
GM constructs are designed to cross species barriers
and invade genomes. They possess homologies to a
wide combination of viral and bacterial DNA and are
hence much more likely to recombine with, and transfer
genes to all those agents. GM constructs are well known
to be structurally unstable and hence prone to fragment
and recombine. Some constructs such as those with the
CaMV 35S promoter are extra unstable on account of the
presence of recombination hotspots.
I have mentioned the now abundant empirical evidence
of structural instability of transgenic DNA and trangenic
plants above. The CaMV 35S promoter has been shown
to be extra unstable in GM crops. And horizontal
transfer of transgenic DNA has been demonstrated both
in the laboratory and in the field. I note from your report
that Dr Daniel Cohen, a plant scientist in the Plant Health
and Development group of HortResearch, had attempted
to refute my warnings about the CaMV 35S promoter.
But he, like other GM proponents, had failed to counter
my point that the isolated, recombined CaMV 35S
promoter cannot be equated with the promoter in the
intact viral genome or the intact virus. The intact viral
genome had evolved over millions of years. The host
range of the virus itself is restricted to the cabbage
family, and it has a well-tried and tested life cycle in the
host cell that does not require integration into the host
genome. The fact that no transfer from the virus into the
plant genome has taken place in the course of evolution
attests to the effective biological barriers that keep
species distinct.
The same promoter, removed from the viral genome and
put next to strange genes in the GM construct, is entirely
different. It now functions promiscuously across the
living world, including animal and human cells. Its
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destabilizing effect on GM crops is such that many
scientists, including those who pioneered its use, are
now phasing it out. There is no justification for releasing
any GM crop containing the CaMV35S promoter into
the environment.
I note that you have approved the field release of GM
tamarillo (Cyphomandra betacea) for resistance to
tamarillo mosaic virus at Kerikeri Research Station.
This crop not only contains CaMV 35S promoter, but
also has a kanamycin resistance marker gene.
The approval of this marker gene was a regulatory
blunder committed in the United States and elsewhere,
as it is clear that kanamycin is still widely in clinical use,
and the marker gene confers resistance to new
generation aminoglycosides as well. There is also plenty
of evidence that GM crops with viral genes are prone to
give rise to recombinant viruses, some of which more
virulent than the 'wild type'.
When I first drew attention to horizontal gene transfer in
1995, proponents of GM technology reacted by denying
it exists. Now they, like Dr. Daniel Cohen, are saying it
does not matter because it is a natural process.
Horizontal gene transfer may have occurred in our
evolutionary past, but GM constructs are anything but
natural. They are synthetic genes and new combinations
of genes that have never existed in billions of years of
evolution, and cannot in any sense be regarded as
natural.
And, I am afraid, the GM proponents will have to change
their tune again; for a rigorous reanalysis of the human
genome and other data has failed to substantiate the
claim that the human genome has 113 to 226 bacterial
genes transferred into it. The actual number could well
be no more than a few, or none at all. What is the lesson?
Precisely as I have always said, horizontal gene transfer
does not readily happen without genetic engineering.
Genetic engineering enhances it, with dangerous
consequences.
In biomedical applications, the gene-centered approach
is equally misplaced and pernicious. So-called 'health
genomics' is a drain on our intellectual and financial
resources. It is preventing us from addressing the real,
overwhelming causes of ill health: poverty,
malnutrition, social injustice and environmental
pollution.
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It is stigmatizing and victimizing those most in need of
care and treatment, and making even the most unethical
applications, such as human cloning and 'therapeutic
human cloning', seem compelling. Furthermore, the
'cures' on offer are literally deadly. The toll from 'gene
therapy' trials so far is at least 6 deaths and more than
650 adverse events.
It is now admitted that gene therapy has been oversold
by the scientists themselves. Presumed stem cells from
human fetuses transplanted into the brain of 5
Parkinson's patients turned into an irredeemable
nightmare because the cells grew uncontrollably.
The latest verdict from an international team of cloners
is that mice embryonic stem cells are uncontrollably
variable in culture, the clones themselves are also
subject to uncontrollable and unpredictable variations
and defects. And xenotransplantation is widely
condemned because there is clear evidence that
endogenous viruses from animal organs can cross into
humans.
New lethal viruses continue to be created in genetic
engineering labs, some of the latest being SHIVs,
hybrids of human and monkey AIDS viruses that can
infect both. Finally, AIDS virologists have issued
serious warning against AIDS vaccines that undermine
the immune system, making it more susceptible to viral
infections, and have the potential to generate lethal
viruses and bacteria in the vaccinated populations. A
sweeping paradigm change is long overdue if we are to
survive the destruction that reductionist science and
technology have wrought on us and on our planet.
We have all the means to deliver genuine health and
food security to the world without using GM
technology and going against the wishes of the vast
majority of people.
Only the political will is missing.
Director; Institute of Science in Society; London;
NW1 0XR UK
Email: m.w.ho@i-sis.org
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The Bt. Brinjal Moratorium is a Science Based Decision
* Dr. Vandana Shiva
A fter the Minister of Environment announced
the moratorium on Bt. Brinjal, article after
article in the media has denounced the
decision, saying such decisions should be left to
“scientists”.
The issue is however not science vs anti-science. It is
biased science vs independent science. It is
reductionist science vs systems science. The
moratorium is science based because it took into
account the best of science.
It is leading scientists who have called for caution and
for full and independent assessment. Dr. Pushpa
Bhargava, the leading scientist who established
genetic engineering in India, has been the most vocal
voice against Bt. Brinjal.
The moratorium is in fact a science based decision.
The so called “scientists” speaking most vociferously
for Bt. Brinjal are in fact “technicians” who are using
an outmoded reductionist science to develop GM
crops for corporations like Monsanto / Mahyco.
Leaving biosafety decisions in their hands is unethical
and risky for society. It is unethical because
developers and promoters of a technology cannot
decide if it is good for society or not. This is an
example of conflict of interest.
It is risky because they lack the scientific expertise
needed for biosafety assessment. They are like makers
of refrigerators who have no idea that the
chlorofluorocarbons they use can make a hole in the
ozone layer.
They are like makers of cars who have no idea that the
emissions of their cars pollute the atmosphere and
destabilize the climate. Production expertise is not the
same as impact expertise.
Both to avoid conflict of interest and to avoid narrow
minded risk assessment, decisions about GM food
cannot be left to the technicians who are developing
GM foods.
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Genetic engineering is based on reductionist biology,
the idea that living systems are machines, and you can
change parts of the machine without impacting the
organism. Reductionism was chosen as the preferred
paradigm for economic and political control of the
diversity in nature and society.
Genetic determinism and genetic reductionism go
hand in hand. But to say that genes are primary is more
ideology than science. Genes are not independent
entities, but dependent parts of an entirety that gives
them effect.
All parts of the cell interact, and the combinations of
genes are at least as important as their individual
effects in the making of an organism.
More broadly, an organism cannot be treated simply as
the product of a number of proteins, each produced by
the corresponding gene. Genes have multiple effects,
and most traits depend on multiple genes.
Yet, the linear and reductionist causality of genetic
determinism is held onto, even though the very
processes that make genetic engineering possible run
counter to the concepts of “master molecules” and the
“central dogma”.
As Roger Lewin has stressed “Restriction sites,
promoters, operators, operons, and enhancers play
their part. Not only does DNA make RNA, but RNA,
aided by an enzyme suitably called reverse
transcriptase, makes DNA”.
Genetic engineering has epistemological and ethical
implications not merely for the material conditions of
our life, our health, and our environment. Health
implications are built into the very techniques of
genetic engineering.
Genetic engineering moves genes across species by
using “vectors” usually a mosaic recombination of
natural genetic parasites from different sources,
including viruses causing caners and other diseases in
animals and plants that are tagged with one or more
antibiotic resistant “marker” genes.
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Evidence accumulating over the past few years
confirms the fear that these vectors constitute major
sources of genetic pollution with drastic ecological
and public health consequences. Vector mediated
horizontal gene transfer and recombinations are found
to be involved in generating new pandemic strains of
bacterial pathogens.
Biotech technicians do not have either the scientific
expertise of gene ecology or the scientific expertise in
the multiple disciplines that are needed for the risk
assessment of GMOs in the context of their impact on
the environment and public health.
Real scientists know that mechanistic science of
genetic reductionism is inaccurate and flawed. Deeper
research has led to the emergent field of epigenetics.
The prefix epi means “over and above”.
While genetic reductionism leads to the false
assumption that genes control the traits of life, the new
science of epigenetic control reveals that life is
controlled by something above the genes.
Environmental signals acting through membrane
switches control gene activity. Environmentally
derived signals activate membrane switches that send
secondary signals into the cell nucleus, and within the
nucleus the signals select gene blueprints and control
the manufacturing of specific proteins.
Epigenetic mechanisms can edit the read out of a gene
so as to create over 30,000 different variations of
proteins for the same gene blueprint. Epigenetic
describes how gene activity and cellular expression
are regulated by information from the environment,
not by the internal matter of DNA.
The biotech mechanics do not function in the
paradigm of epigenetics of gene ecology. They are
trapped in the outmoded paradigm of genetic
reductionism.
The limitation at a higher systems level is even more
serious. Bt. Brinjal is being offered as a pest control
solution. A gene for producing a toxin is being put into
the plant, along with antibiotic resistance markers and
viral promoters.
This is like using a JCB to make a hole in the wall of
your house for hanging up a painting. Like the JCB
will destroy the wall, the transgenic transformation
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will disrupt the metabolism and self regulatory
processes of the organism.
Genetic engineering is “high tech” like the JCB, but it
is also crude tech for the sensitive task of maintaining
the ecological fabric of agriculture to control pests.
Pests are controlled through biodiversity, through
organic practices which build resilience to pests and
disease. In Navdanya we use no pesticides and have no
pests. In Andhra Pradesh, a Government project for
Non-Pesticide Management has covered 14 lakh
acres.
The scientific alternative to the crude tech of putting
toxic genes into our food is agro ecology. The
International Assessment on Agricultural Science and
Technology Development has recognized from a
global survey of peer reviewed studies that agro
ecology based systems outperform farming systems
using genetic engineering.
Epigenetics and agro ecology are the sciences for the
future. Reductionist biology is a primitive science of
the past.
Our decisions about food and agriculture need to be
based on the best of science, not the worst of science.
They definitely should not be based on a crude
technology parading the science.
Because we are what we eat, and food becomes, our
bodies, citizens must have a choice about they eat. The
democratization of science and decision making has
become an imperative.
All human beings are knowing subjects and in a
democracy people's knowledge and peoples
knowledge and people's choices must count.
That is why the public hearings on Bt. Brinjal were a
democratic imperative.
Those who say our food choices must be left to biotech
technicians are working against both science and
democracy.
* Founder- Navdanya
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Gates Foundation Invests In MONSANTO
Both will profit at expense of small-scale African farmers
S eattle, WA - Farmers and civil society
organizations around the world are outraged by
the recent discovery of further connections
between the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation and
agribusiness titan Monsanto.
Last week, a financial website published the Gates
Foundation's investment portfolio, including 500,000
shares of Monsanto stock with an estimated worth of
$23.1 million purchased in the second quarter of 2010
(see the filing with the Securities and Exchange
Commission). This marks a substantial increase from
its previous holdings, valued at just over $360,000 (see
the Foundation's 2008 990 Form).
"The Foundation's direct investment in Monsanto is
problematic on two primary levels," said Dr. Phil
Bereano, University of Washington Professor
Emeritus and recognized expert on genetic
engineering. "First, Monsanto has a history of blatant
disregard for the interests and well- being of small
farmers around the world, as well as an appalling
environmental track record.
The strong connections to Monsanto cast serious doubt
on the Foundation's heavy funding of agricultural
development in Africa and purported goal of
alleviating poverty and hunger among small-scale
farmers. Second, this investment represents an
enormous conflict of interests.
Monsanto has already negatively impacted agriculture
in African countries. For example, in South Africa in
2009, Monsanto's genetically modified maize failed to
produce kernels and hundreds of farmers were
devastated.
According to Mariam Mayet, environmental attorney
and director of the Africa Centre for Biosafety in
Johannesburg, some farmers suffered up to an 80%
crop failure. While Monsanto compensated the large-
scale farmers to whom it directly sold the faulty
product, it gave nothing to the small-scale farmers to
whom it had handed out free sachets of seeds.
"When the economic power of Gates is coupled with
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the irresponsibility of Monsanto, the outlook for
African smallholders is not very promising," said
Mayet. Monsanto's aggressive patenting practices
have also monopolized control over seed in ways that
deny farmers control over their own harvest, going so
far as to sue--and bankrupt--farmers for "patent
infringement."
News of the Foundation's recent Monsanto investment
has confirmed the misgivings of many farmers and
sustainable agriculture advocates in Africa, among
them the Kenya Biodiversity Coalition, who
commented, "We have long suspected that the founders
of AGRA--the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation--
had a long and more intimate affair with Monsanto.
" Indeed, according to Travis English, researcher with
AGRA Watch, "The Foundation's ownership of
Monsanto stock is emblematic of a deeper, more long-
standing involvement with the corporation,
particularly in Africa." In 2008, AGRA Watch, a
project of the Seattle-based organization Community
Alliance for Global Justice, uncovered many linkages
between the Foundation's grantees and Monsanto.
For example, some grantees (in particular about 70%
of grantees in Kenya) of the Alliance for a Green
Revolution in Africa (AGRA)--considered by the
Foundation to be its "African face"--work directly with
Monsanto on agricultural development projects.
Other prominent links include high-level Foundation
staff members who were once senior officials for
Monsanto, such as Rob Horsch, formerly Monsanto
Vice President of International Development
Partnerships and current Senior Program Officer of the
Gates Agricultural Development Program.
Transnational corporations like Monsanto have been
key collaborators with the Foundation and AGRA's
grantees in promoting the spread of industrial
agriculture on the continent.
This model of production relies on expensive inputs
such as chemical fertilizers, genetically modified
seeds, and herbicides.
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Though this package represents enticing market
development opportunities for the private sector, many
civil society organizations contend it will lead to
further displacement of farmers from the land, an
actual increase in hunger, and migration to already
swollen cities unable to provide employment
opportunities.
In the words of a representative from the Kenya
Biodiversity Coalition, "AGRA is poison for our
farming systems and livelihoods. Under the
philanthropic banner of greening agriculture, AGRA
will eventually eat away what little is left of
sustainable small-scale farming in Africa."
A 2008 report initiated by the World Bank and the UN,
the International Assessment of Agricultural
Knowledge, Science and Technology for
Development (IAASTD), promotes alternative
solutions to the problems of hunger and poverty that
emphasize their social and economic roots. The
IAASTD concluded that small-scale agroecological
farming is more suitable for the third world than the
industrial agricultural model favored by Gates and
Monsanto.
In a summary of the key findings of IAASTD, the
Pesticide Action Network North America (PANNA)
emphasizes the report's warning that "continued
reliance on simplistic technological fixes--including
transgenic crops--will not reduce persistent hunger
and poverty and could exacerbate environmental
problems and worsen social inequity." Furthermore,
PANNA explains, "The Assessment's 21 key findings
suggest that small-scale agroecological farming may
offer one of the best means to feed the hungry while
protecting the planet."
The Gates Foundation has been challenged in the past
for its questionable investments; in 2007, the L.A.
Times exposed the Foundation for investing in its own
grantees and for its "holdings in many companies that
have failed tests of social responsibility because of
environmental lapses, employment discrimination,
disregard for worker rights, or unethical practices."
The Times chastised the Foundation for what it called
"blind-eye investing," with at least 41% of its assets
invested in "companies that countered the foundation's
charitable goals or socially-concerned philosophy."
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Although the Foundation announced it would reassess
its practices, it decided to retain them. As reported by
the L.A. Times, chief executive of the Foundation Patty
Stonesifer defended their investments, stating, "It
would be naïve...to think that changing the
foundation's investment policy could stop the human
suffering blamed on the practices of companies in
which it invests billions of dollars."
This decision is in direct contradiction to the
Foundation's official Investment Philosophy", which,
according to its website, "defined areas in which the
endowment will not invest, such as companies whose
profit model is centrally tied to corporate activity that
[Bill and Melinda] find egregious. This is why the
endowment does not invest in tobacco tocks."
More recently, the Foundation has come under fire in
its own hometown. This week, 250 Seattle residents
sent postcards expressing their concern that the
Foundation's approach to agricultural development,
rather than reducing hunger as pledged, would instead
"increase farmer debt, enrich agribusiness
corporations like Monsanto and Syngenta, degrade the
environment, and dispossess small farmers.
" In addition to demanding that the Foundation instead
fund "socially and ecologically appropriate practices
determined locally by African farmers and scientists"
and support African food sovereignty, they urged the
Foundation to cut all ties to Monsanto and the
biotechnology industry.
AGRA Watch, a program of Seattle-based Community
Alliance for Global Justice, supports African
initiatives and programs that foster farmers' self-
determination and food sovereignty. AGRA Watch also
supports public engagement in fighting genetic
engineering and exploitative agricultural policies, and
demands transparency and accountability on the part of
the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation and AGRA.
GENET-forum providing background information
for the European NGO Network on Genetic
Engineering
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S enator Lugar and others [Senators John Kerry,
Susan Collins, Robert Casey, Richard Durbin
and Thomas Harkin] of the US Senate have
introduced 'Global Food Security Act' [GFSA, No.
S384] to be administered by the USAID.
Although it seems to have a humanitarian purpose,
GFSA is as sinister as the two pending bills HR875
and S425. I say this because not one US regulatory
authority has successfully regulated industries in the
interest of the people at least in the last ninety-odd
years. Monopolies have been protected and cartels
continue to kill in the US and across the world.
There are reasons to suspect that this triad of bills
when they become Acts will be misused against the
weak and the poor, hence the need to evaluate the
purpose of the bill. India has to remain alert.
Blaming food insecurity and hunger on poverty
[essentially, inability to earn sufficient cash to buy
food] has been the official position of most
governments and of international institutions like
UN-FAO, World Bank, IMF, and CGIAR.
Unfortunately such notions serve powerful economic
and political interests that perpetuate hunger,
malnutrition, diseases, illiteracy, ignorance, urban
slums and filth and rural poverty globally.
Those who influence the developmental agenda of
governments seldom pause to think that farmers and
gardeners can always grow enough food to stave off
hunger and malnutrition from less than 200 square
meters of land; with about 2000 square meters they
can feed themselves quite well with some surplus.
For Indian farmers growing food has been a way of
life. Yet the irony is that their survival options have
been compromised.
Industrial farming method, especially in the US, is
based on mono-cropping, use of hybrids and
genetically engineered seeds, fertilizers and lethal
pesticides, and fuel guzzling farm machinery.
It is true that at current wage rate, an average
American can buy a full meal with about an hours'
wage but this 'cheap food' is actually horrendously
costly.
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The agenda of Indo-US knowledge Initiative in
Agriculture is to introduce industrialized food
production and control by the US based
multinationals.
Eating industrially grown foods actually means eating
fossil fuels, eating less nutrition and more calories,
falling ill more frequently, suffering from
degenerative diseases, spewing greenhouse gases and
dying young.
A wit summarized the present situation succinctly that
for the first time in the history of civilization, parents
will be burying their children.
Why? Because we are chemically modified humans,
now being destroyed at genetic level from GMOs.
Unnatural biological stresses intensify over space and
time.
Basis of GFSA-2009
And yet, instead of addressing issues of nutrition and
health, the US Congress is hell bent on introducing
laws with global reach that would destroy the very
basis of people's food security and food sovereignty.
That is the basis of the triad of the Bills in the US-
Congress. The macro-economic reason for
intervention is that agriculture can be powerful engine
for growth. Diverse and secure food supply has health
benefits including increasing child survival,
improving cognitive and physical development of
children, especially those under two years of age,
increasing immune system function including
resistance to HIV/AIDS, and improving human
performance. That perhaps is antagonistic to the
corporate agenda.
The bill hopes to mitigate global food insecurity with a
Congressional appropriation of US$7.5 billion over
five years to 2014 [about $1.5b per year] and assigns
the responsibility to the US Agency for International
Development [USAID] as the administrator. This
itself is hilarious.
China's agriculture budget last year was about US$
57.35 billion [391.7 billion yuan] and the Ministry of
Agriculture in India spent over 2.35 billion dollars per
year over 2002-07. They are still struggling to
eliminate food insecurity in their respective countries.
9

Subsidies' racket in USA and EU
The US and European Commission provide to its
biggest farmers [not their own small farmers,
please note] that allows the cartel backed by their
respective governments to manipulate global
agricultural commodity prices exactly as they want.
'The top 10% of the biggest agricultural producers [in
the USA] received more than 72% of its $23 billion
subsidy programs in 2005. Meanwhile, 60% of all US
farmers do not collect any government subsidies.' [5]
Take rice, which is staple food for nearly 3.7 billion
Asians. The US Government provided about one
billion dollar subsidy to just three rice growers in the
US over 1995 to 2006: $526 million to Riceland
Foods, $314 million to Producers Rice Mill and $146
million to Farmers Rice Cooperative.]
Similarly the European Commission data show that in
2004, US$36 billion (€28.2bn) of direct subsidies was
paid out of a total Common Agricultural Policy (CAP)
budget of $58bn (€45.6bn) and the 7% of Europe's
primary food producers received more than 50%
of these payments.
The biggest 2,460 farmers in Europe received on
average $667,000 (€524,000) each, totalling $1.7bn
(€1.3bn).
The sops totaled over 140 billion dollars over 1995-06
in the US alone and covered cotton, canola, soy,
sorghum, among other agriculture commodities.
To put this into perspective, there are an estimated 149
million farming households in India.
If this sort of subsidy had been given by the Indian
government, it would amount to US$ 940 per
household or 78 dollars per year per household or Rs
3900 per household per year at current exchange rate
of one dollar to fifty rupees.
Assuming each household spends a dollar a day on
food, that amount would be sufficient to buy food for
76 days.
Simply put: American taxpayers could have fed
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745 million Indians two meals a day for 76 days on
the year, every year, for twelve years since 1995.
That could itself have wiped out malnutrition of
India's rural populace. Or, almost entirely in Sub-
Saharan Africa.
This huge subsidy allows food cartels to lift wheat and
rice and other food staples at a pittance to dominate
global food market. The unsold surplus is palmed off
to Government run schools in the US that is further
destroying children's health.
Agriculture plays multi-functional role
Agriculture has always performed multifunctional
role within traditional farming communities. They
perform too many tasks, often synergistically that are
not appreciated by the current official thinking that
borders on lunacy.
IAASTD has acknowledged this fact and uses the
term multifunctionality to 'express the inescapable
interconnectedness of agriculture's different roles
and functions.
The concept of multifunctionality recognizes
agriculture as a multi-output activity producing not
only commodities (food, feed, fibers, agrofuels,
medicinal products and ornamentals), but also non-
commodity outputs such as environmental services,
landscape amenities and cultural heritages.' [1] These
services can't be measured in money terms, or even
equated with the amount of money a farmer needs to
buy food which he grows in the first place.
Unpaid environmental services of small farmers
Industrial agriculture compares efficiency of land use
solely in terms of crop yield, NEVER ever in terms of
the wider environmental services of the small holder
or peasant.
The environmental services of the peasantries
include: soil management, prevention of erosion,
animal husbandry, maintaining farm-level bio-
diversity [vital for food security], water resource
management, farm and village level rainwater
harvesting [much of traditional methods have fallen
into disuse because even small holders rely on diesel
11
 Genetically Modified Crop on the Loose and
Evolving in U.S. Midwest
GM canola plant refugees from farms in
North Dakota bear multiple transgenic traits
* David Biello
O utside a grocery store in Langdon, N.D., two
ecologists spotted a yellow canola plant
growing on the margins of a parking lot this
summer. They plucked it, ground it up and, using a
chemical stick similar to those in home pregnancy kits,
identified proteins that were made by artificially
introduced genes. The plant was GM-genetically
modified.
That's not too surprising, given that North Dakota grows
tens of thousands of hectares of conventional and
genetically modified canola a weedy plant, known
scientifically as Brassica napus var oleifera, bred by
Canadians to yield vegetable oil from its thousands of
tiny seeds. What was more surprising was that nearly
everywhere the two ecologists and their colleagues
stopped during a trip across the state, they found GM
canola growing in the wild.
"We found transgenic plants growing in the middle of
nowhere, far from fields," says ecologist Cindy Sagers
of the University of Arkansas (U.A.) in Fayetteville,
who presented the findings August 6 at the Ecological
Society of America meeting in Pittsburgh. Most
intriguingly, two of the 288 tested plants showed man-
made genes for resistance to multiple pesticides so-
called "stacked traits," and a type of seed that
biotechnology companies like Monsanto have long
sought to develop and market.
As it seems, Mother Nature beat biotech to it. "One of
the ones with multiple traits was [in the middle of]
nowhere, and believe me, there's a lot of nowhere in
North Dakotano where near a canola field," she adds.
That likely means that transgenic canola plants are
cross-pollinating in the wildand swapping introduced
genes. Although GM canola in the wild has been
identified everywhere from Canada to Japan in previous
research, this marks the first time such plants have been
shown to be evolving in this way."They had novel
combinations of transgenic traits," Sagers says. "The
most parsimonious explanation is these traits are stable
12 Kisan Ki Awaaz
outside of cultivation and they are evolving.” Escaped
populations of such transgenic plants have generally
died out quickly without continual replenishment from
stray farm seeds in places such as Canada, but canola is
capable of hybridizing with at least two and possibly as
many as eight wild weed species in North America,
including field mustard (Brassica rapa), which is a
known agricultural pest.
"Not only is it going to jump out of cultivation; there are
sexually compatible weeds all over North America,"
Sagers says. Adds ecologist-in-training Meredith
Schafer of U.A., who led the research, "It becomes a
weed [farmers] can't control." There has been no
evidence to show that the herbicide resistance genes will
either increase or decrease fitness to date. The finding
provides, however, a warning for future genetic
modifications that might increase fitness in all kinds of
plants; it will be difficult to keep those traits on the farm
and out of the wild.
"The big concern is traits that would increase
invasiveness or weediness, traits such as drought
tolerance, salt tolerance, heat or cold tolerance" says
weed scientist Carol Mallory-Smith of Oregon State
Universityall the traits that Monsanto and others are
currently developing to help crops adapt to climate
change. “These traits would have the possibility of
expanding a species' range." In the case of canola,
consider it done-at least in North Dakota.
This is not the first transgenic crop to escape into the
wild in the U.S.; herbicide-resistant turf grass being
tested in Oregon spread as well in 2006. And GM canola
is not a regulated plant, "therefore no protocols are
required by the regulatory agencies to reduce or prevent
escape," notes ecologist Allison Snow of The Ohio State
University. “
The next question is: 'So what?' What difference does it
make if the feral canola or any species that hybridize
with it have two transgenes for herbicide resistance?"
September - 2010
Canola modified to resist either the herbicide
glufosinate (brand name Liberty) or glyphosate (brand
name Roundup) has been available in the U.S. since
1989and unregulated since 1998 and 1999, respectively
for the two herbicides.
"These results are not new for Canadian researchers and
to be expected if two types of transgenic herbicide-
resistant canola are commercially grown," says Suzanne
Warwick of Agriculture and Agri-Food Canada, a
government agency.A common source for GM canola in
the wild is seed that has scattered during harvest or fallen
off a truck during transport. “Because about 90 percent
of the U.S. and Canadian canola crop is biotech, it is
reasonable to expect a survey of roadside canola to show
similar levels of biotech plants," said Tom Nickson,
environmental policy lead at Monsanto, in a prepared
statement.Nor does Monsanto claim ownership of the
escaped plants, even those with multiple transgenes,
according to company spokesman John Combest.
Antibiotics on the verge of becoming completely useless
* Jonathan Benson
August 16, 2010 -(NaturalNews) The journal Lancet
Infectious Diseases recently published a sobering
piece about how antibiotics are becoming wholly
ineffective as treatments for infection.
According to the report, even the most powerful
antibiotics available are largely inadequate at tackling
the emerging forms of new and powerful "super"
bacteria.
Antibiotic overuse has become a pandemic problem.
They are used in animal feed to make animals grow
more quickly and they are handed out like candy by
many doctors to people with almost any ailment. And
they are simply not working anymore to fight
infection.
Published by Professor Tim Walsh and his colleagues,
the paper explains how a new gene called NDM 1 is
changing the way infectious bacteria survive. The
NDM 1 gene passes among bacteria like E.
Coli and Klebsiella pneumoniae and makes them
resistant to antibiotics. Even carbapenems, the most
powerful antibiotics available, are no match for these
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“It has never been, nor will it be, Monsanto policy to
exercise its patent rights where trace amounts of our
patented traits are present in fields as a result of
inadvertent means," although researchers would have to
obtain a license from the company to work with the GM
plant. It remains to be seen how much sexual mingling
such transgenic plants do; U.A.'s Sagers plans to do
greenhouse trials starting in a few weeks. But it does
provide a compelling example of how genes might move
through a given population.
"This is a good model for the influence of agriculture on
the evolution of native plants," she says. "We can
imagine gene flow to native species. If we can imagine it
happening, it probably happens."
Http://www.scientificamerican.com/article.cfm?id=
genetically-modified-crop
new bacteria.
“This is potentially the end. There are no antibiotics in
the pipeline that have activity against NDM 1-
producing enterobacteriaceae.
We have a bleak window of may be ten years where we
are going to have to use the antibiotics we have very
wisely, but also grapple with the reality that we have
nothing to treat these infections with," explained
Walsh in a recent Guardian piece.
According to Dr. Livermore, director of the antibiotic
resistance monitoring and reference laboratory at the
U.K. Health Protection Agency, the entirety of modern
medicine could collapse as a result of antibiotics
becoming useless.
"A lot of modern medicine would become impossible
if we lost our ability to treat infections," he
emphasized.
Sources - http://www.guardian.co.uk/society/2...
13
 How Green Revolution
Played Havoc With Mexican Agriculture
* Devinder Sharma

G round Reality-Mexico is the land of origin of

the Green Revolution. It is here that the so
called miracle seeds of dwarf wheat were first
evolved. Norman Borlaug's wheat magic did cast a
spell in far away India, which spread like a wild fire
The extinction of the farm communities is actually a
process that began more or less with the advent of
Green Revolution.

Those who promoted Green Revolution, it is now

across the developing world. becoming clear, were not aware of the hidden design.
The complete take over of agricultural research and
It literally sowed the seeds of what was later dubbed education across the globe by the US land grant
as the Green Revolution. system came in handy to programme the scientific
mindset. The USAID has to be admired the way it
While the 2nd generation-environmental impacts of helped change the scientific brains to the virtues of the
Green Revolution have played havoc with the natural intensive farming systems as the only way forward.
resource base across continents, the destruction of the
farm lands, and the plight of the dying farmers, is Anyway, I came across this interesting insight into
being hastily buried under the aggressive launch of Mexican agriculture, which I feel I must draw your
the Second Green Revolution. attention to. Jill Richardson, author of Recipe for
America: Why Our Food System is Broken and What
To avoid the finger of suspicion pointing towards Can we do it to Fix it, travelled to 'see the Green
them, the international scientific community in Revolution first hand'. Here is her report.
collaboration with the agribusiness industry and the
policy makers, are in a desperate hurry to create a The US Ploy to Promote Genetically Engineered
smokescreen that hides the great tragedy. Seeds and Pesticides to Poor Mexican Farmers Is
Impoverishing Their Communities.
Four decades after Green Revolution was launched,
the world is still to come to grips with the devastation
it wrought to the farm lands -- the fertile and verdant
lands gasping for breath; chemical pesticides not only
disrupting the insect equilibrium, but resulting in
more savage pest attack besides contaminating the
To protect the environment:
food chain; and the relentless mining of groundwater
drying up the hemisphere. Intensive agriculture has
already brought the world to a boiling point. forestry should be promoted,
Added to the destruction of farm lands, the growing
emphasis on corporatisation of agriculture which Deforestation should be prevented.
includes futures trading, free trade in agriculture and
the strengthening of big box food retail has already
brought the food chain into the hands of a few food
giants/agribusiness companies.

Farming communities wordwide have been

marginalised in the process, and I am sure the day is - Aastha Chaudhary -
not far away when farmers will disappear from the
face of the Earth.

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16 Kisan Ki Awaaz September - 2010
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 'An expo par excellence', say participants
AgriTech India 2010, GrainTech India 2010 and India Foodex 2010
I ndian agriculture is now going through critical
times. On the one hand, relying on its strength of
its green revolution strategy and having emerged
an exporter of grains and food products, the
government is keen to enact a Food Security law to
ensure minimum food grains to every individual in the
country as his or her own right.
On the other hand, the weaknesses in the
implementation of the strategy are showing up in a
glaring manner. One latest such instance is the huge
losses of procured food grains for want of proper
storage facilities.
The need of the hour is increased productivity of
grains and building of an effective supply chain to
ensure that what is produced in the farm reaches the
consumer in good shape. In fact, what is imperative is
to plug every loophole in the food production and
distribution system, which means effective use of
available technology. Significantly, Prime Minister
Manmohan Singh in his Independence Day speech
emphasised on the need for technology to tackle
various ills facing the farm sector.
All the three events are particularly relevant in South
India where farmers grow a number of crops, but face
problems in enhancing production and productivity
because of inadequate exposure to high technology
and inputs as also to advanced production practices,
logistics and marketing.
In, addition, shortage of labour is a major concern for
progressive farmers of South India who are ready to
offer more wages to labourers. Therefore, they are
forced to become machinery-dependent in their farm
operations. As a result, South India is emerging as one
of the hottest destinations as equipment.
In order to introduce latest mechanization &
technological innovations, Agri Tech India 2010
along with GrainTech India 2010 and India Foodex
2010 are closely interlinked, forming a composite
whole, encompassing the entire agriculture, food
September - 2010 Kisan Ki Awaaz
business from grower to the consumer. GrainTech
India was the display of post harvest management,
processing and value addition of grains. And India
Foodex was displayed its ambit production of good
quality food and ready to eat products.
Appropriately, “Food Security and Technology”, was
the focus of the Foodex 2010 and GrainTech 2010
exhibition & international conference that
successfully concluded on August 22 in Bangalore.
Organised by Media Today Group and supported by
the Union Ministry of Agriculture as principal sponsor
and its departments -- National Horticulture Mission,
Directorate of Farm Extension and NCPAH,
Horticulture Mission for North East and Himalayan
States and state horticulture missions, apart from the
Ministry of Food Processing Industries, APEDA and
All India Food Processors' Association (AIFPA).
Closely associated with organising the conference are
other important bodies that are involved in producing
and marketing of quality food products, both for the
domestic and global markets.
The organisations are: Indian Institute of Crop
Processing Technology, Roller Flour Millers'
Federation of India, the Solvent Extractors'
Association of India, the Soyabean Processors'
Association of India, Indian Oilseeds and Produce
Export Promotion Council, Indian Biscuits
Manufacturers' Association and Bharatiya Krishak
Samaj.
This was the first time in India that over 18 countries
having latest technology in grain milling, agri
processing, farm mechanisation, food processing and
packaging solutions were taking part to display their
wide range of products under one roof. The event drew
wide participation by food manufacturers, technology
providers and those from allied sectors like
packaging, processing and supply chain industry
from India and abroad.
Participating countries were Turkey, USA, UK, UAE,
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China, Japan, Korea, Italy, Canada, the Philippines,
Ethiopia, Germany, the Netherlands, Taiwan, Israel,
France and Spain among others. The three-day event
was inaugurated by Dr M Mahadevappa, Director,
JSS-Rural Development Foundation, Mysore.
The international conference on 'Food Security
through Technology' was inaugurated by Dr K
Narayana Gowda, Vice Chancellor of University of
Agricultural Sciences, Bangalore. In his key note
address, he appreciated the efforts of the organisers in
mobilizing wide participation from across the world.
He informed the delegates of the good work the
university has been doing for the betterment of the
farming community by increasing the productivity of
different crops.
The conference began with the welcoming address by
N M Kejriwal, Chairman, Kejriwal Group, and
Chairman, Permanent Stating Committee, AIFPA.
In his theme address, S Jafar Naqvi, Chief
Coordinator of the event, explained the overall
concept of this important exhibition and conference,
the need for use of technology to strengthen the
national food security system and adoption of latest
innovations world-wide that would be relevant to
India's farm sector.
In the first technical session on 'International and
Indian Scenario of food grains', renowned journalist
& economist G Chandrasekhar explained the role of
Centre and States in food grain management and
shared with the audience his rich experience and
thoughts on the subject.
The food grain losses and Indian dilemma was
elaborated by Sagar Kurade, Director, Suman Project
Consultants, a private consultancy firm providing
turnkey solutions for the food sector. One of his
suggestions was streamlining of the government
functioning with better coordination.
Saurabh Bhat of Yes Bank gave a presentation on
investment opportunities for creating storage
infrastructure through financing.
In his presentation, K Dattaraj, MD of Krishna Flour
Mills and former President of Karnataka Flour Mills
Association, gave an insight into roller flour mills
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industry's working and use of technology to
modernise this segment.
The theme of the second session was 'Infrastructure
support for food grain handling and storage'. The
opening speaker was Krishan Bir Chaudhary,
President, Bharatiya Krishak Samaj. Strongly
advocating the cause of small and marginal farmers,
Chaudhary explained the consequences of
multinational companies' involvement in Indian
agriculture, and corporate production and marketing
of agriculture produce.
Speaking on Public Private partnership in foodgrain
management, Anil K Choudhary, M D and CEO of
National Bulk Handling Corporation, made a plea for
PPP model in Indian perspective and his plans to
provide professional and prompt supply chain
management infrastructure.
Low-cost solutions for reducing the foodgrain losses
were elaborated by Avinash R. Wagh, Regional
Manager (India) of Philippines-based GrainPro Inc.
His stress was on hermetic storage solutions to solve
the Indian storage problem in the shortest time. He
said it would also help industrialists and exporters in
better product delivery.
'Industry and processing spectrum' was the subject of
the third session, opened by T Gopala Krishnan, Sr.
Engineer, Buhler India, one of the most prominent
grain milling solutions providers in the world. He
explained the latest technological innovations in
wheat and corn processing for value addition in India
and to cater to domestic needs.
The President of the All India Rice Exporters
Association (AIREA) Vijay Setia gave an in-depth
analysis of use of technology by Indian rice millers, its
benefits in the form of better export realisation and
overall development of rice farmers to get more
lucrative returns. He said this year also there would be
a major jump in Basmati exports and projected the
figure at 30 lakh tonnes.
New technologies for rice milling industries was the
subject of a presentation by Mudhu Kumar, Regional
Manager, GG Dandekar Machine Works, which is re-
launching its new machinery with the help of a young
and dynamic team of technocrats.
September - 2010
In another session on the same subject, G
Chandrasekhar made an analytical assessment of
Indian oil milling industry, oil imports and potential
for future expansions.
On Soyabean industry, D N Pathak, former Executive
Director of SOPA, indicated the trends in production
in India, status of the industry and new product
development opportunities as a popular food.
Nilesh Vira, President, Indian Oilseeds and Products
Export Promotion Council (IOPEPC), not only
displayed their strength at the expo, but also made an
effective presentation on the role of IOPEPC in
bringing about a transformation in oilseeds exports,
especially sesame seeds and peanuts. He said India
has become one of the most reliable and sustainable
suppliers by using latest technologies.
'New developments in grain milling technologies' was
the topic on which Anil Thakore, CEO, Forsberg Agri
Tech, made a presentation. He pointed that by proper
use of preparatory and cleaning solutions, Indian
millers would save the losses and deliver good quality
food for new generations.
A special session on Karnataka State Agri Business
Development Policy was planned by the organisers
and the State agriculture department under the
guidance of Dr K V Raju, Economic Adviser to the
Chief Minister, along with Abhijit Dasgupta,
Additional Chief Secretary & Development
Commissioner, Government of Karnataka, Dr G K
Vasantha Kumar, Additional Secretary (Food
Processing) and other senior officials. This was an
interactive session between the audience and those on
the podium to incorporate suggestions and technical
inputs from the participants while formulating the
policy.
In his speech Dr K V Raju congratulated the
organisers for “a very well organised exhibition and
good coordination, leading to productive
discussions.”
Here are some more interesting comments made by
experts and important trade executives during the
course of the event:
Abhijit Dasgupta, ACS & Dev. Commissioner:
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“Well organised meet. Lots of new equipments and
technologies are for display. Very much beneficial for
the farm sector.”
Dr G K Vasanthakumar, Addl. Secretary, Food
Processing: “Excellent show and good conference.”
Dr Krishan Bir Chaudhary, President, Bharatiya
Krishak Samaj: “Excellent exhibition and very
important seminar organised by Media Today Group.”
G Chandrashekhar, Commodity Editor, Hindu
Business Line: “Brilliant showcase of agri processing
technologies and surely beneficial for farmers and
industry.”
Dr M Mahadevappa, Director, JSS-Rural
Development Foundation: “I am delighted and
impressed to inaugurate this international standard
event, full of knowledge and technology display for
allfarmers to industry.”
N M Kejriwal, Chairman, Kejriwal Group and
Chairman, Permanent Standing Committee, AIFPA:
“I congratulate Media Today Group for this high
quality food and technology event and conference.”
Vijay Setia, President, All India Rice Exporters'
Association: “Excellent display of grain and rice
milling solutions from all across the globe and
domestic players. Keep it up.”
Nilesh Vira, President, Indian Oilseeds and Products
Export Promotion Council: “Good exhibition.
Different types of grain milling machineries are well
displayed. . .”
D N Pathak, Executive Director, AIREA: “My
compliments on organising a very successful
exhibition and conference. It was very useful to the
visitors who got to see at one place the wide range of
equipment and services. Congratulations.”
The organisers of AgriTech India, India Foodex and
GrainTech India are thankful to all exhibitors, trade
visitors, speakers and of course, supporting
organisations for making it a grand trade show of its
kind for Indian food industry. The organisers are quite
hopeful to return next year with more useful
participation and yes, with full of surprises.
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A Simple, Natural Treatment for Urinary Tract Health
* Dr. Mercola
T he effect of cranberry proanthocyanidins (PACs)
is dependent on the dose. Higher doses are
significantly more effective at maintaining
urinary health.
A new study supports the theory that at least 36
milligrams of proanthocyanidins (PAC) are needed to
reduce the adhesion of E. coli bacteria to urinary tract
walls. A lower dose proved to be less effective.
However, according to NutraIngredients:
“On the other hand, a higher dose of 72 mg was even
more efficient at protecting against bacterial adhesion in
the urinary tract, according to findings published in the
open-access journal BMC Infectious Diseases.”
Urinary tract infections affect up to half of all women
over the course of a lifetime and are responsible for 8
million doctor visits each year.
Women are more prone to urinary tract infections than
men, in part because of their shorter urethras. Adult men
have another factor going for thema bacterial growth
inhibitor injected directly into their urinary system by
their prostate glands.
You've probably heard that drinking cranberry juice can
be helpful in supporting a healthy urinary tract. Studies
do show that cranberry juice can help by promoting a
healthy flora.
What many studies fail to mention is that most cranberry
juice is loaded with fructose, a monosaccharide (simple
sugar) that can potentially lead to health problems.
So, in effect, you are trading good urinary health for
blood sugar instability, stress on your liver, and
increased uric acid levels that can raise your blood
pressure, along with other negative health sequelae.
That's why I don't recommend cranberry juice. It's not a
beneficial trade-off.
Honeymooners Rejoice!
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But there is a great discovery that has come from the
cranberry juice-urinary tract connection. The active
ingredient in cranberry juice responsible for its benefit to
your urinary system has been identified and isolatedand
that is D-mannose.
D-mannose can be derived from berries, peaches, apples,
and some other plants. Pure D-mannose is amazingly 10-
50 times stronger than cranberry, non-toxic and
completely safe, with NO adverse effects.
Why drink sugary cranberry juice if you can get the
active ingredient instead, with none of the damaging
metabolic consequences?
D-mannose can cure more than 90 percent of all UTIs
within 1 to 2 days!
The condition euphemistically called “Honeymoon
Cystitis” is now preventableno abstinence required.
D-Mannose: An Example of a Healthful Sugar
D-Mannose is not a drug. It's a naturally occurring sugar,
closely related to glucose and you even produce it in your
body. And very importantly, it does NOT produce the
metabolic stresses that fructose does because it's more
like glucose, which every cell in your body is designed to
use.
Your body absorbs D-mannose much more slowly than
glucose, and the D-mannose does not convert to
glycogen or get stored in your liver. Only very small
amounts of D-mannose are metabolized, so it doesn't
interfere with blood sugar regulation.
Most of the D-mannose is filtered through your kidneys
and routed to your bladder, then quickly excreted in your
urine.
D-mannose helps to nourish your healthy flora because it
doesn't affect “friendly” bacteria. It doesn't kill any
bacteriait just renders them unable to stay in your urinary
tract.
When you take antibiotics for a urinary tract infection
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(UTI), the good bacteria are killed along with the bad,
which is why you can develop secondary yeast
infections and digestive problems.
But how can a natural sugar combat a UTI?
The answer lies in how bacteria adhere to the inside of
your bladder.
A Sticky Situation to Control UTIs
More than 90 percent of all UTIs are caused by
Escherichia coli (E. coli), which is normally found in
your intestinal tract. Problems only arise when this
ordinary bacterium is present in high numbers in places
where it shouldn't belike your urinary system.
It should be noted that this is NOT the same E. coli
associated with killer outbreaks in unsanitary food
processing plants that is a mutant variety, probably
created by antibiotic overuse in our country. This E.coli
is typically a normal part of your gut flora and typically
is accidentally transferred to the bladder through lapses
in optimal hygiene.
When normal E. coli gets into your urinary tract and
multiplies, you experience the usual signs and symptoms
of a UTI:
 Burning with urination
 Frequent urges to urinate
 Lower abdominal pain or aching
 Blood in your urine (sometimes, but not
always)
 Cloudy urine
You might be wondering, if the bacteria are in my urine,
why doesn't my body simply flush them out when I
urinate?
As it turns out, the cell walls of each E. coli are covered mannose significantly raises blood mannose levels,
with tiny fingerlike projections called fimbria allowing
them to “stick” to the inner walls of your bladder and
even work their way upward to your ureter and kidneys..
Because they cling to your urinary organs, they can't
simply be washed out.
These little fingerlike projections are made of an amino
acid-sugar complex, a glycoprotein called lectin, which
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makes them sticky. Lectin on the bacteria's fimbria binds
to mannose, which is produced by your cells and covers
the internal lining of your urinary organs. This mannose
allows the bacteria to adhere to youlike Velcro.
Lenard and Wright describe what happens when you take
D-mannose:
“Now imagine what would happen to E. coli in the
urinary tract if those sweet little mannose molecules they
crave were present not just on the surface of the epithelial
cells but surrounding them in the urine as well. The E.
coli couldn't turn around without bumping into D-
mannose “just floating around” in the urine.
Unable to resist the tasty bait they suddenly find
themselves swimming in, they would latch onto the
nearest mannose molecules, and happily sail off into the
porcelain sunset. Those few E. coli left clinging to
mannose molecules on cells then become easy prey for
white blood cells and other agents of the immune
system.”
Research Backs up the Therapeutic Value of D-
Mannose
Physicians who employ natural therapies have been
using D-mannose since the mid-1980s with great
success. Laboratory studies have now confirmed what
these physicians and patients have known for many
years.
Consider the three following studies:
 Rats whose urinary tracts were inoculated with
E. coli were found to have significantly lower levels of
bacteria in their urine when given D-mannose than rats
given the inoculation without the D-mannose.
 E. coli infected rats given a mannose-like
substance showed a 90 percent reduction in bacterial
attachment in their urinary tracts.
 Research in humans shows that ingesting D-
which is what is needed to raise urinary mannose levels.
Antibiotics Should Be Your LAST Choice
Why avoid the use of antibiotics for a UTI whenever
possible?
There are are a number of very good reasons:
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1. Antibiotics are highly overused in humans and
pets, as well as in livestock, and this careless overuse has
created antibiotic-resistant superbugs like MRSA and
antibiotic-resistant tuberculosis.
2. Antibiotics kill the good bacteria, along with the
bad, as described earlier, setting you up for fungal
infections, diarrhea, and other digestive trouble.
3. Many antibiotics have terrible side effects and
can cause dangerous allergic reactions.
4. Antibiotic treatment does not successfully kill
all the bacteria participating in the infection and may, in
fact, encourage many of the bacteria to persist in a
resting state.
5. Using unnecessary antibiotics with children
prevents them from developing their own natural
defenses as their immune systems mature.
6. Physicians often prescribe newer, very
expensive antibiotics for UTIs instead of “old gold
standards,” which is a strain on your pocketbook.
The majority of urinary tract infections can be cured
when symptoms first arise, or prevented altogether by
practicing the natural measures outlined in this article.
Occasionally, despite preventative measures, a kidney
infection can develop. If you suspect you have a kidney
infectionespecially if you have a feverit might be
necessary to see a physician and employ an antibiotic so
the infection does not spread to your kidney and cause
some very serious problems.. .
How to Recognize a Kidney Infection
Urinary tract infections can affect any part of your
urinary tract, but the lower urinary tract is far more
commonspecifically, your bladder (cystitis) and urethra
(urethritis). Once in a while, a UTI can progress up to the
kidneys (nephritis or pyelonephritis), which is a more
serious infection and warrants a trip to your health care
provider.
Kidney infections can cause permanent kidney damage
and kidney failure if not promptly resolved, or can
spread to your bloodstream
. Http://articles.mercola.com/sites/articles/archive/20
In addition to the classic UTI symptoms listed earlier,
symptoms of kidney infection can include:
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
Fever

Back, side (flank) or groin pain

Abdominal pain
If you do use an antibiotic, it is important to take a high
quality, high potency probiotic to replace the beneficial
bacteria killed by the antibiotic. It is advisable to take the
probiotic as far from the antibiotic dose as possible. For
example, if you take your antibiotic at 8am and 8pm, take
your probiotic at 2pm to minimize the affects on it from
the antibiotic.
Steps to Promoting a Healthy Urinary Tract
As a woman, there are some specific hygiene steps you
can take to maintain a healthy urinary tract:

Drink plenty of pure, filtered water every day
 Urinate when you feel the need; don't resist the
urge to go
 Wipe from front to back to prevent bacteria from
entering your urethra
 Take showers instead of tub baths; avoid hot
tubs/Jacuzzis
 Cleanse your genital area prior to sexual
intercourse
 Avoid using feminine hygiene sprays, which
may irritate your urethra
 Use only white unscented toilet paper to avoid
potential dye reactions, or better yeta bidet
In addition, a healthy diet is key in supporting your
urinary tract.
Research shows that frequent consumption of products
containing probiotic bacteria can promote good urinary
tract healthfermented foods such as kefir, sauerkraut and
other fermented vegetables are great for your overall
healthincluding your urinary system.
99/12/31/a-simple-natural-treatment-for-urinary-
tract-health.aspx
September - 2010
GM-Spin Meltdown in China - World food crisis rerun?
B t cotton in China is often cited as an example
of a successful GM crop. In fact, its
widespread use has merely replaced the cotton
borer with a serious pest that not only attacks cotton
but also many other crops
The 'success' of Bt cotton short lived
Genetically modified (GM) crops not only present
serious dangers to health and the environment , they
have not delivered on their promises.
For all the investment and effort that has gone into
developing and pushing them, it is really only the
biotech industry that has profited, especially now that
GM crops are leading to serious problems with
herbicide resistant weeds and secondary insect pests in
the USA, the world's leading GM producer .
A detailed study on cotton growers in the US state of
Georgia published in 2008 found that no transgenic
technology system provided greater returns than a
non- transgenic system in any year or location .
The editor of Nature Biotechnology summed it up:
“This journal champions biotech research, so we are
not downbeat on its prospects to, one day, generate
products that will heal, fuel and feed the world. That is,
nevertheless, an outrageous act of faith bordering on
the religious.”
To support their claim that GM is the way forward, its
supporters often cite the example of what they claim is
the success of Bt cotton in India and China.
Bt cotton is genetically modified to produce a toxin
originating from the soil bacterium Bacillus
thuringiensis that kills the cotton bollworm
Helicoverpa armigera.
We are told that yields have greatly increased since Bt
cotton was introduced and that farmers' profits have
correspondingly gone up. Because farmers no longer
have to use pesticides against the bollworm, both their
health and the environment have improved.
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If Bt cotton really is an example of what GM crops
have to offer, then it is a warning rather than a promise,
because what actually happened is rather different. Bt
cotton has been disastrous in India. It has accelerated
farm suicides by increasing the farmers' burden of
debt.
Farmers were hit by successive crop failures and bad
harvests, exorbitant cost of GM seeds, secondary and
new pests, Bt-resistant pests, new diseases, and worst
of all, soils so depleted of nutrients that they
considerably reduce the productivity of crops planted
after Bt cotton is harvested .
Bt cotton was introduced into China in 1999 and its use
has spread rapidly; at present it has achieved 95 per
cent adoption in northern China. At first it seemed to
do what it says on the packet.
By the third year of planting Bt cotton, farmers had
reduced pesticide use by more than 70 per cent and
were earning 35 per cent more than farmers growing
non-GM cotton.
However, the bollworm is not the only serious pest that
attacks cotton. There are others, such as the mirid
(Apolygus lucorum) that are susceptible to the same
insecticides used to control the bollworm but not to the
toxin in Bt cotton.
When the farmers stopped spraying their cotton fields,
the number of mirids increased exponentially, posing a
serious threat not only to cotton, but also to other crops
such as apples, grapes, peaches, pears and Chinese
dates that mirids had never been a significant pest until
now.
Data from 38 sites for cotton and 77 sites for other
crops in northern China during the period 1997-2008
are plotted in Figure 1; the level of infestation was
assigned a score between 1 (no infestation) and 5
(extreme infestation).
Bt cotton fields have become refuges in which the
mirid populations could build up to ravage other crops
nearby.
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Figure 1 Association between mirid infestation on
cotton and other crops and the proportion of Bt cotton
grown in the region
Spraying as much after three years of Bt cotton
The farmers had to start spraying again, and by 2004,
they were using just as much pesticide as conventional
farmers.
Because they were paying three times as much for
their seeds, they now had net incomes on average 8 per
cent less than those of conventional farmers. You
could hardly ask for a better example of how the
beneficiaries of GM are neither the farmers nor the
consumers, but the biotech industry.
Spinning a Tale
This story also gives us an insight into the use of
science as spin by the pro-GM lobby, and in the most
prestigious mainstream scientific journals on both
sides of the Atlantic.
In 2008, the American Association for the
Advancement of Science (AAAS) held a news
briefing in Beijing to publicise a paper that had
recently been published in their journal Science.
According to the press release, the briefing was the
first event of its kind ever to be held in China.
Somebody obviously wanted this work to make a
big splash.
The paper, written by four Chinese scientists, was
entitled “Suppression of cotton bollworm in multiple
in China in areas with Bt toxincontaining cotton”.
The authors claimed that their data “suggest that Bt
cotton not only controls H. armigera on transgenic
cotton designed to resist this pest but also may reduce
its presence on other host crops and may decrease the
need for insecticide sprays in general.”
But by this time the mirid problem was widespread
and serious. Moreover, the authors were certainly
aware of it, for at the very end of their paper they
wrote:
“Nevertheless, as a result of decreased spraying of
broad-spectrum pesticides for controlling cotton
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bollworm in Bt cotton fields, mirids have recently
become key pests of cotton in China.
Therefore, despite its value, Bt cotton should be
considered only one component in the overall
management of insect pests in the diversified cropping
systems common throughout China.”
Strictly speaking, this does not contradict what the title
claims. Bt cotton does indeed appear to suppress the
cotton borer, as you would expect it to. What it does
not do, however, is help farmers make a better living.
It hardly seems worthwhile holding a press
conference, the first of its kind in the whole of China,
to announce such a modest result. So in order not to
spoil a good story, the organisers lost the bit about the
mirids.
In the press release they wrote instead: “Wu and the
team of researchers, however, acknowledge that a
major challenge to the success of Bt cotton is the
potential for insects to evolve resistance to the
insecticide.
They insist that despite its considerable value, Bt
cotton should still be considered only one component
in the overall management of pests.”
The scientists themselves were clearly concerned
about the mirid problem and carried on their research.
They reported their results in a second paper in
Science, entitled “Mirid bug outbreaks in multiple
crops correlated with wide-scale adoption of Bt cotton
in China”.
This paper describes precisely what its title promises.
No one appears to have organised a press conference to
publicise this result.
The scientists in China should take heed of the latest
finding by ecologists that the solution to pest control is
not a return to more spraying while continuing to grow
Bt crops, but to adopt organic non-GM agriculture (see
Organic Agriculture for Biodiversity and Pest Control)
Googlegroups.com
September - 2010
WHO scandal exposed: Advisors received kickbacks
from H1N1 vaccine manufacturers
* Mike Adams
A stunning new report reveals that top scientists
w h o c o n v i n c e d t h e Wo r l d H e a l t h
Organization (WHO) to declare H1N1 a
global pandemic held close financial ties to the drug
companies that profited from the sale of those
vaccines. This report, published in the British Medical
Journal, exposes the hidden ties that drove WHO to
declare a pandemic, resulting in billions of dollars in
profits for vaccine manufacturers.
Several key advisors who urged WHO to declare a
pandemic received direct financial compensation from
the very same vaccine manufacturers who received a
windfall of profits from the pandemic announcement.
During all this, WHO refused to disclose any conflicts
of interests between its top advisors and the drug
companies who would financially benefit from its
decisions.
All the kickbacks, in other words, were swept under
the table and kept silent, and WHO somehow didn't
think it was important to let the world know that it was
receiving policy advice from individuals who stood to
make millions of dollars when a pandemic was
declared.
WHO credibility destroyed
The report was authored by Deborah Cohen (BMJ
features editor), and Philip Carter, a journalist who
works for the Bureau of Investigative Journalism in
London. In their report, Cohen states, "...our
investigation has revealed damaging issues. If these
are not addressed, H1N1 may yet claim its biggest
victim -- the credibility of the WHO and the trust in the
global public health system.”
In response to the report, WHO secretary-general Dr
Margaret Chan defended the secrecy, saying that WHO
intentionally kept the financial ties a secret in order to
"...protect the integrity and independence of the
members while doing this critical work... [and] also to
ensure transparency.”
September - 2010 Kisan Ki Awaaz
Dr Chan apparently does not understand the meaning
of the word "transparency." Then again, WHO has
always twisted reality in order to serve its corporate
masters, the pharmaceutical giants who profit from
disease. To say that they are keeping the financial ties a
secret in order to "protect the integrity" of the members
is like saying we're all serving alcohol at tonight's AA
meeting in order to keep everybody off the bottle.It just
flat out makes no sense.
But since when did making sense have anything to do
with WHO's decision process anyway? Even Fiona
Godlee, editor of the BMJ, had harsh words for the
WHO, saying, "...its credibility has been badly
damaged. WHO must act now to restore its credibility.”
Yet more criticism for WHO
The BMJ isn't the only medical publication criticizing
WHO for its poor handling of conflicts of interest.
Another report from the Council of Europe
Parliamentary Assembly also criticized WHO, saying:
"Parliamentary Assembly is alarmed about the way in
which the H1N1 influenza pandemic has been handled,
not only by the World Health Organization (WHO), but
also by the competent health authorities at the level of
the European Union and at national level." It went on to
explain that WHO's actions led to "a waste of large
sums of public money, and also unjustified scares and
fears about health risks faced by the European public at
large.”
The funny thing is, NaturalNews and other natural
health advocates told you all the same thing a year ago,
and we didn't have to spend millions of dollars on a
study to arrive at this conclusion. It was obvious to
anyone who knows just how corrupt the sick-care
industry really is. They'll do practically anything to
make more money, including bribing WHO scientific
advisors and paying them kickbacks once the vaccine
sales surge.
The vaccine industry and all its drug pushers are, of
course, criticizing this investigative report. They say
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WHO "had no choice" but to declare a pandemic and
recommend vaccines, since vaccines are the only
treatment option for influenza. That's a lie, of course:
Vitamin D has been scientifically proven to be five
times more effective than vaccines at preventing
influenza infections, but WHO never recommended
vitamin D to anyone.
The entire focus was on pushing more high-profit
vaccines, not recommending the things that would
actually help people the most. And now we know why:
The more vulnerable people were to the pandemic, the
more would be killed by H1N1, thereby "proving" the
importance of vaccination programs.
People were kept ignorant of natural remedies, in other
words, to make sure more people died and a more
urgent call for mass vaccination programs could be
carried out. (A few lives never gets in the way of Big
Pharma profits, does it?)
How the scam really worked
Here's a summary of how the WHO vaccine scam
worked:
Step 1) Exaggerate the risk: WHO hypes up the
pandemic risk by declaring a phase 6 pandemic even
when the mortality rate of the virus was so low that it
could be halted with simple vitamin D supplements.
Step 2) Urge countries to stockpile: WHO urged
nations around the world to stockpile H1N1 vaccines,
calling it a "public health emergency.”
Step 3) Collect the cash: Countries spend billions of
dollars buying and stockpiling H1N1 vaccines while
Big Pharma pockets the cash.
Step 4) Get your kickbacks: WHO advisors,
meanwhile, collected their kickbacks from the vaccine
manufacturers. Those kickbacks were intentionally
kept secret.
Step 5) Keep people afraid: In order to keep demand
for the vaccines as high as possible, WHO continued to
flame the fears by warning that H1N1 was extremely
dangerous and everybody should continue to get
vaccinated. (The CDC echoed the same message in the
USA.)
This is how WHO pulled off one of the greatest vaccine
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pandemic scams in the last century, and it worked like
gangbusters. WHO advisors walked away with loads
of cash, the drug companies stockpiled huge profits,
and the taxpayers of nations around the world were left
saddled with useless vaccines rotting on the shelves
that will soon have to be destroyed (at additional
taxpayer cost, no doubt) or dumped down the drain
(where they will contaminate the waterways).
Meanwhile, nobody dared tell the public the truth
about vitamin D, thereby ensuring that the next
pandemic will give them another opportunity to repeat
the exact same scam (for yet more profit).
The criminality of the vaccine industry
The bottom line is all this is a frightening picture of just
how pathetic the vaccine industry has become and how
corrupt the WHO and the CDC really are. What took
place here is called corruption and bribery, folks.
Kickbacks were paid, lies were told and governments
were swindled out of billions of dollars. These are
felony crimes being committed by our global health
leaders.
The real question is: Why do governments continue to
allow public health organizations to be so easily
corrupted by the vaccine industry? And who will stand
up to this profit conspiracy that exploits members of
the public as if they were profit-generating guinea
pigs?
The next time you hear the WHO say anything, just
remember: Their advisors are on the take from the drug
companies, and just about anything you're likely to
hear from the World Health Organization originates
with a profit motive rather than a commitment to public
health.
Oh, and by the way... for the record, there has never
been a single scientific study ever published showing
that H1N1 vaccines worked. Not only was the H1N1
pandemic a fraud to begin with, but the medicine they
claimed treated it was also based on fraud. And now we
know the rest of the story of why it was all done:
Kickbacks from Big Pharma, paid to advisors who told
WHO to declare a pandemic.-- (NaturalNews)
Sources - Http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-
dy...
September - 2010
 La Via Campesina calls on social movements
and all people to mobilize around the world
The people create thousands of solutions to confront climate change!
Thousands of Cancuns for climate justice!
S ocial movements from around the world are
mobilizing for the 16th Conference of the
Parties (COP 16) of the United Nations
Framework Convention on Climate Change
(UNFCCC) that will take place in Cancun from 29
November to 10 December 2010.
The COP 15 in Copenhagen demonstrated
governments' incapacity to tackle the root causes of
the current climate chaos. At the very last moment,
the US undemocratically pushed through the so
called "Copenhagen accord", in an attempt to move
the debate out of the UN and the Kyoto promises and
to favor even more voluntarily free market solutions.
The climate negotiations have turned into a huge
market place.
Developed countries, historically responsible for
most of the greenhouse gas emissions are inventing
all possible tricks to avoid reducing their own
emissions. For example, the "Clean Development
Mechanism" (CDM) under the Kyoto protocol
allows countries to continue polluting and
consuming as usual, while paying low prices
supposedly so that developing countries reduce their
emissions. What actually occurs is that companies
profit doubly: to contaminate and to sell false
solutions.
Monsanto tries to convince us that monoculture
plantations of its GMO Roundup Ready soybeans
qualify for carbon credits because they contribute to
the reduction of greenhouse gases that heat the planet
by accumulating organic matter in the soil.
Communities living nearby soy monoculture
plantations are a living example of the mortal and
destructive effects of these monocultures. Similar
false arguments are used to sell carbon credits based
on forest monocultures, agrofuel crops, or industrial
animal production.
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Many governments of developing countries,
attracted by the potential profits, are betting on these
false solutions and refusing to implement measures
that effectively confront climate change, such as
supporting sustainable peasant agriculture, orienting
production towards internal markets, establishing
effective energy saving policies for industry, etc.
We demand the application of thousands of
people's solutions to climate change
It is now time for the United Nations Framework
Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC) to
embark on resolute policies to contribute to solve the
climate chaos. Countries need to take strong and
binding commitments to radically cut gas emissions
and radically change their mode of production and
consumption.
Climate change also is worsening the migration
crisis. The droughts, the terrible floods caused by
severe storms, water contamination, soil erosion and
degradation, as well as other destructive impacts of
the neoliberal environmental disaster, are bringing
about the displacement of thousands of people,
mainly women and ruined farmers, from their rural
communities and forcing them towards the cities and
the North in a desperate search for the means of
survival for them and their families. It is estimated
that 50 million people have been forced to migrate
due to the effects of climate change. These “climate
displaced people” have come to swell the ranks of the
more than 200 million human beings, according to
the International Organization for Migration (IOM),
that today represent the worse crisis of migration that
humanity has faced.
Solutions do exist. More than 35,000 people
gathered in Cochabamba, Bolivia at the People
Conference on Climate Change and for the Rights of
Mother Earth broadening new visions and proposals
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to save the planet. These thousands of solutions
coming from the people effectively confront the
climate crisis.
We demand that the UNFCCC endorse the
Cochabamba People's Agreement proposals and to
reject all false solutions being cooked up for the
moment. Among them:
Defend land and forest rights: The REDD +
initiative (Reducing Emissions from Deforestation
and Degradation) should be rejected. Protecting
forests and reforesting degraded forests is an
obligation of all governments that should be
implemented without limiting the autonomy, the
rights or the control of indigenous and peasant
peoples over the land and their territories, and
without serving as an excuse so that other countries
and corporations continue contaminating and
planting tree monocultures. Territorial and cultural
rights of indigenous and peasant peoples should be
explicitly recognized in any climate accord.
Reject geoengineering: Large-scale proposals to
deliberately alter the climate, such as biochar;
genetically modified plants to supposedly increase
reflectivity and resistance to drought, heat and salt;
the fertilization of the ocean or the massive creation
of clouds, only create new unmanageable problems,
they are not solutions. Geoengineering is only one
example of how transnational companies are willing
to play with the future of the planet and humanity in
order to create new sources profit.
Reject all carbon trading schemes and Clean
Development Mechanisms (CDM): Carbon trading
has proven extremely lucrative in terms of generating
investor dividends, but has completely failed in
reducing greenhouse gas. In the new invented
"carbon market" the price of carbon keeps dropping
to rock bottom, which encourages further pollution.
All carbon emissions should be reduced from the
source, rather than allowing payment for the right to
pollute.
Reject any participation of the World Bank in the
management of funds and policies related to climate
change.
We need millions and millions of peasant
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communities and indigenous territories to feed
humanity and cool the planet.
Scientific research shows that peasant and
indigenous peoples could reduce current global
emissions to 75% by increasing biodiversity,
recuperating soil organic matter, replacing industrial
meat production with small-scale diversified food
production, expanding local markets, halting
deforestation and practicing integrated forest
management.
Peasant agriculture not only contribute positively to
the carbon balance of the planet, it also gives
employment to 2.8 billion people, women and men
around the world, and it remains the best way to
combat hunger, malnutrition and the current food
crisis.
The right to land and the reclaiming for territories,
food sovereignty, access to water as a common good
and a human right, the right to use, conserve and
exchange seeds, the de-concentration and promotion
of local markets, are the indispensable conditions so
that peasant and indigenous peoples continue feeding
the world and cooling the planet.
Join us to organize thousands of Cancuns!
Together with diverse organizations we will set up in
Cancun, during the dates of the COP 15, the
Alternative Global Forum “For life, and
environmental and social justice”, which will unite
the force and resistance of peasant peoples of the
world, who are already cooling the planet.
We call on social movements, popular organizations
and all people of the world to organize on December
7, 2010, thousands of protests and actions to reject
the false and market-based solutions. We declare
ourselves in permanent mobilization until we defeat
the big market negotiations in Cancun in December.
Peasants are cooling down the planet!
Globalize the struggle!
Globalize hope!
September - 2010
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R.N.I.. No. DELENG/2009/30545

Save Tree, Save Water, Save Fuel,

To make the Earth Cool

To Save Farmers Rights,

To Save Land Rights,
To Save Food Rights,

Be the member of
Bharatiya Krishak Samaj
(A National Farmers Organisation)
By the Farmers,
Of the Farmers,
For the Farmers.

Dr. Krishan Bir Chaudhary

President,
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