Enough! Don’t allow GMO mustard
By Dr Vandana Shiva – The Asian Age, 9 August 2017 | Source Ignoring the recommendations of the Technical Expert Committee of the SC is, in effect, contempt of court.
The fight against GM mustard in India is crucial for the global war on GMOs
By Ruchi Shroff – LifeGate, 1 August 2017 | Source If approved, GM mustard would become the first GMO to enter India’s food chain: this is why the fight doesn’t involve India alone but the whole world. Amidst the...
The Farmers’ Crisis
By Dr Vandana Shiva, 5 July 2017 | Source Indian civilisation is based on gratitude, to our farmers and all beings who contribute to our food. “Annadata Sukhibhava”. We believe in “Uttam – Kheti, Madhyam – Vyapar, Neech –...
Resistance to GM Mustard in India
By Ruchi Shroff, 29 June 2017 Amidst the desperate push by biotech lobbies to impose GM Mustard in India, Navdanya along with multiple civil society organizations is once again on the frontline to resist the GM Mustard. A herbicide...
Protect farmers, don’t target them
By Dr Vandana Shiva – The Asian Age, 23 June 2017 Now farmers have started to awaken the nation to the farming crisis with strikes in Maharashtra and Madhya Pradesh.
Why Sarson Satyagraha is still needed
If GMO mustard is approved, India as a democratic, sovereign country dies.
Biodiverse Small ecological farms and Artisanal Processing feed the world, not corporations
Press Release New Delhi, 27 May 2017: Over the last few decades, in the name of feeding the world, giant corporations have created hunger, spread chronic diseases and are killing the planet. As Dr Mira Shiva one of the...
Navdanya condemns GEAC decision on GM Mustard – writes to Environment Minister
“ Navdanya with the National Women’s Alliance for Food Sovereignty (Mahila Anna Swaraj) started the Sarson Satyagraha to bring back our pure mustard oil. The first bottle of the Satyagraha Mustard Oil was gifted to the then Chief Minister...
Satyagraha Yatra 2017, a pilgrimage for Seed Freedom and Food Freedom
Navdanya along with civil society organizations, farmers, economic democracy movements, universities and state governments undertook on 13 April a 10-day pan-India pilgrimage, a Satyagraha Yatra, to promote Gandhian philosophy of Swaraj (sovereignty), Swadeshi (indigenous) and Satyagraha (force of truth).
Monsanto illegally Introduces Round Up Resistant GMO Cotton in India
New Delhi: On the occasion of World Health Day, 7 April, Navdanya along with Swadeshi Jagran Manch appeals to Prime Minister Narendra Modi to ban Monsanto on account of its illegal introduction of herbicide tolerant GMO Round-up Ready Flex...