NPR Report Discusses How India’s Farming System is Heading for Ecological and Economic Collapse

Tuesday, April 14th, 2009

“Nobody was surprised when environmental activists said the green revolution is crashing. But people were stunned when governmental officials agreed.”
Part 1: India’s Farming ‘Revolution’ Heading For Collapse
Part 2: ‘Green Revolution’ Trapping India’s Farmers In Debt
This is a very interesting two-part series from NPR discussing how the “green revolution” in India is unsustainable, and heading [...]

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CLF’s 9th Dodge Lecturer Vandana Shiva: Sustainable Local Food is Imperative

Wednesday, March 4th, 2009

At the 9th annual Dodge Lecture yesterday at the Johns Hopkins School of Public Health (video will be posted on CLF’s website soon), world renowned scientist and environmentalist Vandana Shiva stated that the most important issues in sustainable agriculture today are the disappearance of nutrition in food (a major public health concern) and localization of [...]

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