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Editor: Dr. G.G. Parikh | Associate Editor: Neeraj Jain | Managing Editor: Guddi
‘Shocking Corruption and Violation of Ethics in Regulatory Work Concerning GM Crops’; and: ‘Turning Healthy Food into Disease Causing Food—The Case of GM Corn’.
Once the producer of 90% of the world’s soybeans, China today has become the world’s biggest importer. This change is the result of manipulation of soybean production, supply and marketing chain by multinational food magnates.
Food prices are rising due to a combination of an engineered food crisis for geopolitical reasons, financial speculation by hedge funds, and profiteering by global grain trade conglomerates. In addition, agribusiness forms are using this crisis as an opportunity to promote GE technologies.
Ecologist Debal Deb speaks about farmers’ autonomy, the importance of native seeds to material and food culture, and the government’s approach to sustainable agriculture.
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