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17th May 2011, 19:15
NaturalNews) Foundational changes that have taken place in the agriculture sector of India have led to a epidemic of farmer suicides over the past 16 years, according to a new report. Released by the Center for Human Rights and Global Justice at New York University's (NYU) Law School, the report explains that, on average, one Indian farmer commits suicide every 30 minutes in response to the devastation caused by the effects of globalization on agriculture, and genetically-modified organisms (GMO) in particular.
The report, entitled, "Every Thirty Minutes: Farmer Suicides, Human Rights and the Agrarian Crisis in India," (http://www.chrgj.org/publications/d... (http://www.chrgj.org/publications/docs/every30min.pdf)) explains that Indian policy has stripped many farmers (http://www.naturalnews.com/farmers.html) of their livelihoods by greatly decreasing the value of their crops (http://www.naturalnews.com/crops.html). Combined with the introduction of GM crops (http://www.naturalnews.com/GM_crops.html) that trap farmers into an endless cycle of debt (http://www.naturalnews.com/debt.html) without providing any substantial benefits (http://www.naturalnews.com/benefits.html), and you end up with a society marked by despair, hopelessness, and an increase in suicides.
What was once an agricultural system based on the diverse cultivation of natural (http://www.naturalnews.com/natural.html), beneficial food and use crops has morphed into a system of unsustainable cash-crop agriculture (http://www.naturalnews.com/agriculture.html). Countless millions of farmers began to adopt crops like Monsanto's Bt cotton, which recent studies have shown provide no benefits, but that lock farmers into a perpetual system of dependence that ends up bankrupting them (http://www.naturalnews.com/031266_G... (http://www.naturalnews.com/031266_GM_cotton_agriculture.html)).
Learn more: http://www.naturalnews.com/032422_GM_crops_suicide.html#ixzz1MdfdW600
The report, entitled, "Every Thirty Minutes: Farmer Suicides, Human Rights and the Agrarian Crisis in India," (http://www.chrgj.org/publications/d... (http://www.chrgj.org/publications/docs/every30min.pdf)) explains that Indian policy has stripped many farmers (http://www.naturalnews.com/farmers.html) of their livelihoods by greatly decreasing the value of their crops (http://www.naturalnews.com/crops.html). Combined with the introduction of GM crops (http://www.naturalnews.com/GM_crops.html) that trap farmers into an endless cycle of debt (http://www.naturalnews.com/debt.html) without providing any substantial benefits (http://www.naturalnews.com/benefits.html), and you end up with a society marked by despair, hopelessness, and an increase in suicides.
What was once an agricultural system based on the diverse cultivation of natural (http://www.naturalnews.com/natural.html), beneficial food and use crops has morphed into a system of unsustainable cash-crop agriculture (http://www.naturalnews.com/agriculture.html). Countless millions of farmers began to adopt crops like Monsanto's Bt cotton, which recent studies have shown provide no benefits, but that lock farmers into a perpetual system of dependence that ends up bankrupting them (http://www.naturalnews.com/031266_G... (http://www.naturalnews.com/031266_GM_cotton_agriculture.html)).
Learn more: http://www.naturalnews.com/032422_GM_crops_suicide.html#ixzz1MdfdW600