Resources

SOME RESOURCES THAT WOULD BE USEFUL FOR PEOPLE ENGAGING WITH THE DEBATE

OFFICIAL COMMITTEES:

Task Force on Application of Biotechnology in Agriculture (2004)

Supreme Court’s Technical Expert Committee: Interim Report dated 07/10/2012 ; TEC Final Report covering letter dated June 30th 2013 and the Main Report along with its Annexure; Corrigendum dated 18th July 2013.

Parliamentary Standing Committee on Agriculture‘s 37th Report on “Cultivation of GM Food Crops: Prospects and Effects”, August 2012; Action Taken Report on the above, March 2014 (59th Report of the Committee in 15th Lok Sabha)

Parliamentary Standing Committee on Science & Technology, Environment & Forests’ 301st Report on “GM Crops and Impact on Environment“, August 2017

CIVIL SOCIETY MATERIALS

Slide deck on “SORRY STATE OF REGULATION OF GENE TECHNOLOGIES IN FOOD & FARMING SYSTEMS IN INDIA” (2019)

Presentation on “Bt Brinjal in India – Is it Safe? Is it Needed?” (2019)

“Need to Ban Glyphosate (in India)” – a presentation (2019)

Leaflets, Briefing Papers, Posters and Presentations on GM mustard are available here: http://indiagminfo.org/gm-mustard/ (2016-17)

“15 Years of Bt cotton in India: Admission of Failure is Official Now“: Report, June 2017 (Coalition for a GM-Free India)

Compilation of scientific evidences on adverse impacts of GM crops: Coalition’s compilation (Nov. 2013) and a Brazilian Government publication (2017)

“Can GM and Organic Co-Exist in India?”: booklet, August 2014 (ASHA and Jatan)

“Genetically Modified Foods and Crops: Some Facts That Everyone Should Know” is a brief booklet that explains various controversies related to GMOs. Centre for Sustainable Agriculture, 2013.

The Bt brinjal moratorium decision note of the Union Minister for Environment and the annexure that captures the outputs from the public consultations can be downloaded, from February 2010.

You can download an Introductory Handbook on Genetic Engineering in Indian Agriculture (2008) here. A hindi version of this handbook, more updated (2010) is available here.

A briefing paper on Bt brinjal (2006) can be downloaded here.

A briefing paper on Herbicide Tolerant GM crops and Monsanto’s GM maize which will be sought to be commercialised soon in India is available here.

A compilation of hundreds of published papers on the various adverse impacts of GMOs is available here.

For taking action against the entry of GMOs in our food and farming in India, please do visit www.iamnolabrat.com from where a petition to the Prime Minister of India can be signed.

Some useful videos, including documentaries from India related to Bt cotton and GM foods like Bt brinjal are listed at GMWatch on this link. The India-specific videos can be accessed here.

A recent national TV debate on GM mustard in Hindi is available here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Is8cgx62KIY