http://dissidentvoice.org/2007/08/indias-agrarian-martyrs-are-you-listening/ a radical newsletter in the struggle for peace and social justice Sun, 22 Nov 2009 16:58:11 -0800 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.4 hourly 1 http://dissidentvoice.org/2007/08/indias-agrarian-martyrs-are-you-listening/#comment-4070 Survival Acres Blog » India: 17,707 Farmers Commit Suicide Tue, 14 Aug 2007 16:27:46 +0000 http://www.dissidentvoice.org/2007/08/indias-agrarian-martyrs-are-you-listening/#comment-4070 [...] There are three potential causes for the onset of these self-inflicted massacres: 1) exploitation by multinational agribusinesses 2) severe economic disparity and 3) a means of resistance by exposing the abuse of the agrarian sphere. In 1998, around the inception of mass farmer suicides, the World Bank imposed regulations that opened up India’s seed market to corporate multinationals like Monsanto. Non-renewable GM crops now replaced a self-sustainable farming system that had been perfected over thousands of years. India’s Agrarian Martyrs: Are You Listening? [...] [...] There are three potential causes for the onset of these self-inflicted massacres: 1) exploitation by multinational agribusinesses 2) severe economic disparity and 3) a means of resistance by exposing the abuse of the agrarian sphere. In 1998, around the inception of mass farmer suicides, the World Bank imposed regulations that opened up India’s seed market to corporate multinationals like Monsanto. Non-renewable GM crops now replaced a self-sustainable farming system that had been perfected over thousands of years. India’s Agrarian Martyrs: Are You Listening? [...]

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