Food security and food sovereignty requires that the government procure food grains from farmers at fair prices based on just MSP, to provide food to the poor.I started Navdanya, and Bija Swaraj, the seed freedom movement in 1987 when I first heard of GATT and patents on seed. The lead US negotiator at the start of the Uruguay Round who shaped what became the WTO Agreement on Agriculture, was Dan Amstutz a former vice-president of agribusiness giant Cargill. We need to “transform” our food and agriculture system through a Jaivik Kranti — a revolution for life — to stop farmers’ suicides, hunger, malnutrition and disease.We are in a period of transition. As the Taitreya Upanishad tells us “everything is food”.

The CAG had assessed a Rs. Corporate imperialism goes hand-in-hand with government corruption.It is time to make a transition from corporate imperialism that is killing us, our farmers and life on earth, to earth democracy that sustains life. 1,200 crore fraud in the yellow pea dal import when UPA imported two million tons.

Cancun failed.But there is another transition at work. end-of Tags: farmers suicide, global hunger index, indian patent act. In 1998, the same year when BT cotton was illegally introduced by Monsanto, Cargill and Co assaulted our healthy edible oil economy, manipulating a ban on desi oils like mustard to flood the Indian market with unhealthy GMO soya oil and palm oil. After the Dunkel Draft of the GATT was leaked in 1991, I travelled the length and breadth of India to inform farmers about TRIPS and the Agriculture Agreement. The NDA government is importing six million tons. More farmers will commit suicide.James Enyart admitted that Monsanto and pharmaceutical giants wrote the Trade Related Intellectual property rights (TRIPS) agreement to create monopolies on seeds and medicines. As many as five lakh kacchi ghanis were shut.The ecological crisis, the agrarian crisis, the food crisis, the health and nutrition crisis, the crisis of democracy and sovereignty are not separate crisis. We have witnessed the illegal spread and failure of GMOs like BT Cotton. They are one. The fake dal is only seven per cent protein compared to our chana and tur with 25-35 per cent protein. The spread of junk food has led to an epidemic of non-communicable chronic diseases. A 10,000-year-old agroecology tradition of growing and giving good food as the highest dharma is being destroyed by an industrial globalised agricultural model which came from the war and has unleashed a war against the earth, our farmers and our bodies.

The Sanitary and Phytosanitary (SPS) agreement was drafted by the global food processing industry to displace sovereign food safety laws, criminalise local food systems and impose junk food on the people of the world through pseudo safety laws. No democratic society and no democratically elected government should allow its citizens to go hungry.Every rule of WTO that affects our daily bread was written by the Poison Cartel including Monsanto, the Merchants of Grain led by Cargill, and the junk food industry led by Pepsi, Coca Cola and Nestle. They want to force the Indian government to import toxic degraded GMO corn, soya, rice and wheat, sprayed with Monsanto’s Carcinogenic Round Up, traded by Cargill, for our PDS. In this war waged by the corporate empire, our small farmers, our annadatas, are on the frontline in defending our national security and food sovereignty. The language of food sovereignty, Anna Swaraj, emerged as a response to WTO — that farmers, communities, societies, countries have the right and the duty to grow good food in ecological ways for health and well being for all. We organised rallies in Hospet in Bengaluru, in Delhi to say “No” to the Agreement on Agriculture. The US has challenged India’s public stockholding for food security in the WTO. We organised a “sarson satyagraha” to protect our indigenous oilseeds and edible oil economy.A few years ago, a fake “yellow pea” dal started to get imported from Canada displacing our diverse dals, which we call the “The Pulse of Life”.

The scam has to be bigger. From the toxic rule of corporations that is killing the Earth, small farmers and people to the emergence of new paradigms and practices based on care for the Earth, the last species, the last child.Let 2018 be a year when we sow the seeds of our food sovereignty through swadeshi bija and swadeshi bhoj. Most suicides are in the cotton area, and most debt is for illegal royalty collection because Article 3J of the Indian Patent Act does not allow patents of seed.The web of life is a food web. The agrarian crisis will deepen. Cash transfers replacing public procurement will achieve what corporations are seeking. We need to “reform” the WTO rules of corporate globalisation. As in Seattle, we, as Diverse Women for Diversity, continue to say “the so-called “free-market” system is indeed a global war system, based on violence against nature, humanity, especially women and children.The last three decades of my work have been shaped by creating democratic and just alternatives to unfair and undemocratic rules of GATT/WTO, which were written by the corporations, for creating monopolies over our seed and food.India’s National Food Security Act is an important law that is supposed to guarantee the Right to Food to the last Indian citizen.”The Seattle China Waffle biscuit machine Manufacturers Ministerial failed because of people’s power. And people, especially the poor, pay the price with their very lives.Farmers’ rights to fair prices are thus structural to the Food Security Act. 2017 is giving way to 2018. Hong Kong failed. These corporate driven reforms have of course “transformed” India but in a destructive way. When it is ruptured by chemicals and poisons that come from war, and rules of “free trade” that is a war declared by corporations against the earth and humanity, biodiversity is wiped out, farmers are killed through debt, and people die either because of hunger or because of cancer, diabetes, heart problems, hypertension and other environment and food related chronic diseases. And they are connected through food. Every fourth Indian is hungry, every second Indian child is malnourished, and India now is at 100th rank on the Global Hunger Index. More than 300,000 farmers have committed suicide since 1995. More children will die of hunger.Two decades of corporate driven globalisation has destroyed the biodiversity and cultural diversity of our indigenous food systems, the health of people and the planet. Corporate imperialism cannot coexist with the “rights of mother earth” and human rights.At the Buenos Aires Ministerial MC, 11 northern countries tried to “pink wash” WTO to try and present corporate rule as women’s liberation. This was the message we took to Seattle. These unnecessary imports imposed by corporate cartels are a theft of our farmers’ livelihood and our nutrition. And now the Buenos Aires Ministerial has failed.Everyone is paying a very high price for corporate greed and dictatorship and collusion of corporate states to spread the toxic empire of corporations in the name of “reforms”. But corporations find new undemocratic ways to impose and spread their empire

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