Rice Information Materials: Rice Grains
Rice Lands: Still Under Siege
Most of the rice lands in Asia are small and marginal holdings. Rice is grown under various conditions, at different altitudes and in different soils across the continent.
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For Asians, life is unimaginable without rice. Every day, we have rice for breakfast, lunch, and dinner, even for snacks and dessert. Rice is the staple food of almost half of the world's population and a source of livelihood for millions of small rural rice farmers who have sustained us for centuries.
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Liberty Link Rice: A True Story of GE Rice Contamination
Liberty Link, a genetically modified (GM) variety of rice developed by Bayer CropScience, a German agri-business giant, is at the centre of a worldwide scare caused by its contamination of rice crops.
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The Impact of Globalisation on Rice: An Introduction
For thousands of years, rice has been grown around the world. It is the staple food for three billion people, most of them in Asia. Rice is part of the culture and daily lives of its cultivators and consumers alike. But today, rice has become a burden to grow for farmers in Asia. This is because the World Trade Organization (WTO) has allowed industrialised countries to dump cheap rice in domestic markets all over the region. Local rice farmers cannot sell their rice and are being evicted out of their lands or forced to work in plantations for miserable wages to grow non-food crops.
The Impact of the Agreement on Agriculture on Small Rice Farmers in Asia
As the World Trade Organisation’s Doha Round of trade talks, which stalled last year, is being pushed to a stuttering start, agriculture remains a sticky point. Trade negotiators from leading WTO embercountries are busy making deals behind the scenes in an effort to break the deadlock. And developing countries are being enticed to break ranks and move away from their stated common positions on agricultural trade in return for some paltry trade concessions offered by the developed countries.
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