Gene Campaign, a grassroots level organisation with a presence in 17 states of India, was started in 1993 by Dr. Suman Sahai and a group of people concerned about food and livelihood security. Gene Campaign is recognized as a leading research and advocacy organisation working in the field of bioresources, farmers' and community rights, intellectual property rights and indigenous knowledge, biopiracy, issues related with GE food and crops.

FEEDING A HOT AND HUNGRY PLANET

The Challenge of Making More Food and Fewer Greenhouse Gases -  April 29–May 1, 2009, Princeton University

As part of the Bert G. Kerstetter ’66 Ethics and the Environment Lecture Series, the Princeton Environmental Institute (PEI) hosted a one-day symposium and a two-day conference on campus (both events are open to the public, registration suggested) that explored the scientific, policy and ethical questions presented by the need to greatly boost food production to feed a growing world population while reducing agriculture’s contribution of about 30 percent of the world’s greenhouse gases.

See– Suman Sahai- "Governance of Agbiotechnology in India" 

Gene Campaign study preview : Attitude and Perception study on GMOs

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

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65% respondents think Government should monitor GM crops/foods.
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19% think that scientists should do this monitoring.

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 7% think that companies should do this monitoring.  
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 Only 3% think that NGOs should do monitoring.