Resources
Leaflets/Posters
Documents/Reports
Must See
Useful Links
Documents/Reports
Downloadable documents
- An Introduction To Pesticides
- Sample of (recent) independent studies in India on Pesticide Residues (compiled for India For Safe Food, 2012)
- Pesticide Residues in Vegetables in Delhi (2003)
- Joint Parliamentary Committee Report on Pesticide Residues (2004)
- Slow Poisoning by Slack Standards (Consumer Voice, 2010)
- Summary of Monitoring of Pesticide Residues at national level, 2010 (downloaded from FSSAI website)
- Pesticide Use in the Rice Bowl of Kerala: Health Costs and Policy Options (2007)
- Kerala's Ban Order on some Pesticides on 7th May 2011
- Safe Food Guide (Greenpeace 2010 on food brands to watch out for in the context of GM foods)
- WHO classification of pesticides by hazards (2009)
- Pesticides and the Immune System (World Resources Institute, 1996)
- Systematic review of pesticides human health effects (Ontario College of Family Physicians, 2004)
- Vegetables, India's Poisoned Staple (Consumer Voice, 2010)
- FSSAI regulation on residues, 2011
- Poison Vs. Nutrition (Briefing Paper of CSE)
Chemical Pesticides
- Database on health effects of occupational exposure to pesticides (NIOH report)
- Killing & Maiming Insects or Humans (CSA report on acute poisoning)
- Pesticides & Health (Envis newsletter, NIOH)
- Pesticide pollution: Trends & Perspective (ICMR bulletin)
- End of the road for Endosulfan (EJF report)
- Endosulfan Fact Sheet (Thanal report)
- Analysis of Pesticide Residues in Blood Samples from Villages in Punjab (CSE report)
- Effects of Pesticides Exposure on Developmental Task Performance in Indian Children (a Greenpeace India investigation)
- Pesticides in Agriculture: A Boon or a Curse? (a case study of Kerala, EPW)
- Poisoned by Pesticides
- Regulation of Pesticides in India (CSE report)
- Pesticides, Residues & Regulation (CSA report)
- Pesticide Poisoning in Yavatmal: Report 12-Oct-2017
Organic ecological farming
- Ecologically sound, economically viable community managed sustainable agriculture
- Village Punukula's different: Managing yields without pesticides (DTE cover story)
- Out of the trap: Andhra farms show the future of pest management â it does not have pesticides (DTE cover story)
- No Pesticides, No Pests
- In India, bucking the "revolution" by going organic
- Can organic farming feed us all?
- The multiple functions and benefits of small farms
- Evaluation of crop production systems based on locally available biological inputs
- Enduring Farms: climate change, smallholders and traditional farming communities
- Sustaining agriculture in the era of climate change: civil society position paper (India)
- Energy use in organic food systems, FAO, 2007
- Low greenhouse gas agriculture: Mitigation and adaptation potential of sustainable farming systems, FAO, 2008
- Papers submitted: international conference on organic agriculture and food security, FAO, 2007
- Report of International Conference on Organic Agriculture & Food Security, FAO, 2007
- Annam Bahu Kurvita (Recollecting the Indian Discipline of Growing and Sharing Food in Plenty)
- On Millets
Others
- NPM methods
- NPM scaling up in Andhra Pradesh
- Sustainable Agriculture with Provincial resources - Organic Manures, Plant Extracts, Decoctions/Concoctions by Centre for Sustainable Agriculture
- Micro solutions for Macro Crisis Sustaining Small and Marginal Farmers in Andhra Pradesh June, 2008 - Report by Centre for Sustainable Agriculture Hyderabad, India
- Paradigm shift in farming practices in the context of Climate Change - a Case study from Enabavi Village in Andhra Pradesh by Centre for Sustainable Agriculture
- My Right To Safe Food - Issued in Public Interest by Coalition for a GM-free India