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Stories by Mira Kamdar
How One Region Has Gone from Breadbasket to Food Crisis
Posted on May 15, 2008, Source: OneWorld.net
At the heart of the story is pesticide poisoning, water shortages, soil salinity, fertilizer runoff, skyrocketing cancer rates and farmer suicides.