Agribusiness, GMOs, and their Role in Development: Crash Course Geography #41

On November 26, 2020, trade unions in India reported that over 250 MILLION people took part in a strike. What could prompt such massive protest? Farming. Today, we’re going to take a closer look at GMOs, which are organisms whose DNA has been modified in a laboratory, and examine the impact of one GMO in particular, Bt Cotton, in the agrarian crisis in India. SOURCES GEOGRAPHY BOOKS Knox and Marston 2016: Human Geography Place and Regions in a Global Context. 7th Edition. Pearson FARMER SUICIDES Center for Human Rights and Global Justice, Every Thirty Minutes: Farmer Suicides, Human Rights, and the Agrarian Crisis in India (New York: NYU School of Law, 2011). SEEDSShiva, Vandana. 2016. Stolen Harvest: The Hijacking of the Global Food Supply. University of Kentucky Press https://grain.org/en/article/6644-booklet-upov-the-great-seeds-robbery UPOV https://www.upov.int/about/en/faq.html US COTTON PRODUCTION https://www.ers.usda.gov/topics/crops/cotton-wool/cotton-sector-at-a-glance/ https://farm.ewg.org/progdetail.php?fips=00000&progcode=cotton US SUBSIDIES https://publish.illinois.edu/illinoisblj/2012/02/02/united-states-last-chance-to-save-cotton-subsidies/ WTO MEMBERSHIP https://www.wto.org/english/thewto_e/whatis_e/tif_e/org6_e.htm FREE TRADE https://oxfamilibrary.openrepository.com/bitstream/handle/10546/112391/cr-rigged-rules-double-standards-010502-en.pdf;sequence=18 Watch our videos and review your learning with the Crash Course App! Download here for Apple Devices: https://apple.co/3d4eyZo Download here for Android Devices: https://bit.ly/2SrDulJ Crash Course is on Patreon! You can support us directly by signing up at http://www.patreon.com/crashcourse Thanks to the following patrons for their generous monthly contributions that help keep Crash Course free for everyone forever: Dave Freeman, Hasan Jamal, DL Singfield, Lisa Owen, Jeremy Mysliwiec, Shannon McCone, Amelia Ryczek, Ken Davidian, Stephen Akuffo, Toni Miles, Erin Switzer, Steve Segreto, M