In June 2014, I sat next to Shiva on our way to Warangal, a regional capital in Telangana, India, where we would buy cotton seeds. Encouraged...

Despite finding huge favour in India, the GM crop has only brought modest benefits. Cotton has been woven and used in India for thousands of years....

In Mexico, acquired herbicide resistance and insecticide genes can disrupt cotton’s ecosystem. Cotton plants native to Mexico’s Yucatan Peninsula may all look the same — unkempt...

Nishanth Chopra grew up in a city that’s seeing record cancer rates. But it’s not a coincidence, he says. “I don’t think I would have been...

Western consumers over the years have become increasingly aware of the relationship between food production practices and health, both human and environmental. They have come to...

Kala cotton is also known as the ‘old world’ cotton, is an indigenous species found in the district of Kutch situated in Gujarat. As misleading as...