Shiva is an anti-technology, anti-development ideologue whose track record includes opposition to the distribution of food aid to starving Indians because it included GM maize (the same maize regularly consumed by Americans and Canadians). She also opposes golden rice as a means to address vitamin A deficiency.

The data show that the green revolution contributed enormously to improvements in welfare in India. Poverty and malnutrition have fallen, food production has risen steadily faster than population, and in many years India is a net exporter of grains.
http://data.worldbank.org/country/india

The country’s food security has improved vastly since the days when eco-alarmists like Paul Ehrlich said we should give up on even trying to ameliorate famines in countries like India.

Yes, there have been problems with over-allocation of water and over-use of fertilisers in some areas. But these are due to poor policies, not rapacious multinationals. And they do not mean that the country as a whole is on the verge of ecological collapse.

Fair enough for your point of view, Rhian...after all, ideologues come in all shapes and sizes.

India is an burgeoning ecological disaster - and globalisation and multinational practice is up to its neck in it.