Gene Campaign is a grassroots-level non-profit

NGO A non-governmental organization (NGO) or non-governmental organisation (see spelling differences) is an organization that generally is formed independent from government. They are typically nonprofit entities, and many of them are active in h ...

in India, founded by

Suman Sahai Suman Sahai is an Indian activist and the founder of Gene Campaign. Career Sahai obtained a Ph.D. from the Indian Agricultural Research Institute in 1975. She then successively worked at the University of Alberta, University of Chicago, and t ...

and a group of people concerned about food and livelihood security. Gene Campaign works in the field of bioresources, farmers' and community rights, intellectual property rights and indigenous knowledge, biopiracy, regulations of GMOs, and impact of climate change on agriculture and food. Sahai continues to be a member of the group. The group has been an outspoken critic of the Indian government's policies on genetically engineered organisms.

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* {{Official website, http://www.genecampaign.org/ Agricultural organisations based in India 1993 establishments in India Environmental organizations established in 1993