India, the GM-trashbin

While the world wakes to the human health and environment nuisance of genetically modified crops, India is fast turning into a dustbin for the new technology.

Rice and sovereignty

The grain that sustains more than half of the world's population may soon be owned and controlled by a private company.

Farms and jobs: Not much to feel good about

Hunger has emerged as robustly sustainable in the Southasian heartland.

Towards a Grey Revolution

The message from the Government of India is becoming clear: farmers get out of agriculture and make way for the contractors.

Flogging a dying horse of agricultural research

Globalising anger

WTO and agriculture

The Great Trade Robbery and the neo-poor.

Feeding profits

Eliminating not hunger, but the hungry

Nothing free or fair about it

A complicated and veiled system of tariffs allows Western countries to protect their tiny farming populations while millions of farmers in developing countries are swamped under a tide of cheap imports. Such systemic hypocrisy in …

The sustainability of hunger