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Sharma: Talk By Devinder Sharma in March 2011
Audio, April, 21 2011
Devinder Sharma
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Talk at an international meeting in New Delhi in March 2011
Sharma: Whither India’s Farmers Movement?
Commentary, March, 23 2011
Devinder Sharma
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I still can’t understand. Mohammed Bouazizi, a 24-year-old vegetable seller in Tunisia, sets himself on fire...
Sharma: Caught In The Food Pirates’ Trap
Commentary, March, 02 2011
Devinder Sharma
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Egypt paid the price, so will we if we ignore the Mahatma’s prescription: production by the masses, not for the masses.
Sharma: Global Food and Farming Futures report creates panic to push GM crops.
Blog Post, January, 25 2011
Devinder Sharma
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I sometimes wonder why public money is allowed to be spent on promoting private business interests.
Sharma: G 20: Worried about Corporate, Not People
Commentary, November, 22 2010
Devinder Sharma
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I have always failed to understand why the governments have been lowering the interest rate on bank savings. In England, as early as in 1996, banks provided barely one per cent interest on savings.
Sharma: Obama’s India visit: US Merchants eyeing agriculture
Blog Post, November, 04 2010
Devinder Sharma
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Indian agriculture provides a sustained market for the US companies. What is good for the commercial interest of the US companies is not necessarily going to be productive for Indian farmers. But then, Indian Prime Minister Manmohan Singh has time...
Sharma: Rural India and Rural China: both battling against land acquisitions
Blog Post, October, 18 2010
Devinder Sharma
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Much of China and India, the two giants, is being rendered landless. Thanks to our political leaders, the masses are being pauperised so as to fill the pockets of the rich and influential. The profits that the rich garner in the process is counted...
Sharma: The Killing ways of micro-finance
Blog Post, October, 12 2010
Devinder Sharma
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Across developing countries all over the world, bullying tactics are being employed by the micro-finance institutions (MFIs). Because of the vested interest, and the general feeling that micro-finance is a pious initiative, the dark underbelly of ...
Sharma: True globalisation is when honest and good people come together
Blog Post, October, 10 2010
Devinder Sharma
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Globalisation has brought the rich and the crooked together. True globalisation would be when good people from across the globe come together.
Sharma: The Emergence Of A New Global Caste System
Commentary, October, 09 2010
Devinder Sharma
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If Shylock was alive today, I am sure he would have floated a public stock offering and would have been amongst the richest in the world. Forbes magazine would have certainly included his name in the list of the top 50 billionaires, and The Econom...
Sharma: Science Academies in India lobby to push GM crops in India
Blog Post, September, 27 2010
Devinder Sharma
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Following the moratorium imposed on what would have been India's first genetically-modified food crop -- Bt Brinjal, six Indian science academies were asked to prepare a report on GM crops. The report which came out last week has been accused of p...
Sharma: Absolute power comes from absolute control over food
Blog Post, September, 22 2010
Devinder Sharma
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The process of takeover of food simultaneously began on several fronts. It began with Green Revolution in the late 1960s, which was essentially to provide controlled technology to increase farm production in developing countries. This was followed...
Sharma: A Farming Model to Sustain the World
Commentary, January, 27 2010
Devinder Sharma
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Ten years from now, in 2020, when we try to look back, Indian agriculture can be transformed into a healthy and vibrant system where farmer suicides have been relegated to history, where distress and despondency has been replaced by the lost pride...
Sharma: Perils of GM Food
Video, January, 03 2010
Devinder Sharma
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Dr.Devinder Sharma in conversation with Ajay Kanchan on the perils of Genetically Modified Food
Sharma: India's Poverty Line is Actually a Starvation Line
Commentary, January, 02 2010
Devinder Sharma
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There is something terribly wrong with growth economics. After all, 18 years after India ushered in economic liberalisation, the promise of high growth to reduce poverty and hunger, has not worked. In fact, it has gone the other way around: the mo...
Sharma: Biggest Land Grab After Columbus
Commentary, November, 28 2009
Devinder Sharma
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I think the eulogisation of Tata's has gone too far. Behind all the glamour, sobriety and humanitariasm that we read and hear about Tata's, there is a dark hidden side which is kept under wraps. It is time we look at the destructive role Tata's ha...
Sharma: Mr Prime Minister, Your Policies Are Alienating The Tribals
Znet Article, November, 07 2009
Devinder Sharma
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Prime Minister Manmohan Singh often expresses his side of the dormant human face that lies somewhere burried deep inside him. A day before yesterday, as a Maoist bandh began in Orissa and in parts of West Bengal, Prime Minister acknowledged there ...
Sharma: The Missing Link: Climate Change vs Free Trade
Commentary, October, 31 2009
Devinder Sharma
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The countdown has begun. The forthcoming UN Climate Change conference (popularly called CoP 15) scheduled to be held at Copenhagen from Dec 7-18 2009 is generating tremendous excitement. Climate change has suddenly become the buzzword. As top poli...
Sharma: The Dr Borlaug I Knew
Commentary, October, 19 2009
Devinder Sharma
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The late agronomist Norman Borlaug, regarded as the father of the "Green Revolution", is credited with saving millions from starvation. Despite the criticisms of environmentalists, Borlaug had a strong appreciation for the centrality of farmers' l...
Sharma: India: Corruption drives economic prosperity
Commentary, May, 27 2009
Devinder Sharma
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Come to think of it. Over the last few years, there is more prosperity visible all around. More people have disposable incomes, more people are now travelling abroad, more people are flying around in the country, more people throng the super malls...
