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Commentary Sharma: WTO: Doha Destructive Round

Commentary, July, 26 2006 Devinder Sharma
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Expressing hope over efforts to revive the deadlocked World Trade Organisation (WTO) negotiations, Indian Prime Minister Manmohan Singh said: "Development dimension must get the prominence and attention -- not in term of words, but in terms of so...

Commentary Sharma: The New Pascal Law

Commentary, April, 19 2006 Devinder Sharma
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He came, he spelled out his bias and yet he threatened. Pascal Lamy hasn't changed. Unable to throw away the grotty hat he had been wearing all these years, as trade commissioner for the European Union, he now operates as if he is the chief trade ...

Commentary Sharma: Pushing Farmers Out of Farming

Commentary, March, 26 2006 Devinder Sharma
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Forty years after the first Green Revolution was launched, Indian agriculture is faced with an unprecedented crisis. Unmindful of the destructive prowess of the alient technology, the impact of which is being felt all over the country - farm incom...

Znet Article Sharma: Indian Villages For Sale

Znet Article, February, 12 2006 Devinder Sharma
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Harkishanpura is a non-descript village in Bathinda district of Punjab in northwestern India. It suddenly made its way into news when in an unprecedented move the village panchayat announced that the village was up for sale. That was in Jan 2001. ...

Commentary Sharma: Sanity: Hong Kong Ministerial

Commentary, December, 24 2005 Devinder Sharma
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Much Ado About Nothing

Commentary Sharma: Farm Subsidies: The Report Card

Commentary, November, 27 2005 Devinder Sharma
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Britain's Queen Elizabeth II is not a farmer, but she is amongst the highest recipient of agricultural subsidies. In 2003-04, she received nearly US $ 1.31 million in farm payments. Her son and heir apparent to the British throne, Prince Charles, ...

Commentary Sharma: Technology Has Its Pitfalls

Commentary, August, 24 2005 Devinder Sharma
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In a desperate effort to seek a permanent seat in the UN Security Council, Indian Prime Minister Dr Manmohan Singh has signed a deal with the United States. Addressing recently a joint session of the US Congress, he said: "The Green Revolution lif...

Znet Article Sharma: The Business of Hunger

Znet Article, June, 26 2005 Devinder Sharma
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It was too late. By the time, Jai Lal, a landless agricultural worker of Bandali village, in Sheopur district of Madhya Pradesh, in the heartland of India, returned to share the good news with his wife – that he finally managed to get a ...

Commentary Sharma: World Bank’s Latest Passion

Commentary, December, 20 2004 Devinder Sharma
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In tune with the world’s latest fad, the World Bank prominently displays a slogan in its Washington DC office: ‘The purpose of the World Bank is to fight poverty with passion.’ World Bank is no exception. In fact, such has ...

Znet Article Sharma: And Now Subsidy Entitlements!

Znet Article, September, 28 2004 Devinder Sharma
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Probably drawing inspiration from the influential work of Nobel laureate Amartya Sen, European Union is using the same principles to reform its notorious Common Agricultural Policy (CAP). While Sen’s entitlement theory focuses on the soc...

Znet Article Sharma: WTO Tricks

Znet Article, August, 25 2004 Devinder Sharma
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After a ‘truly historic’ agreement, it is now an embarrassing wake-up call for the developing countries. The big boys have done it again. This time, they have successfully managed to apply the dope trick on the developing countries...

Znet Article Sharma: India's Agrarian Crisis

Znet Article, June, 28 2004 Devinder Sharma
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Andhra Pradesh chief minister Y.S.Rajasekhar Reddy is in a quandary. Ever since he took over as the chief minister more than a month, on May 14, more than 300 farmers have committed suicides. This was the official death toll in the suicides regist...

Znet Article Sharma: Genetically Modified Crops in India

Znet Article, April, 03 2004 Devinder Sharma
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Opinion is divided on whether genetic engineering and genetically modified (GM) crops offer a solution to hunger in the developing countries. Devinder Sharma, a former visiting fellow at the International Rice Research Institute and Cambridge Univ...

Commentary Sharma: Gm Crops: If It Can’t Work, Fake It

Commentary, March, 08 2004 Devinder Sharma
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For years, they made us believe that genetically modified (GM) crops reduce pesticide applications and thereby help in protecting the environment. For years, they worked hard, manipulating scientific data, to justify the increasing public investme...

Znet Article Sharma: Food as Political Weapon

Znet Article, March, 03 2004 Devinder Sharma
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Devinder Sharma is a journalist, writer, thinker, and policy analyst who plays a crucial role in the global effort to turn back ill-advised neoliberal trade policies and biotechnology. Trained as an agricultural scientist, Sharma served as the dev...

Znet Article Sharma: We are the cause of hunger

Znet Article, February, 01 2004 Devinder Sharma
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In the mid 1980, the sale of Banita, a minor girl from Kalahandi in Orissa, had shocked the nation. Two decades later, the nation refused to even notice the cries of a one month old baby who was sold by her mother for a mere Rs 10 (approximately 2...

Znet Article Sharma: Farmer's Suicides

Znet Article, January, 24 2004 Devinder Sharma
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The recent spate of suicides that began in Karnataka in south India, part of a serial death dance that continues to enacted  in the provinces of Andhra Pradesh, Maharashtra, Madhya Pradesh, Orissa, Punjab and Haryana, has failed to stir the n...

Znet Article Sharma: Biotechnology will bypass the poor

Znet Article, September, 29 2003 Devinder Sharma
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India's former Prime Minister, the late Mr Morarji Desai, strictly followed an unwritten principle. He would not inaugurate any conference, whether national or international, which did not focus on rural development. It so happened that it was dur...

Znet Article Sharma: Cancun Fiasco

Znet Article, September, 16 2003 Devinder Sharma
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The big boys have returned home, this time empty handed. They have vowed to return back. And obviously, like 'Morgan, the Pirate' who dominated the high seas in that yesteryear's Hollywood blockbuster, the four big trade bullies - United States,...

Znet Article Sharma: WTO and Agriculture

Znet Article, September, 02 2003 Devinder Sharma
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As expected, the United States and the European Union have arrived at a new accord, just ahead of the fifth WTO Ministerial at Cancun, which in letter and spirit lays out a detailed road map for what can be called as the second phase of the great ...

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