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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: 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: 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...
