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Sharma: From Jan 1, Indian Launches Direct Cash Transfer Of Subsidies. Is It Aimed At Scuttling Food Self-Sufficiency And Paving Way For Food Imports?
Znet Article, January, 01 2013
Devinder Sharma
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Cash-for-food will provide the smokescreen needed to accomplish what the WTO/World Bank/IMF have been telling India for a long time
Sharma: Are Corporations Holding the Global Economy for Ransom?
Znet Article, November, 17 2012
Devinder Sharma
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The US economy is in crisis and many businesses are sitting with record levels of cash on their balance sheets
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: Displacing farmers: India Will Have 400 million Agricultural Refugees:
Znet Article, June, 23 2007
Devinder Sharma
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Displacing farmers: India Will Have 400 million Agricultural Refugees:
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. ...
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 ...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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,...
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 ...
Sharma: Towards Cancun WTO Ministerial
Znet Article, August, 01 2003
Devinder Sharma
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At probably the last officially organized public symposium in Geneva (June 16-18) before the forthcoming WTO Ministerial at Cancun in early September, the writing is clearly on the wall: agricult...
Sharma: Gm Foods: Towards An Apocalypse
Znet Article, July, 19 2003
Devinder Sharma
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After taking control over one-third of the world's crude oil supplies and that too after a futile search for 'weapons of mass destruction', American President George Bush appears ready to take over the world's food market and that too by emotional...
