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    • Sunday, Sep 20, 2009
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      Offset Schemes Require the Poorest to be Twice Burdened
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    • Sunday, Aug 13, 2006
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      The issue of toxics and poisons in our food system has once again moved to the contre of national concern. CSE's study on pesticides in Coke and Pepsi shows that three years after the Joint Parliamentary Committee, no action has been taken by the ...
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    • Sunday, Jul 30, 2006
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      The Doha round negotiations collapsed once again at the Mini Ministerial in Geneva on 23rd July 2006. Martin Khor of Third World Network reports from Geneva that when asked of the Doha Round is dead or in intensive care, Mr. Kamal Nath, India's Co...
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    • Wednesday, Jun 21, 2006
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      Wheat is called "Kanak" or gold in India, both because fields of wheat look like fields of gold as the "Rabi" (Winter) crop ripens in North Indian farms, and also because wheat is the farmers gold in the land of the 'roti' and 'chapatti'. As the ...
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    • Monday, Dec 12, 2005
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      The WTO Ministerial at Hong Kong has already failed. For the corporate world it has failed because smaller, poorer developing countries are starting to have a say in outcomes of WTO negotiations. With the backing of peoples power on the streets th...
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    • Monday, Feb 21, 2005
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      Food laws and Food Safety for India’s diverse and local food economy The Government has drafted a Food Safety and Standards Bill 2005 as an “Integrated Food Law” which has been prepared with the intention to be contempora...
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    • Monday, Feb 14, 2005
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      Since the beginning of farming, farmers have sown seeds, harvested crops, saved part of the harvest for seeds, exchanged seeds with neighbours. Every ritual in India involves seeds, the very symbol of life’s renewal. In 2004 two laws hav...
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    • Friday, Jan 21, 2005
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      On 5th December 2004, I was honoured with the Basavashree Awar...
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    • Tuesday, Jun 29, 2004
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      Dear Shri Chidambaram ji, You have announced a "bail-out" package for Indian farmers, thousands of whom have taken their lives in distress and hopelessness, by asking the banks in the commercial, cooperative and public sector to increase their ru...
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    • Thursday, Feb 19, 2004
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    • Wednesday, Nov 19, 2003
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      When tens of thousands filled the streets of Seattle to protest a summit of the World Trade Organization (WTO) in 1999, many news reports focused on the spectacle of the moment — the tear gas in the air, the smashed storefront windows, the...
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    • Wednesday, Nov 20, 2002
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      In India we worship cow dung as Lakshmi, the goddess of wealth. Gobur-dhan puja is literally the worship of gobur (cowdung) dhan (wealth). Cow dung is worshipped because it is the source of renewal of soil fertility and hence the sustainability ...
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    • Saturday, Nov 02, 2002
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      Deconstructing Market Access
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    • Tuesday, May 14, 2002
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      Oxfam International's report "Rigged Rules and Double Standards" on Trade, globalisation and the fight against poverty is a brave attempt at combining two paradigms. However, when two paradigms are incommensurate, putting them together only create...
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    • Saturday, Feb 23, 2002
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      The Bankruptcy of Globalisation Globalisation was projected as the next great leap of human evolution in a linear forward march from tribes to nations to global markets. Our i...
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    Born in India in 1952, Vandana Shiva is a world-renowned environmental leader and thinker. Direct... more


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