President Obama and India's Prime Minister Modi are best of friends - aren't they? So how come the US took India to the WTO's trade court - and just won a resounding victory? And why isn't India challenging the US's own discriminatory solar subsidies? It's because of the money, writes Charles Pierson. And poor India has no choice but to play by Washington's rules.
… Crushed: the US and the WTO demolish India's solar energy ambitions Charles Pierson | 5th September 2015 News India USA Energy Solar Finance Trade … President Obama and India's Prime Minister Modi are best of …
President Obama will shortly be on his way to India. In this Open Letter, Vandana Shiva invites him to join in securing the essential human freedoms to seeds and food - and to set aside any plans to pressure India into changing its laws to allow the corporate domination of life.
… 23rd January 2015 Comment Food Farming Seeds India USA Human Rights Law … President Obama will shortly be on his way to India. In this Open Letter, Vandana Shiva … food - and to set aside any plans to pressure India into changing its laws to allow the …
India's food system, essentially clean just a generation ago, has been comprehensively contaminated with sugar, bad fats, synthetic additives, GMOs and pesticides under the country's neoliberal 'great leap forwards', writes Colin Todhunter. The result? a surge in obesity, diabetes and cancer incidence, but no let-up in the under-nutrition of those too poor to join in the over-consumption.
… India: obesity, malnutrition and the … | 4th April 2016 Comment Food Farming India Trade GMOs Health Pesticides Toxics mcdonalds-india-cut.jpg India's food system, essentially …
The era of mass consumption has reached India, bringing about a frenzy of over-consumption, pollution and ecological havoc. But so long as there's money to be made, asks Subhankar Banerjee, why worry about climate change?
… Banerjee | 18th March 2014 Comment USA India Energy Climate Change Consumerism india-shopping.png The era of mass consumption has reached India, bringing about a frenzy of …
India made no promises to cut its CO2 emissions from coal power stations, writes Nivedita Khandekar, and refused to reveal its ambitions for the Paris climate talks - but Obama promised US support for its plans to roll out 100GW of solar power.
… 100GW solar support in US-India climate talks, but no emissions cuts … Nivedita Khandekar | 27th January 2015 News India USA Climate Change Renewables Solar Nuclear modi-obama-cut.jpg India made no promises to cut its CO2 …
Thirty years ago today, Union Carbide's pesticide factory in Bhopal, India, released toxic gases that killed 3,787 people and injured over half a million, writes Vijay Prashad. The site is still contaminated, victims remain uncompensated, and the area suffers from a high rate of serious birth defects. Yet UC's CEO evaded justice, to die in a Florida nursing home this year at the age of 92.
… on Vijay Prashad | 3rd December 2014 Comment India USA Law Toxics Corporations … Union Carbide's pesticide factory in Bhopal, India, released toxic gases that killed 3,787 … Florida, at the substantial age of 92. In India, the name 'Warren Anderson' means a …
A budding interest in organic food offers farmers soaring incomes and higher yields, but critics say it's not the answer to India's fast-rising food demands
… Organic farming – India's future perfect? Nishika Patel The … but critics say it's not the answer to India's fast-rising food demands India's struggling farmers are starting to …
Endosulfan is the pesticide of choice for farmers in rural India trying to control insects threatening cashew nut and other crops - but the chemical can have devastating health impacts
… the child victims of pesticide poisoning in India Peter Caton Beatriz Lopez | 4th January 2012 News Health Pesticides India Food And Farming Endosulfan 360x480.jpg … the pesticide of choice for farmers in rural India trying to control insects threatening …
Pollinators and farmers likely to bear the brunt of the acquisition of Bharat Insecticides by a consortium led by Mitsui.
… Corporation announced its acquisition of Indian pesticide manufacturer Bharat … a further decrease in pollinating insects in India. On its website, BIL lists several … neonicotinoid insecticides for sale in India that have been banned in the EU due to …
Agroecology is key to retaking control over food, farming and land from the 'monstrous machine' of agribusiness, biotech, big finance and 'free trade', writes Colin Todhunter, as it represents a truly viable alternative to agriculture for corporate profit. But such are the powers ranged against the world's small farmers that it must be supported by a broad-based, global people's movement.
… Comment Food Farming Corporations The Land India USA Mexico Trade Health Society … letter written in 2006 to policy makers in India, farmer and campaigner Bhaskar Save … of the impacts of green revolution farming in India. He argued that the actual reason for …
Despite the endless rhetoric about a 'nuclear renaissance', there are fewer power reactors today than there were a decade ago, writes Jim Green. The one country with a really big nuclear build program is China, but no one expects it to meet its targets. And with over 200 reactor shut-downs due by 2040, the industry will have to run very hard indeed just to stay put.
… prepared for the COP21 conference: China, India, Japan, Argentina, Turkey, Jordan and … of shut-downs increases. Growth elsewhere? India is the only other country where there is … in the nearish-future. But nuclear growth in India has been modest - six reactor start-ups …
As the new year begins, the global clean energy transition is progressing much faster than most people realise, and is probably irreversible, writes Jeremy Leggett. President-elect Trump's prospects of revitalising the US coal industry, and giving the oil and gas industry the expansionist dream ticket it wants, are very low.
… Comment Climate Change Politics USA China India Finance Paris Agreement … emerging-market economies - including China, India, and Brazil - showed solar at $1.65 … energy of choice" , so Bloomberg reported. In India, "the millions not connected to the grid …
Human rights violations have been reported at plantations in virtually all major tea producing countries, while tea growing itself has a profound effect on the local environment. William McLennan reports
… more than 45 countries worldwide, and while India and China are the biggest producers, Sri … the poverty line despite being employed. In India, where workers are expected to pick more … make way for tea plantations. In North East India, areas which used to be a combination of …
Austria's pledge to strive for the elimination of nuclear WMD kindled fresh energy and hope at this month's Vienna Conference on Nuclear Weapons, writes Rebecca Johnson. Now we must maintain the momentum towards global nuclear disarmament at the May 2015 meeting of the Non-Proliferation Treaty.
… 2014 Activism Nuclear WMD Austria USA UK India Pakistan Japan War tsar-bomba-cut.jpg … States and Britain - attended, as well as India and Pakistan, two nuclear-armed nations … ranks of civil society experts. Pakistan and India - prepared to talk of nuclear peace …
There's no such thing as 'healthy food' if it's not produced by sustainable farming systems on living soils, Patrick Holden told the recent 'Food: The Forgotten Medicine' conference. But after 70 years of industrial farming, there's a huge job to be done to restore our depleted soils and the impoverished genetic diversity of our seeds and crops.
… Albert Howard, a man who had been sent out to India at the height of the Empire, a century … Government, to encourage the people of India to adopt western diets. Fortunately, … his mission that he had nothing much to teach India about sound nutrition. He recognised too …
Six environment heroes, one from each continent, are honoured for their work today - fighting threats from giant coal mines to forest destruction, fracking, high dams, illegal development and toxic waste dumps. Sophie Morlin-Yron reports.
… Water Energy USA Indonesia Russia Peru Africa India Forests goldman-2014-portraits-cut.jpg … prize winner Suren Gazaryan. Ramesh Agrawal, India With a small internet café as his …
The global rebirth of nuclear power was meant to be well under way by now, writes Jim Green. But in fact, nuclear's share of world power generation is on a steady long term decline, and new reactors are getting ever harder to build, and finance. The only real growth area is decommissioning, but that too has a problem: where's the money to pay for it?
… nuclear renaissance - Russia, South Korea and India - growth is likely to be modest and … attack on Korea Hydro's computer network. India has 21 operating reactors, six under construction and 22 planned. But India's nuclear program is in a "deep freeze" …
To understand how technology is used in the real world we must appreciate who owns and controls it, writes Colin Todhunter: whose interests it serves, and how it works in an economic system driven by profit, geopolitics and the compulsion to capture and control markets - while the monopolists proclaim a noble ideology of 'free choice' and 'democracy'.
… for the people; good for the country? In India, in a headlong rush to urbanise (under … are the order of the day. For all the talk of India's high GDP growth in recent years, India has slipped down the World Happiness …
The combined impacts of pesticides and air pollution on bees could have severe consequences.
… of honey bees in the wild, a new study from India has revealed. These effects may not … and could be shortening their lives. India is one of the world’s largest producers … a vast range of wild plants and crops across India. Researchers studied how this species …
The world is in the grip of a structural war against people, land, economies and ecosystems, writes Colin Todhunter. It is being waged by a quartet of organised criminal interests bent on monopolizing energy, money, food and violence across the globe. But a deep-rooted resistance against their 'neoliberal' doctrine of death and destruction is fighting back.
… as two Japanese, six Mexicans, 13 Chinese, 31 Indians, 128 Bangladeshis, 307 Tanzanians and … further to see this in action from Mexico to India and beyond, where traditional food … on Agriculture is playing a similar role in India and various bilateral trade agreements …
Their grasp of science can’t be faulted but William Antholis and Strobe Talbott need to offer solutions too, says Mark Newton
… Change Politics Kyoto Copenhagen USA China India Brazil Reviews book-jacket.jpg Their … than the others that make up the ‘big four’: India, China and the US. There is hope, too, … Antholis and Talbott also discuss the rise of India and China, two of the biggest countries …
Trade deals with countries such as the US, Australia and India would drive down UK food standards.
… with countries such as the US, Australia and India would drive down UK food standards. … with countries such as the US, Australia and India could drive down UK standards, a report …
Boycott Coca-Cola and make money for the victims of Coca-Cola. How much can we make?
… Boycott Human Rights Water Theft Water Waste India USA Business Boycotts Campaigns … goals by the pollution and use of water in India. With a crowd of 300 [present], Coke had …