Climate breakdown is leading to ever-greater migration - but the issue is still largely invisible in migration discourse and response.
… Indian climate migration after Covid-19 Jessica Faleiro | … Climate breakdown is leading to ever-greater migration - but the issue is still largely invisible in migration discourse and response. Climate …
Thanks to Andy Hall's investigations of abuses of migrant workers in Thailand's fish and pineapple industries, a criminal trial begins today in Bangkok - his own. He faces eight years in prison and a $10 million fine for exposing their crimes in a devastating report that has inspired international action against the companies involved.
… the food industry. I have even acted as a migration advisor for a number of major food … widespread and systematic in Thailand. Thai migration policy has always been a shambles , … of power are all encompassing features of the migration system here, every day experiences …
Water scarcity and mis-management in India are creating a significant human and ecological crisis that will only be worsened by climate change
Coca-Cola just part of India’s water ‘free-for-all’ Tom Levitt | 4th December 2009 News Climate Change Politics And Economics India Water india2.jpg Coca-Cola uses enough water everyday to meet the …
The real nature of war and its impacts on people and environment can only be understood through its ecology, surgeon Gus Abu-Sitta tells Andre Vltchek: the causes of conflict, the dynamics that sustain it, the corporate and strategic interests bent on its perpetuation, the deliberate destruction of health provision, and the repeating cycles of infection, injury, poverty and human misery which have become a permanent reality for uncounted millions.
… and dismantling of the state, and the migration of some 50% of Iraq's doctors. Where … is happening in Syria, with regards of the migration of their doctors. Syria will undergo … the disintegration of these states and the migration of people to the regional centers. …
Plans for a new international airport in the coastal city of Mumbai will destroy yet more of its mangrove ecosystems, and there are fears the deal has already been closed
Mangroves vs airport: Mumbai's development battle Ambika Hiranandani Tom Levitt | 1st June 2010 News Aviation Airport India Politics And Economics Climate Change mangrovesindia1.jpg Plans for a new …
The world's big cities are choking with pollution and endless traffic jams, writes Colin Todhunter - except one. Copenhagen, faced with these problems half a century ago, decided to act. Now it is showing the world that cycling is not just the basis of a sustainable transport strategy, but is key to making our cities clean, green, human and livable. May the global revolution unfold ...
… the crisis in farming and associated rural migration to energy concerns and an expanding …
A revival of the traditional Kachchhi handloom could be a shining example of how India could tackle its severe livelihood, ecological, and cultural crises.
Weaving transformations Ashish Kothari | 18th April 2019 News India Crafts Traditional Skills jaishree_habubhai_at_her_loom_adhoi_village_ashish_kothari_smaller_size.jpg A revival of the traditional …
Talking with hunters in the mountains of Arunachal Pradesh.
'When the saplings are this tall' Sartaj Ghuman | 6th December 2018 News Arunachal Pradesh Hornbill Hunting India Thought Leaders img_20181109_165953.jpg Talking with hunters in the mountains of …
Science is to corporate science as Hyperion to a satyr, writes Ralph Nader. And there is no better example of this than Monsanto's realm of GMOs, biocides, super-aggressive lawyers and tame regulators - brilliantly exposed in this new book of essays, edited by Sheldon Krimsky and Jeremy Gruber.
… up refusal to disclose. Research on the migration of genetically-modified pollen from …
Global heating is contributing to forest fires, and those fires are stoking further heating: a deadly cycle. What can we learn from India's forest survey?
… impact productivity, species population and migration, the occurrence of pests and …
Governments must shift subsidies and research funding from agro-industrial monoculture to small farmers using 'agroecological' methods, according to the UN's Special Rapporteur on the Right to Food. And as Nafeez Ahmed notes, her call coincides with a new agroecology initiative within the UN's Food and Agriculture Organisation.
UN: only small farmers and agroecology can feed the world Nafeez Ahmed | 23rd September 2014 News Food Farming Natural World Un Corporations agroecology-ubc-milpa-cut.jpg Governments must shift …
Last November Tanzania's President Kikwete tweeted his promise that the evictions of indigenous Maasai people and their villages near Serengeti National Park would stop. But now another round of evictions is under way: thousands of Maasai have been evicted at gunpoint and their homes burnt to ashes. The Maasai say: 'We need your help!'
Tanzania breaks promise - thousands of Maasai evicted to make way for lion hunt The Ecologist | 27th February 2015 News Indigenous Peoples Tanzania Africa Conservation Hunting Corporations …
As the G7 leaders prepare to meet in Bavaria this weekend, small-scale farmers from around the world call on them to abandon their disastrous plan for the corporate takeover of global agriculture and the extirpation of small-scale farmers everywhere - those who produce most of the world's food. True food security must be rooted in local control over land, seeds and water.
… on climate change, rural employment and migration flows. But it is crucial that …
According to classical economics Adam Smith's 'invisible' hand' of free markets produces the greatest good for us all, writes JP Sottile. But what happens when rip-roaring 'external costs' are left out of the equations? Wars, repression, pollution, resource destruction and climate change. And because that invisible hand is connected to Mother Nature, it's coming back to strike us.
… preparations for the fallout from climate migrations and climate disruptions . These … through population-endangering climate migrations or even through the simple loss of …
The Government of Honduras is intent on framing the only witness to the murder of Berta Cáceres as the one guilty of the crime, writes Beverly Bell. Gustavo Castro Soto, an eco-defender from Mexico, is now in effective detention in his country's embassy in Tegucigalpa in fear of his life, having himself been injured in the attack and seen the real assassin. The US Government must break its resounding silence.
… return to his homeland. As he approached the migration checkpoint, Castro was set upon by …
A third of all food that's produced in the world is thrown away. What's going on? Diana Moreno finds some answers in her own experience working in a German supermarket. Leading the list is the mind-numbing 'culture of rush' that permeates high-volume, low margin retailing, and which subjects workers and customers alike to the soul-less logic of the production line.
… focuses on human rights, workers rights and migration issues. She contributes to many …
The corporate war on traditional farming is nowhere fiercer than in India, writes Colin Todhunter. After decades of the 'Green Revolution' that have impoverished the nation's soils, water, biodiversity and cultivators alike, agribusiness is poised for its final strike. But now the small scale farmers who produce most of the country's food are rediscovering ancient agroecological alternatives.
… depletion, increasing disparities, rural migration to urban areas resulting in …
The EU referendum debate is taking place between different wings of the corporate elite, dominated by assumptions in favour of big business, free trade and endless economic growth, write Helena Norberg-Hodge, Rupert Read & Thomas Wallgren. But to vote for a sustainable future we must adopt a very different, local perspective - one you'll never find in UK's 'mainstream' media.
… problems of hypermobility and large-scale migration ... These are all consequences of a …
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.
… unemployment, rising population and urban migration could be solved. While many argue in …