Thorny issue resurfaces

At its recently concluded third session in Geneva, Switzerland, the United Nations Forum on Forests (unff) took a step towards the creation of a …

Healthy advice to pharma companies

Facts modified

To help the biotech industry

Dallying in Dalian

Little progress in WTO agricultural negotiations

Norway pulls out of World Bank facility

Wrong cure

Pyrrhic victory

Breach of protocol

Unmasked

Double standards and transparency

A treaty to block cheaper drugs

Developed countries to use a geographical advantage to stop generics

'Poor nations need Codex education'

Sanjay Dave, director of the Agricultural and Processed Food Products Export Development Authority (APEDA), was recently elected chairperson of …

Snuffing out lives with pollution

Premature deaths and disease caused by a polluted environment is the most pressing problem in the world today, says a WHO report prepared for the …

Alliance on emissions

Australia inks pact with the US outside the Kyoto Protocol

Exporting toxicity

Chemicals banned in the US as poison are shipped to developing nations as pesticides

Harvesting joy or sorrow?

Global warming would decrease crop production in developing countries but increase it in the industrialised world

Immunity divide

New vaccines against TB of little help in developing countries

Indonesia agrees to share bird flu virus samples with WHO

Inequalities keep shifting as knowledge enters market

The two-degree shift

309,000 infants die on first day

India tops global list of first day deaths of infants; chronic malnourishment blamed

‘Manipulate market, lower drug prices’

In times of rising costs of healthcare compounded by shortage of funds, UNITAID, a UN organisation, was set up in 2006 to improve access to life-…

A North-South conflict

BIORESOURCES AND BIOTECHNOLOGY: POLICY CONCERNS FOR THE ASIAN REGION·Edited by Suman Sahai·Gene Campaign·New Delhi, 1999&…

Another Alang in the making

Andhra Pradesh is in choppy waters over a proposed ship breaking yard at Vodarevu

Hungry for research

Child starvation could increase unless research is improved