Waking up to ACTA
Choking India's generics exports
High on broth, low on geography
Geographical indication tags are being handed out indiscriminately—with no strategy
The irrelevance of multilateralism
Rich countries gang up for a more strident intellectual property rights regime
Importing Disaster
Retail FDI myths
There is no evidence that global retail chains ensure better prices for farmers or help bring down inflation
US plays dirty on tar sands
The EU appears to have backed off on important climate change policy because of pressure from US-backed Big Oil
Race to kill kyoto protocol
As Copenhagen nears, Obamas America sees new hope Yes, we can...dump climate multilateralism. In Bangkok, most developed countries joined the …
Choking access to drugs
Drug prices are likely to increase as rich countries and their pharma companies squeeze Indian generics out of the market. How can India’s …
Climate inaction
A lethal secrecy in trade deals
Why do democratic governments hide trade negotiations that have dire consequences for public services?
New endosulfan ploy
Industry is sidestepping issues by pitching the proposed UN ban on endosulfan as the battle between generics and patented pesticides
Predatory EU pacts
EU is pushing India and Canada to sign free trade agreements that will hurt their generic drugs—and the outrage is global
The GM maize rats
Findings of the Seralini lab on effect of Monsanto’s GM maize on rats set off a global furore
Empty Promises
The high-level conference at Rome was called to find a way out of the global food crisis. A series of consultations with experts preceded this …
Trade barred
Countries protect their renewable energy equipment. Exporting nations see it as trade barrier
Durban diary: a visual journal
Time-out
The 17th Conference of Parties to the UN Framework Convention on Climate Change met in Durban in December 2011. Negotiations were heated and …
A treaty too many
India is learning that there is a heavy price to be paid for the large number of bilateral investment treaties, or BITs, it has signed in the …
Future compromised
The Earth Summit was a historical opportunity to set the world on the correct development trajectory. Negotiators from 191 countries came …
The mean world of climate change
India's climate dilemma
Will India toe the US line of capping carbon emissions from farming?
Beyond Rio+20
How to rewrite the Durban script
2009 is full of promise