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