Countdown to Cancun: Agricultural subsidies

why should four per cent of the agricultural workforce (mostly affluent) in high-income countries reap the rich harvest of an international trade …

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Surrogate salesmen

Wind loses speed

Sector shows poor performance; government says it is a short-term phenomenon

Remove the perverse incentive

Budget should make diesel cars pay for subidised fuel, pollution

GREEN SUBSIDIES

Nothing to smile about!

Yashwant Sinha pleases the industry by playing a rude joke on the environment

Ecofriendly subsidies proposed

EU plans to give more weightage to environmental and public safety norms by amending agricultural policy

Regional Trade Agreements dividing north-south trade?

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Digging shallow

Cancun impact felt in Dubai

The tone and tenor of the failed Fifth World Trade Organization (WTO) Ministerial Conference in Cancun found an echo in the annual meetings of …

Sugarcane growers in Uttar Pradesh short changed

India compromises on WTO deal

Under pressure from the US, it accepts conditions not part of G-33 proposal

Organic drive in Uttaranchal ignores farmers' concerns

Doha round in indefinite suspension

What a waste

Time for course correction

Congress likely to go all out to woo people in the new budget

Sugar mills turn U

Energy pill for renewable sector

World Bank prepares off-grid scheme to revitalise growth

Grains of doubt

Rural affairs ministry rejects wage payment in kind under rural job scheme

Farmers want support

Say they are more vulnerable due to erratic weather

Ace swimmer Lewis Pugh swims seven seas to raise awareness

The initiative is to campaign for dedicated Marine Protected Areas across the world

US, Mexico accuse China of unfair trade practices

Correcting distortions