'Poor nations need Codex education'
Sanjay Dave, director of the Agricultural and Processed Food Products Export Development Authority (APEDA), was recently elected chairperson of …
COVID-19: Global trade via shipping badly affected, says UNCTAD
Situation unlikely to improve before second or even fourth quarter of 2020
Global Eco Watch: Major ecological happenings of the week (February 24 – March 1, 2020)
Down To Earth brings you the top happenings in the world of global ecology
CITES CoP 2019: Resolution seeking closure of domestic ivory markets not adopted
30 African countries panned EU, Japan for not closing legal ivory markets
Global Eco Watch: Major ecological happenings of the week (June 3 - June 9)
Trade Unions
Tigers: dwindling fast
Gore goes green
Many environmentalists doubt Al Gore's green concerns
COSTA RICA
What is the WTO Agreement on Fisheries Subsidies that is likely to be sealed at Abu Dhabi?
Addressing overfishing and overcapacity must be the first item on the list at the WTO Ministerial Conference
Tradition of food migration bypassed
Evolution ensured people adopted new foods through generations of experiments. but in a fast globalising age, we don’t seem to have …
Fix from ground up: A $5-trillion economy target by 2025 for India is not unachievable
Prepare business strategies for districts and leverage existing government schemes to make India a global economic powerhouse
Sixth mass extinction: IPBES9 report stresses on sustainable wildlife management
Indigenous people must be involved in drawing national policies, says body
World Trade Organization steps back from the brink of irrelevance — but it’s not fixed yet
It is the first WTO treaty with environmental protection and sustainability as its objective
Civil society criticises Centre’s Global Wildlife Programme, doubts minister’s claims
The Global Wildlife Programme has been launched in partnership with World Bank and United Nations Development Programme to curb illegal wildlife …
Private sector not dependable to achieve SDGs: UNCTAD
Its contribution to developing countries’ debt increases to 139% of GDP in 2017 from 79% in 2008
India Eco Watch: Major ecological happenings of April
Every Sunday Down To Earth brings you the top happenings in the world of Indian ecology, botany and zoology. Here are all of them for April 2019
The challenge of manufactured consent
Protests against the Citizenship Amendment Bill in the Northeast reopens the anti-migration issue
Humans will eat 20% more fish by 2030
The increase in consumption along with wastage of fish, overfishing is likely to have huge impacts on global food security
Civil society asks WTO members to raise concerns about ‘lop-sided’ Nairobi agreement
Organisations write letter calling on developing member nations to raise issue at General Council meet on Wednesday
WTO takes a wrong turn for development
The US, the EU and other developed countries are expected to make a concerted push for new issues
China bans trade in rhino horns, tiger bones
The Chinese people may resent the restrictions, but the government has to crack down on trafficking in products from rhinos and tigers or else …
Biodiversity or Biotrade?
Competing goals of free trade and environmental protection puts the much-awaited Cartagena Protocol on Biosafety indefinitely on hold
Modified decision
Sri Lanka delays imposing a ban on GM foodstuffs
Ecuador