Agricultural deal eludes WTO

Repercussions for new international trade deal

India moves to restructure IPR issues

Kamal Nath dashes letters to 31 countries

African e-commerce platforms must address thriving illegal wildlife trade, urge international non-profits

Illegal trade in wild species undermines natural resources, threatens species with extinction, affects community livelihoods & can increase …

Make Free Trade Agreement negotiations transparent: MPs, trade experts, activists write to Centre

Letter comes amid ongoing India’s ongoing trade negotiations with the European Union in Brussels

RCEP will hurt local industry and allow workers’ exploitation, says civil society

The trade agreement is being negotiated in secrecy, but it is likely to favour big companies and threaten India’s agriculture, industry and …

World Pangolin Day: Adorable ant eaters face obliteration

With Asian species critically endangered, poaching and illegal trade in pangolin meat and scales has shifted to Africa

Civil society raises concern over RCEP negotiations

The free trade agreement will cover a large range of issues—trade in goods, agriculture, services, investment and intellectual property

Elephant memories apart

Tania James offers an insight into the elephant's mind, while exploring the human-animal conflict through a range of narrative techniques

The return of leather weather

THE WORLD'S LEATHER AND LEATEHR PRODUCTS INDUSTRY: A STUDY OF PRODUCTION, TRADE PATTERNS AND FUTURE TRENDS by Robert H Ballance, Ghislain Robyn …

Mafias rule the Chilika waters

A committee set up by the Bhubaneswar High Court has confirmed that mafias control the prawn trade in Orissa's Chilika lake.

Buckled together in a free-trade belt

Negotiators have paved the way for the ratification of NAFTA, which overshadows both the EC and the ASEAN in terms of economic clout

Quandary over eradicating useful lantana weed

Forest officials are confronted with the spread of a weed that stifles tree growth but is useful for making baskets.

Unfair price shop

Open markets to free trade, says the US. Yet it doles out sops to its farmers. Highly subsidised US produce floods global markets, bringing down …

India must rethink timber strategy

From being a net exporter of timber, India has turned into its net importer. The reversal stems from the country's soaring demand for industrial …

Trees are our only livelihood

Meghalaya's west Khasi hills. He shares with Centre for Science and Environment media fellow P Madhavan his experience of the charcoal trade

On the defensive at Cancun?

Recently Arun Jaitley identified agriculture and investment as the two main issues for next month's World Trade Organization ministerial …

Book review: Commercial cultivation of medicinal plants

It is an obvious business risk for a farmer to give up growing conventional crops that have assured returns and start growing medicinal plants. …

Investments from India to lead growth in East African market

Over the last decade, Africa-India trade has followed the upward trend in South-South trade and investments

In the forests of the night

Poplar - moneytree no more

Poplar tree, which was getting a good price in the market till 2014, is suffering from sharp fall in its prices. Farmers have stopped planting it …

All workers unite

...especially in the gigantic unorganised sector, and suddenly the labour fringe becomes the mainstream

Victory at last

Industrial safety meet spotlights India

Highlights of the 13th World Congress on Occupational Safety and Health.

Fishing for money

Recycling colonialism