Trade in good food can end global hunger: report

Food regulation should be such that that healthy food is protected, not just food in general, says a new report 

Applying science to tackle illegal timber trade

Illegal trade of timber is worth US $30-100 billion annually. Scientists have developed some innovative methods to curb it

Number of jobless swelled to 197 million in 2015

Nearly 2.3 million more unemployed people will be added this year. The increase in the number of jobseekers has occurred mainly in developing …

Taste for tradition

Home delivery services are taking traditional food everywhere. And the market is catching up too

Why one of three African candidates fits the bill as the new head of the WTO

Africa represents a key bloc within the WTO and accounts for nearly 27 per cent of membership and 35 per cent of members from developing countries

Environment ministry to burn illegally poached items on World Wildlife Day

This is a step in the direction to prevent the sale of animal parts in black market

Global civil society organisations support India’s stand at WTO

Support comes just before WTO’s Nairobi meet in December 

Time for bright switch

India set to introduce standards to ensure quality imports of LEDs

Turned turtle

Felling halted

Curbs on extraction of timber in Kerala's Wayanad district

Double standards

The US government procures generic drugs for anthrax from a non-patent holder

In the dragnet

Cheaper remedy

No sale

Project to sell river water in Kerala shelved

Globalisers retreating into little shells

Tourism-dependent nations value elephants

WTO trumped by America

WTO's recent ministerial meeting at Buenos Aires highlights the strain on the multilateral trading bloc from US unilateralism and its own`unfair' …

New leaked chapter of Asia trade deal shows RCEP will undercut farmers’ control over seeds

The Regional Comprehensive Economic Partnership threatens to increase corporate power in member countries, leaving ordinary people with little rights

WTO Ministerial Conference: India objects to agriculture draft text

India believes that some members are pushing for an accelerated phasing out of agriculture export subsidy

All eyes on Akatsuki Maru

As the world follows the Akatsuki Maru and its 1.3 tonnes of plutonium oxide on its controversial trans-oceanic journey from France to Japan, …

Bitten by the betel

Paan is the delicacy among all communities in India. Its cultivation and propagation will serve to strengthen not just the various rituals …

Apples go higher in

Weather does not support traditional sweet varieties in lower regions; sour varieties replace them

The battle for knowledge

What are patents? Why have they become politically contentious and a major source of friction between rich nations and the developing world?

How to make the Commission for Sustainable Development work

It was only half a year ago, but events since the Johannesburg earth summit already make it seem like a distant event. The world has just seen an …

US plan to settle WTO disputes