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Farmers’ Protest in India Reignites: A Struggle for the Future of Food and Agriculture
Colin Todhunter In 2021, after a year-long protest, India’s farmers brought about the repeal of three farm laws that...
Farmers’ Protest in India – Price of Failure Will Be immense
Colin Todhunter Globally, there is an ongoing trend of a handful of big companies determining what food is grown,...
Farmers’ Protests Reflect Existential Crisis of Indian Agriculture
Colin Todhunter With over 800 million people, rural India is arguably the most interesting and complex place on the...
The ‘Food Transition’ Is a War on Food, Farmers and the Public
Colin Todhunter
This article begins with a short video based on an interview with researcher Sandi Adams, who describes the plans...
Science & Public Interest Halt the Push for GM Crops in India: Approval by Contamination?
Colin Todhunter Between 1991 and 2016, the population of Delhi and its suburbs increased from 9.4 million to 25...
India’s Farmers Reject GMOs – Global Public Don’t Want GM Food
Colin Todhunter Many scientists lobbying for the deregulation of agricultural biotechnology ‘new genomic techniques’ (NGTs) in the European Union...
India’s GMOs: A 30-Year Pathway to Food Tyranny
Colin Todhunter A public interest litigation is currently before India’s Supreme Court which challenges the drive to commercialise the...
Dutch Farmers Resisting the Toxic Transition
Colin Todhunter In recent years, governments have been demonstrating their subservience to their billionaire masters in Big Finance, the...
From Bill Gates to the Great Refusal – Farmers on the Frontline
Colin Todhunter Prior to the Industrial Revolution, most humans were engaged in agriculture. Our relationship with nature was immediate....
Farmers’ Struggle Not Over: Corporate Takeover of Indian Agriculture Still Looms
Colin Todhunter The following is an unpublished transcript of an interview the author did for a UK-based TV channel...
One Year in, the Struggle of Indian Farmers is Set to Intensify
Colin Todhunter It is now one year since controversial farm bills were passed into law in India in September...
Smashing the Heads of Farmers: A Global Struggle Against Tyranny
Colin Todhunter According to Reuters, more than 500,000 farmers attended a rally in the city of Muzaffarnagar in the...
Walmart, Amazon and the Colonial Deindustrialisation of India
Colin Todhunter In June 2018, the Joint Action Committee against Foreign Retail and E-commerce (JACAFRE) issued a statement on...
Viral Inequality: From Jeff Bezos to the struggle of Indian Farmers
The world’s 10 richest billionaires have collectively seen their wealth increase by $540bn over this period. In September 2020,...
Indian Farmers on the Frontline Against Global Capitalism
Colin Todhunter In the above short video on the empirediaries.com YouTube channel, a protesting farmer camped near Delhi says...
Imperial Intent: Destroying India’s Farm Sector
Colin Todhunter Agriculture in India is at a crossroads. Indeed, given that over 60 per cent of the country’s...
GM in India: Faking it on the Astroturf
Colin Todhunter According to a recent report in The Hindu Business Line, India’s intelligence agencies are investigating the role of a...
India’s Tryst with Destiny
Colin Todhunter Today, we are in the grip of a globalised system of capitalism which drives narcissism, domination, ego,...
Bt Brinjal Illegally Growing in India: Who Is Really Pulling the Strings?
Colin Todhunter In February 2010, the Indian government placed an indefinite moratorium on the commercial release of Bt brinjal....
Indian Manifesto Demands Indefinite Moratorium on GMO
A new ‘Political Manifesto’ has demanded an indefinite moratorium on the environmental release of GMOs in India pending independent...
