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Indian Farmers’ Protest Resurges Against Corporate Control: Where Is the Global Support This Time?
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The 2020–2021 Indian farmers’ protests garnered significant international support due to the unprecedented scale and resilience of the movement...
Mutant Rice and Bill Gates’s Lab Rats: Grand Experiments in India’s Fields
Colin Todhunter
In late 2024, Bill Gates sparked outrage in India after describing the country as “a kind of laboratory to...
Revolution from the Soil: Anti-Imperialism and Food Sovereignty in Burkina Faso
Colin Todhunter
Burkina Faso, under President Ibrahim Traoré, has become a focal point for anti-imperialist sentiment and political renewal in Africa....
War on Food and Farming — Bayer’s ‘Backward’ Claim
Colin Todhunter
For some critics, if one firm tops a league table for anti-people, anti-nature business practices, it is Bayer (although...
A Faustian Bargain with Corporate Power: From Monsanto to Bayer, the Worst of Both Worlds
Colin Todhunter
Environmentalist and campaigner Rosemary Mason has been relentlessly exposing the insidious effects of agrochemicals on human health and the...
Waltzing With Bayer
Aruna Rodrigues
In 2005, I was lead claimant in an antiGMO Public Interest Litigation (PIL) was filed with the Indian Supreme...
War on Farmers: World Bank Sowing Seed-Colonialism in Africa
Colin Todhunter
In Kenya, a law was passed in 2012 that prohibits farmers’ rights to save, share, exchange or sell unregistered...
The Passing of the Father of India’s Green Revolution
Colin Todhunter MS Swaminathan, widely regarded as the father of the Green Revolution in India, recently passed away (28...
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...
Bellies of the Rich Swell Further on the Back of Hunger
Colin todhunter It’s a zero-sum situation. The rich are robbing the poor to swell their coffers – and their...
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...
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....
Resisting the ‘Food Transition’: Genetic Engineering and Dependency
Colin Todhunter This is an abridged version of the second chapter of the author’s short e-book Food, Dispossession and...
Ignore the Prophets of Doom – Organic food can feed the world
Colin Todhunter As oil and gas prices rise so does the price of artificial chemical fertilisers – the lynch-pin...
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...
“Genetically Edited” Food – The next stage of the Great Reset?
Kit Knightly
Audio Version New Feature! The Queen’s Speech was interesting this year. For all the people outside the UK who...
Localization: An Alternative to the New Normal
Colin Todhunter ‘World Localization Day’ will be celebrated on 20 June. Organised by the non-profit Local Futures, this annual coming...
From Rachel Carson to Monsanto: The Silence of Spring
Colin Todhunter Former Monsanto Chairman and CEO Hugh Grant is currently in the news. He is trying to avoid...
Ukraine War & “Hurricane of Hunger” Transforming Food Systems
Colin Todhunter On Monday, 14 March, UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres warned of a “hurricane of hunger and a meltdown of the...
An Inconvenient Truth: The Peasant Food Web Feeds the World
Colin Todhunter In October 2020, CropLife International said that its new strategic partnership with the United Nations Food and...
