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Indian Farmers’ Protest Resurges Against Corporate Control: Where Is the Global Support This Time? 

CST Reasearch

The 2020–2021 Indian farmers’ protests garnered significant international support due to the unprecedented scale and resilience of the movement...

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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...

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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....

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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...

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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...

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Waltzing With Bayer

Aruna Rodrigues

In 2005, I was lead claimant in an antiGMO Public Interest Litigation (PIL) was filed with the Indian Supreme...

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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...

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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...

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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...

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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...

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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...

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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....

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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...

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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...

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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...

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“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...

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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...

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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...

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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...

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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...

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