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Gates Unhinged: Dystopian Vision for the Future of Food
Colin Todhunter We are currently seeing an acceleration of the corporate consolidation of the entire global agrifood chain. The...
Four Words Gates and His Pals Despise: Democracy & Minimum Support Price
Colin Todhunter The Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation and an assortment of high-profile figures and policymakers are pushing for...
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...
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,...
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,...
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...
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...
Reimagining the World: Agroecology vs Post-COVID Plunder
Colin Todhunter Contingent on World Bank aid to be given to poorer countries in the wake of coronavirus lockdowns,...
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...
Dispossession and Imperialism Repackaged as ‘Feeding the World’
Colin Todhunter The world is fast losing farms and farmers through the concentration of land into the hands of...
Crisis, What Crisis? Hypocrisy and Public Health in the UK
Rosemary Mason & Colin Todhunter On 12 March 2020, British PM Boris Johnson, referring to COVID-19, informed the public:...
Neoliberal Death Knell for Indian Agriculture
Colin Todhunter In a 2017 article, I asked what might a future India look like and concluded that, if...
GM Crops: Experts Debunk Claims of Success
Colin Todhunter On 6 July 2020, an article extolling the benefits of genetically modified (GM) crops appeared on the...
Post-Brexit Agrochemical Apocalypse for the UK?
The British government, regulators and global agrochemical corporations are colluding with each other and are thus engaging in criminal...
From Toxic Food to Agrarian Disaster: Dirty Deals Done Dirt Cheap
Although millions of people were suffering, the hope was that the Covid-19 crisis, there was a belief that people...
Lockdown Catastrophe: The Need for Resilient Food Systems
We are already seeing food shortages in the making. In India, for instance, supply chains have been disrupted, farm...
Toxic Agriculture and the Gates Foundation
Colin Todhunter The Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation was launched in 2000 and has $46.8 billion in assets (December...
Dependency & Distress: The Story of Bt Cotton in India
Colin Todhunter In the early 2000s, genetically modified (GM) Bt insecticidal cotton was being heavily promoted in India on...
Apocalypse Now! Insects, Pesticides and a Public Health Crisis
Colin Todhunter In 2017, UN Special Rapporteur on the right to food, Hilal Elver, and UN Special Rapporteur on...
BT Cotton: Cultivating Farmer Distress in India
Colin Todhunter This month, India’s Supreme Court will hold a lengthy hearing on the commercialisation of genetically modified (GM)...
