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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...
Authoritarianism in the Age of Pseudoscience
Colin Todhunter Following the court decision in the US to award in favour of Dewayne Johnson (exposure to Monsanto’s...
The Gates Foundation and the War on Cash
Colin Todhunter Back in November 2016, the Indian government decided to remove all 500- and 1000-rupee notes from circulation...
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...
Lockdown: Locking in the New Global Order
Colin Todhunter On 12 March, British PM Boris Johnson informed the public that families would continue to “lose loved...
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...
Three New Reads – February
Philip Roddis Reshaping global food production in the image of corporate imperialism, a brief and bloody history of capitalism...
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)...
Why Food Systems Are Breaking Down Across The World
Colin Todhunter Fast food nations and global nutrition Daniel Maingi works with small farmers in Kenya and belongs to...
Can GM crops really “feed the world”?
Colin Todhunter A common claim is that genetically modified organisms (GMOs) are essential to agriculture if we are to...
Gone Fishing? No Fish, but Plenty of Pesticides & a Public Health Crisis
Colin Todhunter There is mounting evidence that a healthy soil microbiome protects plants from pests and diseases. One of...
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...
Capitalism and the Gut-Wrenching Hijack of India
Colin Todhunter In India, the ‘development’ paradigm is premised on moving farmers out of agriculture and into the cities...
2019 On OffG
On the first day of a new year we take a look back at 2019 on OffG, and offer...
The Right to Healthy Food: Poisoned with Pesticides
Colin Todhunter Environmentalist Dr Rosemary Mason has just written an open letter addressed to three senior officials in Britain:...
Don’t Look, Don’t See: Pesticides in the MSM
Colin Todhunter The UK-based Independent online newspaper recently published an article about a potential link between air pollution from...
Hunger Games: Food Abundance and Twisted Truths
Colin Todhunter The world already produces enough food to feed 10 billion people but over two billion are experiencing micronutrient deficiencies (of which...
Agrarian Crisis and Malnutrition: GM Agriculture Is Not the Answer
Colin Todhunter M.S. Swaminathan is often referred to as the ‘father’ of India’s Green Revolution. In 2009, he said...
Agrochemical Apocalypse
Colin Todhunter The renowned author and whistleblower Evaggelos Vallianatos describes British environmentalist and campaigner Dr Rosemary Mason as a “defender...
