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Issue No. 247 (Mar 2011)
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COVER:
Surging food prices add fuel to fire
The
frenzy in the global food markets
As food prices continue to soar two years
after a similar crisis, the same tired old reasons are being trotted
out again, even though they are as far off the mark now as they were
then.
By Jayati Ghosh
Caught in the
food pirates' trap
The current Indian administration has failed
to draw the lessons from the social unrest in recent years caused by
the debacle of similar development models elsewhere.
By Devinder Sharma
EU free trade
agreement puts in peril food self-sufficiency and livelihoods in India
India’s
proposal to enter into a free trade agreement with the European Union
is likely to adversely impact its agricultural sector.
By Ranja Sengupta
Securing grain
New policies address grain concerns in China and allow
the country to remain grain self-sufficient.
By Lan Xinzhen
Biofuels and
world hunger
A damning report confirms critics' charge
that industrial biofuels are responsible for the world's food and hunger
crisis.
By Mae-Wan Ho
Closing the gender
gap in agriculture
If women in rural areas had equal access
to land, technology, financial services, education and markets, agricultural
production could be increased and the number of hungry people reduced
by 100-150 million, says FAO.
Save the climate
and double food production with eco-farming
Eco-farming could double food production
in entire regions within 10 years while mitigating climate change, according
to a new UN report.
By Stephen Leahy
Cooperatives
offer an alternative
By facilitating storage and bulk marketing
of the produce, cooperatives in Mexico
are helping to spur agricultural production.
By Emilio Godoy
The collapse
of the old oil order
Whatever the outcome of the protests, uprisings
and rebellions now sweeping the Middle East,
one thing is guaranteed: the world of oil will be permanently transformed.
By Michael T Klare
ECOLOGY
The stillborn
'nuclear renaissance'
Efforts by powerful international lobbies
to revive the nuclear power industry have suffered a major setback with
the disaster of Japan's Fukushima
nuclear power plant.
By Julio Godoy
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ECONOMICS
Dangers of the
boom in capital flows
The present boom in capital flows to developing
countries has destabilising effects on currencies and asset bubbles
and will end in a damaging bust, warns a new study.
By Martin Khor
Social unrest
an opportunity to reshape economic policies
The revolts in the Arab world provide an
opportune moment to embark on a new sustainable model of development
which ensures that the gains from productivity growth are distributed
equitably between capital and labour.
By Kanaga Raja
The art of not
paying taxes
The tax systems in the Latin American countries characteristically exert
low tax pressure and are highly regressive.
By Carlos Bedoya
HUMAN RIGHTS
A colossus of
human rights jurisprudence
A tribute to the genial 'insurgent jurisprudent',
KG Kannabiran.
By V Suresh and D Nagasaila
WOMEN
Saluting the
revolutionary women of Egypt on International Women's Day
Honouring the struggles of women all over
the world against patriarchy and oppression, with a focus on the instrumental
role of key women activists in the Egyptian protests.
By Horace Campbell
WORLD AFFAIRS
Revolutionary
youth give Clinton the cold shoulder in Egypt
In her recent visit to Egypt, US Secretary
of State Hillary Clinton was accorded a frosty reception by the youth
who played a leading role in toppling Hosni Mubarak.
By Adam Morrow and Khaled Moussa al-Omrani
VIEWPOINT
Odyssey Dawn,
a Homeric tragedy
Two games of dominoes are under way in West
Asia and North Africa, one of mass struggle against US-backed regimes,
the other of military intervention aimed at co-opting or defeating the
popular revolts.
By Siddharth Varadarajan
MEDIA
Creating independent
news media
Creating a viable free press has emerged
as a central issue because of the rapid disintegration of the commercial
news media system.
By Robert W McChesney
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