by Jason Motlagh, San Francisco Chronicle Foreign Service.
While India’s economy surges forward on the crest of globalization, thousands of farmers are taking their own lives every year to escape mounting debt and an uncertain future. … at least 87,567 farmers committed suicide between 2002 and 2006.
In the 1960s, India underwent a green revolution in favor [...]
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India’s debt-ridden farmers committing suicide
Posted in agriculture, big business, economic justice, globalization on March 22, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
We Feed the World
Posted in agriculture, big business, biodiversity, economic justice, globalization, oceans, population pressure, sustainability on March 16, 2008 | 2 Comments »
The 2005 Austrian documentary film We Feed the World has been showing on the Sundance channel in the US recently. (IMDB entry.) It’s incredibly well done.
WE FEED THE WORLD is a film about food and globalisation, fishermen and farmers, long-distance lorry drivers and high-powered corporate executives, the flow of goods and cash flow [...]
the new world order
Posted in economy, globalization, world politics on February 14, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
In a long, provocative essay, Waving Goodbye to Hegemony, Parag Khanna, a senior research fellow in the American Strategy Program of the New America Foundation, lays out his ideas on how America can change “to deliver tangible gains to people beyond our shores, repair our reputation, maintain harmony among the Big Three [US, EU, [...]
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