Devinder Sharma : Ground Reality
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Apr 01 2004
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India becoming a GM-trashbin?
Devinder Sharma on the recent approval given in India for commercial growth of another Bt cotton variety.
Apr 01 2004
GM food and hunger
: GM food and hunger
A new publication from the Delhi-based Forum for Biotechnology & Food Security. (40 pages)
Mar 01 2004
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Rural poor to pay for urban elite
New Delhi's policy-makers are busy bartering the millions of jobs in agriculture for the far fewer ones with outsourcing firms in the cities, says Devinder Sharma.
Feb 01 2004
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Turning farmers into brokers
To expect poor and marginal farmers to trade online seems to be a wild imagination of a stockbroker, says Devinder Sharma.
Feb 01 2004
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Rice is now Oryza syngenta
2004 is being celebrated as the International Year of Rice, and the starchy grain has undergone a complete metamorphosis, says Devinder Sharma.
Feb 01 2004
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Towards a grey revolution?
Encouraging contract farming is going to hurt the 600 million people dependent on subsistence agriculture, says Devinder Sharma.
Jan 01 2004
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Nothing much to feel good about
The negative terms of trade against agriculture have to be turned around if the country is keen to emerge from the hunger and poverty trap, says Devinder Sharma.
Q&A on the Minimum Support Pricing policy
Dec 01 2003
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Busy exploiting hunger
Around the developed world, GM crops are discredited, but in India, under the emotional tag of 'eradicating hunger', the industry is having a free run, says Devinder Sharma.
Nov 01 2003
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Flogging a dead horse
Biofortification is no cure for hunger. Devinder Sharma says boosting nutrients in various crops isn't going to make them any more affordable for the poor.
Nov 01 2003
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Charity in the name of science
A proposed new charity for intellectual property will simply legitimize the biopiracy of developing nations' traditional knowledge, says Devinder Sharma.
Devinder Sharma is an award-winning journalist, writer, thinker and researcher respected for his views on food and trade policy. His writings focus on the links between biotechnology, intellectual property rights, food trade and poverty. He is a regular contributor to leading national print publications. He blogs at http://devinder-sharma.blogspot.com/