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There is a price to pay for technology. Often, it is the environment, and eventually the world’s peoples, that pay this hefty price. ‘The costly development of technologies like GE as ‘solutions’ to world hunger or climate change, mask their real socio-economic, environmental and political causes.’ Contrary to suggestions that genetically [...]

After slamming the ‘evil’ West, Robert Mugabe seems to have opened the gates to ‘benevolent’ East for trade and investment in Zimbabwe. Of course Robert Mugabe had no option but to take help of China to retain power and survive the international sanctions against Zimbabwe. China was more than eager to step on the rich soil and reap profits [...]

They were mired in heavy debt that could not be paid to money lenders because their crops failed to yield enough. The agricultural state of Chattisgarh, a widely agricultural region in India, has been devastated by poor water resources that farming badly needs, with water levels dipping below 250 feet from 40 feet during the past years. There were [...]

Katine is a tranquil pastoral county in northeastern Uganda. The only way of life in this village is farming. Their entire livelihood involves cattle. In the 1990s, a semi-nomadic tribe came down from the hills and stole the cattle. This posed a bigger difficulty for the women of the village since they do most of the farming. As in most rural agricultural [...]