A people’s festival to protest CBD conference

Non-profits to represent united resolve to protect the country’s natural wealth and bio-cultural heritage from powerful economic interests

Environment ministry rapped

Parliament committee says serious inadequacies in afforestation, biodiversity programmes

Biotech industry has a new patron

Department of Biotechnology is playing venture capitalist to private companies to push biotech research in agriculture

Unholy smoke!

Inclusion of intellectual property in bilateral investment agreements is injurious to the health of developing nations

Beyond failure

What of the Doha round? What of the WTO itself?

In the snakepit

How negotiations on issues moved, or didn't

Testing the CL route

Roche’s Herceptin will be a test case for government and generics industry as India readies to issue compulsory licences for life-saving drugs

World Trade Outcry

How inevitable was the collapse of talks at the World Trade Organization? How engineered was it? CLIFFORD POLYCARP reports from the streets and …

Big tobacco blows new smoke rings

A third front has opened up in their war on Australia’s cigarette packaging rules

Has Modi succumbed US’ pressure on patents?

Prime minister’s statement, agreeing to implement recommendations of India-US joint working group on intellectual property, would make …

EU threat to farmers

Free trade pact with EU will have a severe impact on Indian agriculture, specially the dairy sector

Fall of a premier institute

Amid funds siphoning allegations, future of National Institute of Pharma Education seems bleak

Trade barred

Countries protect their renewable energy equipment. Exporting nations see it as trade barrier  

‘PESTICIDES’ IN DRUGS

Sharad Pawar’s provision for protecting test data in the Pesticides Bill could spill over into trade agreements and hit the drugs industry, too

Non-profit diseases

There is a logic to the idea of neglected diseases. Historically the diseases poor people get--largely in the poorer parts of the world--haven't …

Wooing the judges, openly

There is conflict of interest as US patent owners schedule meetings with Indian judiciary and patent regulators

US pharma strikes back

Upset by the Supreme Court’s endorsement of India’s patent law, the American drug industry is lobbying with Obama to tighten the …

Big step for biocultural rights

The Nagoya Protocol promotes community stewardship of genetic resources. India needs to foster this

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A treaty too many

India is learning that there is a heavy price to be paid for the large number of bilateral investment treaties, or BITs, it has signed in the …

Future compromised

The Earth Summit was a historical opportunity to set the world on the correct development trajectory. Negotiators from 191 countries came …

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The hunt for benefits

India is hailed as a pioneer in implementing the third objective of the Convention on Biological Diversity—fair and equitable sharing of …