Battling against tobacco

Guatemala is exploring the possibility of legal action against multinational cigarette firms, the first such move by a country

Cargil abandons plant

The enemy within

Monkeying with money

Reluctantly funding developing countries for research on CFC substitutes is another exercise in enriching multinationals who created much of the …

UN gives MNCs a clean chit

A recent United Nations report absolves multinationals of the environmentalists' charge of shifting ecologically harmful industries to the South. …

The revolutionary who transformed health care

ZAFRULLAH Chowdhury draws inspiration as much from Hippocrates as from Mao Zedong. To the first, he owes his medical ideals and to the second, …

Whither liberalisation

The post-GATT liberalisation era has come to India not only with its enchanting platter of economic efficiency, technological treasure trough …

Power problems

MNCs allergic to Third World ills

THE WORLD'S PHARMACEUTICAL INDUSTRIES: AN INTERNATIONAL INDUSTRIES: AN INTERNATIONAL PERSPECTIVE ON INNOVATION, COMPETITION AND POLICY Robert …

Corporate farming

Pakistan's proposal to allow multinationals into its agriculture sector may be bad news for the environment

Foot in mouth disease

Only a sea change in farming techniques will help save the European agricultural sector from disasters like the foot-and-mouth disease

Land of sufferance

People of a village in Orissa wage a battle against mining companies to protect their lands

Farmers take on multinationals

Small farmers protesting the monopoly of multinationals over the world's food resources take to the streets in Bangalore.

India needs the science of the common people

It's a paradox that while the government is busy opening up the telecom sector to multinational companies, technocrat Sam Pitroda, perhaps the …

If the burner's too big, make it fit

A pharmaceutical multinational in India has set up an incinerator that suits it just fine

Objections find few ears

Protest in the backwaters

Wisdom from an obscure archipelago

In Down To Earth's first Country Report, ANIL AGARWAL and SUNITA NARAIN look at Papua New Guinea, its short but volatile transition to the market …

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Nigeria demands safety report on oil pipelines

Farmers split on merits of Dunkel proposals

The attack on a Bangalore seed company was reported as the start of a farmers' movement against globalisation of agriculture. Now, some …

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Biotechnology for poor farmers

It's a myth

Delhi hosts Water Asia 2000

Amid private companies' high-tech solutions to the water crisis, CSE presents a decentralised view of water management