India’s Renewed Biofuels Push to Disrupt Agriculture, Worsen Inequality
Can a country ranked 101 out of 116 on the World Hunger Index talk about a surplus it can use to make biofuels?
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Can a country ranked 101 out of 116 on the World Hunger Index talk about a surplus it can use to make biofuels?
The goals and targets are based on questionable assumptions made without reference to past experiences of oil palm cultivation.
Will the three ministries – environment, power, jal shakti – who approved these contentious projects, be held accountable for any future ecological disaster?
Article commemorating the murder of Dr. Dabholkar, the well known campaigner against superstition and for scientific temper, on August 20, 2013.
The Indian government’s plans to unbundle the railways and privatise its key parts mimic the UK privatisation model. Now the UK government has admitted to its failure. India should seriously reconsider whether it should go ahead with its privatisation plans.
The silence of both French and Indian governments, and regulatory agencies, on the three-part series by French investigative portal, Mediapart, is telling indeed.
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