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A decade ago, the movements of peasants, fisherfolk, shepherds, women, migrants, workers, young people, and indigenous peoples sowed a crucial seed in the defence of Food Sovereignty and the right to food—the Nyéléni Newsletter.  During this ten year germination period, we have shared challenges, ex …

A guide for concerned citizens, activists, journalists and policymakers The ECT was signed over two decades ago without much public debate. It protects all investments in the energy sector, including coal mines, oil fields and gas pipelines. Any state action that harms a company’s profits from these …

It would be a mistake for progressives in Asia to assume that the Biden presidency would steer the US in a direction that would boost, or even align, with their struggles for justice, human rights, public interest and peace domestically, regionally and globally. The Biden and Trump models of governa …

As they mark their 76th year, the International Monetary Fund and the World Bank have been presented with a grand opportunity, not to save the world, but to salvage their tattered reputation. The Fund enters the annual IMF-World Bank meetings with a big image problem. Covid-19 presented the Fund wit …

Climate change, social inequalities and the democratic crisis – the critical global challenges of our times – are all tied to an economic system that is dominated by financial markets. Today, global finance is not only fueling environmental destruction, but also leading to ever-increasing dispossess …

While food sovereignty has long been practised at the grassroots level, the concept has not won the popular support needed to significantly influence government policies and programs as a step towards more meaningful systemic change and transformation. One obvious reason is that capitalist interests …

This is the Hindi translation of Important differences between the final RCEP electronic commerce chapter and the TPPA and lessons for e-commerce in the WTO, by Professor Jane Kelsey, Faculty of Law, The University of Auckland.

The Covid-19 pandemic has illustrated how irrational the financial sector has become. Even as the real economy has ground to a halt, stock prices have gyrated wildly, first collapsing, then shooting up. Even as hundreds of millions suffer, big tech corporations like Apple are gaining in value and ri …

Published by Focus on the Global South and Alternative Law Forum in collaboration with the Rosa Luxemburg Stiftung –South Asia The publication is a collection of papers presented at a symposium organised in Bengaluru, India in June 2019. These include Observations on corporate presence in agricultur …

by Walden Bello Co-published with the Transnational Institute (TNI) The Covid-19 pandemic has provoked widespread discussion of what kind of future the world should look forward to after the crisis. One of the areas of economic life around which there is spirited debate is the global food system. Th …