Indian farmers are entering the GATT era riding on the bogey of ignorance. Some see GATT as the golden opportunity that will unshackle them from restrictive trade practices, while others see only doom. In this background of misconceptions and rumours, pol

LITTLE attention has been paid to the effects of current and emerging trade arrangements, vis-a-vis GATT, on Indian food security issues. A number of related issues have been given more serious

This verbally loaded anti GATT film is a shrill intellectual harvest that tends to over romanticise the small organic farmer

The move to link trade with environment and sustainable development has heightened Third World apprehensions of a new set of trade barriers

Day before the gigantic Lef-organised rally on April 5, and the only slightly less large demo by the Right with BJP to protest the Indian government's endorsement of the Dunkel draft text for GATT,

India and Brazil strongly protested the North's attempts to link environment with trade

The Karnataka Rajya Raitha Sangha (KRRS) -- a farmer's organisation -- has taken the lead in proposing an alternative to the Union government's draft bill on protection of plant varieties, which is

Despite numerous proclamations of eco friendliness and a deluge of treaties, not much was done in 1993 to make fuelwood and clean water easily accessible to the poor

Pampered European farmers cried foul as the Uruguay Round of GATT raced to a tense finish.

At a recent meeting, Northern environmentalists insisted on GATT taking a tougher stand on environmental issues. The South, however, maintained this would not solve the problem.

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