India is, today, the fourth largest producer of drugs in the world and a world class supplier of relatively cheap generic medicines. It is the largest supplier in the world of low-priced anti-retrovirals and exports medicines to over 200 countries. However, major concerns regarding access to medi cines in the country remain.

This paper seeks to map the extent to which civil society actors champion environmental justice in an industrial risk society. It examines the role of civil society actors in Durban, KwaZulu-Natal, in being able to perceive industrial risk and push local concerns in development processes. The paper draws on qualitative and empirical research for a local case study in Merebank, South Durban, to explore how civil society engaged to organize and respond to local groundwater contamination caused by the German multinational Bayer, and also influence construction of knowledge around risk.

Ongoing free trade agreement talks between the EU and India have been

Neoclassical economics provides an effective ideological cover for modern-day sweatshops. (Editorial)

Advocates of foreign ownership of agricultural land say it brings wealth, infrastructure and new farming techniques; opponents say that displaced and deskilled smallholders are often the result. When people talk about land-grabbing the immediate focus tends to be on issues like food security, land sovereignty and worries about a new, financial colonialism.

If the news of alleged illegal mining in Karnataka by the Reddy brothers has generated much controversy, not far behind is the mineral-rich state of Odisha. RTI applications filed in the Odisha Pollution Control Board (OPCB) and State Forest Department have disclosed that illegal mining worth above 2,000 crore is being carried out by Essel Mining & Industries Ltd of the Aditya Birla Group.