Subjects Archives: Agriculture

Bayer’s vision for agriculture in India includes prioritising and fast-tracking approvals for its new products, introducing genetically modified (GM) food crops, addressing labour shortages (for weeding) by increasingly focusing on herbicides and developing herbicides for specific crops like paddy, wheat, sugarcane and maize. 

The $7.3 billion offer from the investment fund falls significantly short of the Venezuelan refiner’s valuation.

Most of the fires have been caused by deliberate burning of lands and improper disposal of highly polluting waste.

Burkina Faso will nationalize two gold mines at a cost of about US$80 million.

As hunger threatens millions in southern Africa, some of the governments in these wildlife-rich countries have started harvesting game such as elephants, hippopotamuses, buffaloes, zebras, and others to feed their citizens.

The post-Malabo process to determine the next decade of agricultural policy has so far been characterised by outside influence and exclusivity.

Advancing degrowth in Ireland requires an understanding of, and a reckoning with, the economic legacy of its colonised past, CUSP researcher Seán Fearon writes. A post-colonial economy within planetary boundaries must break with relationships of dependency and structures of unsustainability.

Human history is rarely dull but we are living through a period in which pivotal change is taking place.

Both aquaculture and fisheries have environmental and climate impacts—and they overlap more than you’d think.

The following is the transcript of a speech delivered by UN Climate Change Executive Secretary Simon Stiell on 10 April 2024 at Chatham House in London, England.

The Dayak peoples of Borneo have been fiercely resisting the encroachment of palm oil plantations on their ancestral lands for many decades.

New Mexico’s unprotected waters demonstrate how pollution, drought, and the climate crisis converge to harm communities.

Marx and Engels’ concern with soil provides a focus for understanding the relationship between capitalism and the environment, argues the MARX MEMORIAL LIBRARY.

The New England Journal of Medicine reported the case of a Texan farmworker infected with HPAI H5N1. He suffered the hemorrhaging in the eye the cows he tended expressed.

With scientists warning of imminent catastrophe, it is time to stop expecting our rulers to change course by persuasion; only militant anti-capitalism will work, argues John Clarke.

Between 2008 and 2022, land prices nearly doubled throughout the world and tripled in Central-Eastern Europe.

With Lima failing to tackle critical issues on global warming, Bolivia outlines socialist project to save the planet.

The two phenomena, a reduction in real wages and a reduction in employment opportunities, in fact go together.

The wildfires in Canada kept burning all winter, and a new season is set to be catastrophic, as climate feedback loops accelerate disaster, warns John Clarke.

Recent years have seen renewed debate on climate strategy on the left. Here, Kai Heron responds to the arguments of the proponents of a left ecomodernism, and argues that it risks reactionary political consequences.