Opinions

Africa and the WTO: the perils of weakening the development agenda

by Biraj Patnaik and Timothy A. Wise allAfrica October 9, 2015

In the 2013 WTO Ministerial in Bali, India stood mostly alone as the rich countries tried to isolate the government for its stockholding and food security program. But India is far from alone in recognizing the value of public food reserves as insurance against price volatility, emergency food in th...

Global goals must fight the poor nutrition that kills 3 million children every year. The sustainable development goals need to reflect the complex cau...

by Dolf te Lintelo and Nick Nisbett The Guardian September 30, 2015

One of the final acts in the lengthy process of creating a new set of global sustainable development goals (SDGs) was completed last weekend when world leaders formally adopted 17 goals and 169 targets. But for those of us who seek to tackle the world’s collective failing in ensuring adequate nutr...

Why Pope Francis’s call to care for the poor is so contagious

by Cardinal Donald Wuerl Washington Post September 22, 2015

With enormous enthusiasm, our entire community prepares to welcome Pope Francis as he begins his apostolic journey to the United States right here in Washington D.C. It is a time for all of us,...

Education gap between rich and poor is growing wider

by Eduardo Porter New York Times September 20, 2015

The wounds of segregation were still raw in the 1970s. With only rare exceptions, African-American children had nowhere near the same educational opportunities as whites....

In Myanmar, a soft coup ahead of an election

by Min Zin New York Times September 11, 2015

Campaigning formally started on Tuesday for Myanmar’s first general election since the end of direct military rule, but don’t be fooled by the display of colorful logos and slogans from various political parties: The army is back in force....

Here’s why industrial food is deceivingly cheap

by Danielle Nierenberg and Emily Nink Christian Science Monitor September 8, 2015

Conventional agriculture isn’t cheap. From the use of artificial fertilizer and pesticides to the obesity epidemic, our current food system has a number of hidden costs to the natural environment and human health, far outweighing the benefits of cheap food....

Destruction of US credibility at WTO: It is hypocritical of the US to give price support to its farmers while denying it to the world’s poorest farm...

by Timothy A. Wise and Biraj Patnaik Live Mint September 8, 2015

The tenth ministerial conference of the World Trade Organization (WTO), to be held in Nairobi on 15-18 December, is already mired in discord, with negotiators unable to agree on a mandated post-Bali work programme....

Julian Bond had the long view of this journey toward justice

by Marcia Davis Washington Post August 20, 2015

Combing through the many tributes that have appeared since Julian Bond’s death, I was struck by one photograph in particular....

The end of polio in Africa?

by Washington Post August 20, 2015

AFRICA HAS reported some genuinely good news in the battle to eradicate polio. Late last month , Nigeria passed a full year without a case of wild poliovirus. As of Aug. 11, it has been a year since the last case was detected anywhere on the continent (it was in Somalia). These anniversaries are uno...

The GM labeling law to end all labeling laws

by Timothy Wise Food Tank August 17, 2015

As the vitriol intensifies in what passes for debate over the safety of genetically modified foods, scientific inquiry, thankfully, continues. A Tufts researcher, Sheldon Krimsky, recently published his assessment of the last seven years of peer-reviewed evidence, finding 26 studies that "reported a...

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