Jan 9, 2021 In the News India Need to think beyond minimum support prices (Financial Express) Governance Financial Express published an op-ed by former Director of the South Asia Region PK Joshi and AK Padhee. The authors write that the three new farm laws, since their enactment, have been a subject of intense debate […]

Countries: Bosnia and Herzegovina, Croatia, World Source: Human Rights Watch After a fire destroyed the temporary emergency camp in northwest Bosnia on December 23, 2020, hundreds are housed in tents that do not meet basic humane housing conditions, it said.

Key pollinators like bees and insects have experienced dramatic declines in their numbers, yet their plight receive precious little attention in the news media, scientists say. A team of researchers at the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign in the United States did a search of nearly 25 million news items from […]

Speaking at the World Health Assembly last year, Chinese President Xi Jinping called for “solidarity and cooperation” in developing coronavirus vaccines, “our most powerful weapon” for tackling the pandemic.

The economic impact of COVID-19 on the world’s most populous region is threatening to further undermine efforts to improve diets and nutrition of nearly two billion people in Asia and the Pacific who were already unable to afford healthy diets prior to the pandemic, says a new report published today […]

Building Relationships with Tribes and Operating on Reservation Lands: Lessons From FMC v. Shoshone On 11 January 2021, the United States Supreme Court declined a petition to review the Ninth Circuit’s decision in FMC Corporation v. Shoshone-Bannock Tribes. In that case, the Ninth Circuit upheld a tribal court decision requiring […]

The COVID-19 pandemic has reinforced the need for a transition to sustainable diets not only for environmental reasons but also for the health of humans. From the coronavirus’s spread at a wet market in Wuhan in China to the cases of hundreds who have died across meat factories in the […]