Description: | Devinder Sharma is an award-winning journalist, writer, thinker and researcher respected for his views on food and trade policy. Through his writings, he focuses on the inextricable link between biotechnology, intellectual property rights, food trade and poverty. Having a strong voice in several international organisations and civil society groups, Sharma is at the forefront of the a campaign against introduction of genetically engineered crops in India. He was the first one to warn against GATT policies and everything he said in his first major work "GATT and India -- Politics of Agriculture" has come true. India is living through his prophesies made in his "In the Famine Trap" in 1997. His forthcoming book, "Keeping the Other Half Hungry," is an incisive analysis of how the globalisation is accelerating the process of marginalisation of farmers in the Third World. |
Address: | 7, Triveni Apartments,
A-6, Paschim Vihar,
New Delhi - 110063
India |
