Features

Jaideep Hardikar travels to the bottom of the social scale, and the women of rural south India, to discover where knowledge and wisdom about seeds are still to be found.

The troubling story of a corporate bid to take control of the world’s food supply, told by Sue Branford.

In many African societies seed preservation was once an almost sacred duty. Isaiah Esipisu explains why it is becoming vital again.

There are almost half a million known plant species, and more still to be discovered. Yet we now rely on just 15 to provide 90 per cent of our food crops.

The world’s seed markets are being gobbled up by ‘life-science’ corporations – but peasant farmers still feed the world. David Ransom reports.

Julio Godoy talks to French de-growth guru Serge Latouche.

Slowing growth could help us work less, live better and save the planet. So what’s not to like about that, wonders Zoe Cormier.

Without growth the economy collapses. What’s the solution? Rowenna Davis asked Oxfam’s Duncan Green and researcher Tim Jackson for their opinions.

Roxana Olivera looks at local opposition to foreign mining companies in Ecuador.

Economic growth is an idea whose time has passed, argues Wayne Ellwood.

Jess Worth looks at how activists in Britain are broadening the climate change debate.

Politicians taking a tough stand on immigration want to keep us in the dark – but Dinyar Godrej explains why we have to hear the stories of those turned away at our borders.

Investigating the truth can be deadly for Russia’s journalists, as Tina Burrett discovers.

After Copenhagen’s dismal failure, social movements from all over the world gathered in Bolivia – here's what happened.

Even the young are not exempt: a Costa Rican schoolgirl recalls the day Canadian immigration officers arrested her.

John ‘Bosco’ Nyombi was removed from Britain to months of fear and persecution as a gay man in Uganda. Eventually, a British judge ruled his removal illegal and ordered that he be brought back. He tells Dinyar Godrej about his journey.

John 'Bosco' Nyombi sought sanctuary in the West from persecution in Uganda – only to spend eight years struggling for his rights.

The facts and figures of deportation around the world.

Twelve years of sanctions and seven years of occupation have taken their toll as Iraqis struggle with wrecked infrastructure and continuing insecurity.

Anarchy, violence and nostalgia for a golden age mark Iraqi politics in the run-up to the elections.