May 21, 2012

Globalising agriculture is not sustainable

Logo - UN World Summit on Sustainable Development - Johannesburg 2002

India and China are committing “one of the greatest crimes in history” in agreeing to allow Western agricultural produce into their markets, says Edward Goldsmith, founder of The Ecologist magazine and a celebrated pioneer of Britain’s environment movement since the sixties. Original title “Opening markets is not sustainable”. LONDON, August 26, 2002 (IPS) “Opening up [...]