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Conflicts between nomadic communities over water shortages increase

Activists hack into the public website of the European Climate Exchange

A common vision has joined two major players in the labour and co-op movements. Erbin Crowell considers the implications.

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.

A profile of Bangladesh

Big coal equals big profits, so Don Blankenship doesn’t worry too much about pollution.

By Eliza Carthy & Norma Waterson

By Syriana

By Alastair Crooke

By William Parry

Canadian ambassador to Guatemala guilty of slander

By Mark Curtis

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

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.