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Kashmir’s apple farming struggling with the effects of climate change.

Luciana Ghiotto, Bettina Müller and Lucía Barcena examine how Europe’s attempts to secure the raw materials for green technologies are following a tried and tested path across the Global South.

Barbados took the plunge and ditched the British monarchy two years ago. Has anything really changed since? Amy Hall reports.

There was a World Tax Organization? Alex Cobham envisions a global body to clamp down on tax dodging.

How to create a food system where everyone gets to eat.

A people’s vaccine; Policing the police; ¡Adelante!

Access to life-saving Covid-19 vaccines should not be reserved for the rich. But that is what’s happening on a global scale today. Heidi Chow calls for technology to be shared and patents to be suspended in order to unlock vaccine production for all.

Michael Fakhri, the UN Special Rapporteur on the Right to Food, has a bold vision for a trade system that reflects how people actually eat.

Why does the current market economy not serve the best interests of the people? The problem has deep roots, writes Richard Swift. But there is another way...

Drug patents were scrapped? Husna Rizvi makes a vital suggestion.

For more than half a century, economists and policymakers have focused fanatically on growth as the only feasible way to end global poverty and improve people’s lives. But in an era of planet-wide ecological breakdown, that comfortable conventional wisdom is crashing to an end. Jason Hickel lays it on the line.

Poverty between – and within – nations doesn’t just exist. It is created and needs constant maintenance. Warning: extremely violent content. Words: Dinyar Godrej.

The world has never been better. From global poverty to inequality between nations, all the indicators are showing progress. This is a comforting narrative – popularized by the likes of Bill Gates and Steven Pinker. But is it true? Jason Hickel examines the rise of this so-called ‘New Optimism’, with its ‘battle cry for the status quo’.

Vanessa Baird concludes with 14 ways – at least – towards a better global trade.

In talks about trade, something vital is omitted: the environment.