Hira Jhamtani | Jun 15, 2016 | Free Thinking
The words ‘aid’ and ‘help’ can be misleading. They may mean grants, loans, lines of credit or technical assistance. Almost all these forms of aid have conditionalities attached. And .. we often failed to question the intent behind so called development aid. This is...
Hira Jhamtani | Jun 15, 2016 | Food and Ecological Agriculture
Drawing on two examples from Central Java, Indonesia, this article shows the importance of looking at the local agricultural systems and at the local food cultures when trying to achieve food security and an adequate nutrition. Even though villages may be...
Hira Jhamtani | Jun 14, 2016 | Food and Ecological Agriculture
THE serious food price crisis that hit the world from the latter part of 2007 to most of 2008 has pushed agriculture onto the centre stage of the development debate. The crisis ‐ added to the existing crises on energy, climate change and the environment ‐ threatened...
Hira Jhamtani | Jan 20, 2016 | Free Thinking
The World Social Forum, for some time at least, created a platform for change. Its motto Another World is Possible challenged the status quo of the neoliberalism and globalization era. I do not know what happened to that spirit today. As a reminder to the Another...
