Articles by Devinder Sharma

Paying farmers for ecosystem services that they provide could be a novel way to achieve multiple goals of doubling the farm incomes, reduce rural–urban migration, reduce pressure on urban infrastructure, and at the same time, incentivise sustainable agrarian practices in India.

The Gates donation to the CGIAR for 'biofortification' projects comes at a time when the latter is struggling to survive, and has become something of a service centre for corporate interests. A greater humanitarian purpose would have been served had Gates instead donated grants to institutes and groups that would have helped reach available food to the poor, to ensure that the hungry are adequately fed.