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A recent UN report praises governments for promoting the right to food. At the same time, India’s Food Security Act will encounter resistance at the WTO meeting in Bali in December. Can India play an exemplary role in the global power struggle over food security?
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The controversy surrounding the World Food Prize and the Food Sovereignty Prize over the use of genetically modified organisms lends itself to a one-dimensional narrative. There is an urgent need to look beyond this stalemate
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Livemint published Gateway House’s Rajni Bakshi’s article on food security. Pegged on the controversy surrounding the World Food Prize, Bakshi analyses the need to accelerate responsible agriculture to lift millions of people out of poverty, and on ways to meet this goal.
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Trusteeship is commonly, and mistakenly, equated with individual or corporate philanthropy. Instead, the true essence of trusteeship is about a better alignment of business and society, profits and the larger common good. Why is it imperative for businesses in a maturing democracy to embrace trusteeship?
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Rajni Bakshi, Senior Gandhi Peace Fellow, Gateway House, delivered a lecture at the ‘International Day of Non-Violence’ at the UN Convention Centre in Thailand, on October 2. In her lecture, she spoke about the significance and the greater potential of non-violent means in achieving the goals of today’s world.
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The Economic Times published Gateway House’s Rajni Bakshi’s article on the concept of ‘trusteeship.’ She argues that the true essence of trusteeship is about a better alignment of business and society, profits and the larger common good, and that it is imperative for businesses in a maturing democracy to embrace it.
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The Hindu published Gateway House’s Rajni Bakshi’s article, ‘The science of non-violence.’ She argues that re-stating our intention in favour of non-violence is an essential starting point in addressing the several issues that plague our world today.
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What good has the ideal of non-violence done for the victims of terrorist strikes or of the wars launched to fight terrorists? There is no simple answer. And yet, on this birth anniversary of Mahatma Gandhi, re-stating our intention in favour of non-violence is an essential starting point
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Recently, the Indian Parliament passed two key legislations - the Companies Bill and the Food Security Bill. How will these seemingly unconnected legislations together empower technologies and business models that pose serious challenges to building a market economy that’s in sync with democratic aspirations?
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Alibaba, a family of Internet-based businesses, published Gateway House's Rajni Bakshi's Article on Fair Business, Fair Growth. She discusses that ramifications of the Village councils in the Niyamgiri Hills of Odisha vote against mining in their area which decided the fate of billions of dollars in investment.
