Opinion Pieces

September 2, 2014
Can business and society work together to foster each other’s prosperity? Those who believe so tend to espouse corporate social responsibility (CSR). … Read More

August 30, 2014
More than two centuries ago, Samuel Taylor Coleridge wrote in his immortal poem The Rime of the Ancient Mariner: “Water, water, everywhere, Nor any drop to drink.”… Read More

August 26, 2014
But Asia can manage calamity better with a new mindset and policy innovation.… Read More

August 18, 2014
Because of droughts, China is facing a conundrum of tradeoffs between policy objectives such as providing people with food grains at affordable prices and food sufficiency.… Read More

August 15, 2014 
In South Asia, for example, there is no clean water that can be drunk directly from taps.… Read More

August 15, 2014
In a country where 35 to 40 per cent of food is not consumed, the government urgently needs to reduce wastage to an acceptable level.… Read More

August 8, 2014
Given that India is already struggling to feed its population, its current food crisis could worsen significantly in the coming decades.… Read More

August 4, 2014
China’s intensive growth has been greeted with mixed feelings in the rest of the world, and nowhere do emotions run higher than in the discussion over farmland ownership.… Read More

June 27, 2014
The deplorable conditions of the River Ganga and the abject failure of extensive governmental actions for its clean-up has moved to the top of the political agenda. The new Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi, has vowed to restore Mother Ganga within the next five years.… Read More

June 27, 2014 
FAO has said nearly one-third of food produced every year is either lost or wasted. In other words, every year, nearly 1.3 billion tonnes of food, with a market value of around US$1 trillion, is wasted.… Read More