Image rights: Devinder Sharma |
Devinder Sharma is a distinguished food and trade policy analyst. An award-winning Indian journalist, writer, thinker, and researcher well-known and respected for his views on food and trade policy. Trained as an agricultural scientist (he holds a Master’s in Plant Breeding & Genetics), Sharma has been with the Indian Express, amongst the largest selling English language dailies in India. And then quit active journalism to research on policy issues concerning sustainable agriculture, biodiversity and intellectual property rights, environment and development, food security and poverty, biotechnology and hunger, and the implications of the free trade paradigm for developing countries.
The popular Indian weekly magazine The Week in its Independent Day Special (issue dated Aug 16, 2009) has listed Devinder Sharma among the 25 Most Valuable Indians, calling him ‘Green Chomsky".
Among his recent works include, four books:
• GATT and India: The Politics of Agriculture;
• GATT to WTO: Seeds of Despair
• In the Famine Trap
• Bhhokh ka Asli Chehra (in Hindi)
Sharma keeps a popular blog on the politics of food, agriculture and hunger in devinder-sharma.blogspot.com
|
Check Twaweza books, No Nonsense Guides to various topics and new PM Press titles!
