Reproduced from an article by David Bollier: “Over the past twenty-five years, thousands of women in small villages in the Andhra Pradesh region of India have escaped from working as low-paid, bonded laborers, to become self-reliant farmers able to grow enough to feed their households. Food was once unaffordable and hunger common. MORE >>

Some of them tend towards, pursue, or are developing their own economy. Phyles are transnational communities with their own distinctive and diverse identities that develop or pursue different forms of Economic Democracy for their members and their environment. It will soon be time to interconnect and network them worldwide. MORE >>

At the end of the nineteenth century, when the first “modern utopias” appeared as part of the popular cultural flowering that led to the First International, the impulse was rationalized, was argued, was developed didactically by imaginary local societies. original article has many links). This is not at all an exclusively Iberian phenomenon. MORE >>

Those that say that the green revolution will save the world should come and see the hundreds of thousands who have committed suicide in India,” he warns. Satheesh points out that as many as 100,000 of the farmer suicides have been in Punjab, which is the centre of industrialised agriculture in India. They emanate hope.”. MORE >>

He writes: “Given the challenges faced by researchers in the developing world, is open access publishing likely to advance their scientific work in a meaningful way? It is not surprising that today the best scientists in the developing world submit their work to international journals. More needs to be done. MORE >>