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Award-winning researcher, journalist, thinker and activist from India focusing on agriculture, biotechnology and trade policy in the Global South. Trained as an agricultural scientist, he is the author of GATT and India: The Politics of Agriculture, GATT to WTO: Seeds of Despair and In the Famine Trap.

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