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Monika Mandal, IndiaSpend.com

Why the latest plan to fund climate action is bound to fail developing countries

The $100 billion a year promise is inadequate as poor nations will need $600 billion every year from 2020 to 2050 to just decarbonise their energy sectors.

Monika Mandal, IndiaSpend.com
· Oct 31, 2021 · 01:30 pm
India’s uninspiring record of deregulating farming could explain why many are worried about new laws

The privatisation of the sugarcane industry in 1998 and the deregulation of Bihar’s Agriculture Produce Market Committee in 2006 led to no significant changes.

Monika Mandal, IndiaSpend.com
· Dec 04, 2020 · 07:30 pm
When India already grows enough brinjal, why does it need a genetically modified variety?

Unplanned growth could set Bt brinjal on the same trajectory as Bt cotton, whose commercialisation was marked by poorly regulated field trials, say experts.

Monika Mandal, IndiaSpend.com
· Oct 17, 2020 · 01:30 pm

A Vajpayee-era law that successfully preserved farmers’ rights may be undone by a new bill

The draft seed bill is a huge blow to the diversity of indigenous seed varieties.

Monika Mandal
· Oct 10, 2020 · 07:30 pm