Focus on the Global South India
Set up in 1997 in Mumbai, Focus on the Global South, India, is presently located in New Delhi. It has been set up to do policy research in three broad thematic areas: trade and investments; commons; and climate and environmental justice. As a policy research organisation, FOCUS does charitable activities through educating the people about the key issues in these thematic areas and what people can do to deal with the issue. READ MORE
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DOWNLOAD This report on Fisheries, the Climate Crisis and the Indian state’s response captures the discussions in a two part dialogue series on Policy and Livelihood Challenges for India’s Fishing Communities. The collaborative dialogue series brought together...
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DOWNLOAD Authors Jaya Mehta and Vineet Tiwari write on findings from their research and long term engagement with the Kudumbashree programme in the Indian State of Kerala. In this Hindi publication, they propose a model of collective farming, keeping women and...
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DOWNLOAD The World Trade Organisation (WTO) will host its 12th Ministerial Conference (MC) from 12-15 June 2022 in the looming shadow of the pandemic and the Ukraine war. Key issues at Geneva include the proposed waiver of patents to ensure access to COVID vaccines...
DOWNLOAD A discussion paper by Forum for Trade Justice, Third World Network and Focus on the Global South, in collaboration with Rosa Luxemburg-Stiftung South Asia. Report compiled by Jai Vipra The Twelfth Ministerial Conference (MC12) of the World Trade Organization...
DOWNLOAD by Resmi P Bhaskaran and Rajesh Ravi Three years into the pandemic, this report assesses the track record of the Indian state of Kerala in addressing the health and livelihood challenges during the peak crisis period. The authors elaborate on how the...
DOWNLOAD Author: Jaya Mehta The author is a Delhi based researcher with the Joshi-Adhikari Institute of Social Studies. This timely report by agriculture economist Jaya Mehta begins with an analysis of the 2020 agricultural reforms in India and the role of women in...
DOWNLOAD The World Trade Organisation (WTO) will host its 12th Ministerial Conference (MC) from 12-15 June 2022 in the looming shadow of the pandemic and the Ukraine war. Key issues at Geneva include the proposed waiver of patents to ensure access to COVID vaccines...
DOWNLOAD Author: D Raghunandan One of the saddest episodes of the COVID catastrophe in India was that of hundreds of thousands of migrant workers who found themselves stranded, abandoned, and compelled to make their way back to their villages after an ill planned...
DOWNLOAD This paper draws attention to the gendered responses to the COVID-19 pandemic in the state of Kerala. Having been cautioned by the previous contagions like the Nipa Virus, Kerala had a different story to tell from the rest of India in terms of...
DOWNLOAD At a time when the COVID-19 pandemic has laid bare the disastrous effects of the global neoliberal order, highlighting the need for radical redistributive reforms, India has chosen the opposite path. The three new agricultural laws enacted by the government...