New Statesman -

The truth about GM

Colin Tudge — Thu, 28 Aug 2008 09:22:49 GMT

Will GM technology feed the world - or destroy farming, and human health, in the name of corporate profit? How can we tell, when the science is up for sale?

What matters more than anything else is agriculture

Colin Tudge — Mon, 11 Jul 2005 12:00:00 GMT

The right support for traditional farming could help Africa more effectively than any amount of "development". It alone can maintain landscapes and provide jobs for billions who need them

Back to great grandma's cooking

Colin Tudge — Mon, 22 Nov 2004 12:00:00 GMT

The answer to obesity is the same as the answer to hunger: traditional food, locally grown

Back in print - The good fight

Colin Tudge — Mon, 16 Aug 2004 12:00:00 GMT

The Monkey Wrench Gang Edward Abbey Penguin Modern Classics, 421pp, �7.99 ISBN 014118762X

NS Essay - The honesty of science is being compromised at every turn

Colin Tudge — Mon, 26 Apr 2004 12:00:00 GMT

Can we still rely on what scientists tell us? Alas, no. Their conferences and papers are sponsored by industry, their bad results are concealed, their jobs are threatened if they step out of line. Colin Tudge on the corruption of humanity's most precious discipline

When men have lost their reason

Colin Tudge — Mon, 12 Apr 2004 12:00:00 GMT

Is the war on terrorism working? A scientific analysis suggests that it is not and that it has succeeded only in keeping us scared and compliant

NS Essay - 'There will never be any other industry that can employ as many people as farming'

Colin Tudge — Mon, 22 Mar 2004 12:00:00 GMT

By 2050, six billion people will live in cities - as many as now live on the whole earth. At least a billion of them will live in slums. Cities aren't coping and we should accept that the future is mainly agrarian

Profits won't feed the world

Colin Tudge — Mon, 10 Nov 2003 12:00:00 GMT

We will all have enough to eat if we stick to the good, old-fashioned craft of farming. We don't need advanced science, still less the big corporations, argues Colin Tudge

Why nasty guys rule and nice guys let them

Colin Tudge — Mon, 11 Aug 2003 12:00:00 GMT

Even democracies are invariably led by the hawks in society. But we have evolved to help each other and work co-operatively, so doves will triumph in the end

NS Essay - 'Capitalism itself is a false target; the evil is the form we have now, which Jefferson, Madison and Keynes all warned against'

Colin Tudge — Mon, 21 Apr 2003 12:00:00 GMT

Even Gordon Brown and Clare Short want corporations to get stuck in to poor countries and make them more "efficient". They are misguided, argues Colin Tudge