STWR - Share The World's Resources

The 'new world order' of the 21st century is unsustainable on its present course, but offers the promise of shared prosperity if we can rise to the challenges of an era of global convergence, writes Jeffrey Sachs.

Though China continues to be a major player in global food exports, growing resource constraints and environmental costs could mean an end to “easy” growth for Chinese agriculture.

Greater government intervention is needed to moderate the severe economic swings and inequalities that seem to be an unavoidable byproduct of globalization, according to a United Nations report released yesterday.

Robert Mugabe’s coronation is the time to start preparing in detail for the aftermath of his regime, say Ashraf Ghani and Clare Lockhart.

Allied to global agribusiness, the agrarian elite of Bolivia are fomenting a coup as they struggle for control of the life-blood of the economy, writes Roger Burbach.

Far from stymying the environmental cause, the downturn in the world’s economies highlights just how pressing it is, writes Rajendra Pachauri (chair of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change).

Latin America is defined by a series of paradoxes that befuddle commentators, from the economy and popular support for leftist movements, to profits, growth and hunger, writes James Petras.

The food crisis is actually a convergence of two crises - that of speculation driving a 'bubble economy', and the crisis of global agriculture created by international financial institutions, writes Sameer Dossani.

There is no cheap alternative to a green economy - and no trade off possible between the economy and ecology. What we need is a green industrial revolution and a 'new New Deal', writes George Monbiot.