Associations of women farmers, who manage, and may even own, family land and grow food rather than cash crops, are changing parts of India; and in doing so, they are earning new respect.

Hillary Clinton wrote a thesis on Saul Alinsky and Barack Obama learned from his social mobilisation techniques. Now his method has reached France.

Just buying the ingredients from London’s Billingsgate Market for a wonderful fish meal exposes customers to moral, economic, social and ecological quandaries from around the world’s oceans.