The damage done: Aid, death and dogma

24 May, 2005

Unfettered free trade policies backed by the British government have led to a crisis in Indian agriculture, spiralling rural debt and an epidemic of suicide among poor farmers, says the new Christian Aid Week report, The damage done: Aid, death and dogma.

Shocking new research reveals that more than 4,000 farmers have killed themselves in the Indian state of Andhra Pradesh since the