Graham Peebles

Graham is an artist, writer and director of The Create Trust, an NGO he founded in 2006. He has run education projects and teacher training programs in Palestine, India and Ethiopia, where he spent two years working with local groups in Addis Ababa. His website is here.

Ailing from distorted development: healthcare in India

So where has the growth gone; who is it for? Who has benefited from the ‘economic miracle’? The middle class have become rich; the rich have become super rich: the super rich stellar rich.

By Graham Peebles

/ 19 Nov 2013

Corporate colonisation of new India

Twenty years of corporate colonisation of the Indian countryside has fuelled conflict, forced-urbanisation and the breakdown of the democratic ideal.

By Graham Peebles

/ 8 Oct 2013

Displacement, intimidation and abuse: land loyalties in Ethiopia

Industrialized farming in Ethiopia is far removed from the concerns of local small-scale farmers and traditional pastoralists. Impoverishment of hundreds of thousands of Ethiopians and their intense suffering has been the inevitable outcome of military and corporate 'development' plans.

By Graham Peebles

/ 26 Mar 2013

Indian farmers trapped and desperate

A wave of suicides has swept through the Indian farming community in recent years as, driven into heavy debt by deadly competition, many small farmers don't see another way out. A market-fundamentalist Indian government has so far refused to take its responsibilities to stop this growing epidemic.

By Graham Peebles

/ 30 Jan 2013