Malawi economic monitor, February 2024
Watersheds play a crucial role in sustaining the ecosystem, biodiversity, wildlife, agriculture, and human population by serving as the natural resource base for all forms of life. These natural boundaries
Watershed Development
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A profane proposal
10 years ago, <i>Down To Earth</i> reported on the state of sacred groves in India see: <a href="full6.asp?foldername=19940131&filename=Anal&sec_id=7&sid=3"><font color=red><i>Down To Earth</i>, January 31, 1994 </font></a>. Patches of forest protected
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Market pulse
Lahu Fale does not have to think twice about market availability, price and transportation when it comes to deciding which crops to grow. Now he and other farmers in Pune's Kolwan Valley can sell
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Tapping potential
IN ORDER to tap the potential of unirrigated lands, the Union government is formulating a new national policy on agriculture. The thrust of the policy will be finalised after discussion with states.
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Lesson not learnt
Soil conservationist P R Mishra's search for the source of silt in the Sukhna Lake took him to Sukhomajri, a village in the denuded Shivalik hills.
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Fizzy logic
Coca-Cola
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2006: The waterloo year
T he year 2006 will go down as environment's watershed year. This is not because this year we have had extraordinary success in environmental management; there was also no environmental disaster <i>per se</i> . This year must be remembered because the task of environmental management has come to be even more contested and even more challenged.
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The laboratory of development
How will vast regions of India, where highly unreliable rainfall makes the difference between famine and sustenance, cope with climate change? Over 85 per cent of the cultivated area in this country
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BAIF Development Research Foundation (BAIF)
BAIF is committed to provide sustainable livelihood to the rural poor through management of natural resources and promotion of livestock development, watershed development and agri-horti-forestry as major
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People's Science Institute
PSI is registered as a society in New Delhi, under the Societies Act (1860), and under the Foreign Contributions Regulations Act (FCRA) with the Ministry of Home Affairs. Its activities are spread all
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Sadguru Foundation
The organization Sadguru Water Development Foundation, an NGO, established in 1974, dedicated itself to the betterment of rural and tribal people by helping them make better use of available resources,