First food: business of taste
Good Food is First Food. It is not junk food. It is the food that connects nature and nutrition with livelihoods. This food is good for our health; it comes from the rich biodiversity of our regions; it
Traditional Knowledge
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AMAZON
The Shaman tribe of the Amazon rainforest have sought to revoke a patent granted to businessperson from the us on their most sacred plant, a vine called ayauasca , which has medi cinal
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Payday boom
Higher incomes have increased the exploitation of popular plants like the rhododendron
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TRAMPLED DESTINIES
What happens if conservation is based on half baked knowledge? Ask a person rendered homeless by wildlife managers <br><br> No conservation strategy will succeed in India unless the biomass requirements of the local communities are harmoniously integra
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Popular science
Traditional science and technologies are crucial to the everyday life of a large part of India. But will the traditions hold on?
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Drugged by chicken
Antibiotics in meat make disease causing bacteria resistant to cures
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Bird brained decisions
A ban on grazing follows a decision to allow harvesting of grass in Keoladeo
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Germany goes green
Environment friendly farm policies will be the new paradigm
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Still vexed
Regulating access to biodiversity and ensuring justice for its traditional knowledge holders
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Colours of Nature
An organisation in Mumbai documents the presence of dyeing pigments in microbes and plants
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Fast food
<font class='UCASE'>pushpesh pant</font> rediscovers Amaranth once the poor man s grain, today an expensive health food