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
India
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Right end of the stick
China recently introduced a 5 per cent tax on disposable wooden chopsticks, in a bid to conserve its forests. Millions of trees and bamboo plants are cut every year in China to produce 45 billion
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Linear approach
Aproposed gas pipeline that is supposed to pass through Mizoram has evoked strong protests from the Human Rights Network of Indigenous-Tribal Peoples, North East Chapter. Protesters claim the
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Scrap from Russia is cheaper
So Pakistani shipbreakers accept hazardous warships
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Stricken
The idea seemed right for district Dungarpur. <font class="UCASE">nfwp</font> began with the preparation of a five-year district perspective plan (<font class="UCASE">dpp</font>) detailing work that could be taken up at every block level and <i>gram panchayat</i>.
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In short
a dam to protest: Opposing the ongoing preparations for the Polavaram dam project, tribal organisations of the state staged a day-long bandh in the state's Khammam district on March 24, 2006. The
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Impotent plan?
In August 2005, the Indian Parliament passed the National Rural Employment Guarantee Act <font class='UCASE'>nrega</font> . The latest avatar of state financed employment guarantee schemes <font class='UCASE'>egs</font> geared to alleviate rural povert
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Losing cover
Soil erosion threatens food security and environment
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Nobody s children
A plantation economy, land grabbing and migrations from neighbouring states have forced Gudalur s tribals into destitution
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Bottled loot
AT the fourth World Water Forum held in Mexico City in March 2006, the 120-nation assembly could not reach a consensus on declaring the right to safe and clean drinking water a human right. Millions of people the world over do not have access to potable water supply.
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Private water, public misery
Privatisation of water is taking root in India, often aided by political and bureaucratic corruption. Alongside, resistance to this is also building up.