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
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It s all about metabolism
Even lean Asian Indians can suffer from diabetes
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Tall claims
Land conservation policies replete with flaws
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Reserve today, gone tomorrow
Bulldozing all opposition, the government of the northwestern Argentine province of Salta broke up a 20,000-hectare nature reserve into plots and auctioned them off to farming and ranching companies.
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Snippets
• The European Commission gave the green light to five national plans (naps) for the European Union greenhouse gas emission trading scheme and offered conditional approval to three more. The
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Hard times
The provincial capital, Camag
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Like a bull at the gate
The government of Chhattisgarh is in dire need of 1,00,000 bulls. According to government officials, these are needed to breed cows that are to be distributed free to 1.3 million tribal families in
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Fish and foul
Chemical analysis of the famous fish medicine to treat asthma, administered free of cost to millions every June in Hyderabad by members of the Goud family, has revealed it contains no known
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Righting wrongs
The Colombian government has seized more than 1,00,000 hectares from narco-traffickers and will hand it over to peasant farmers and displaced families as part of its new agrarian reform''. The
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In Court
damage control: The Tokyo District Court awarded US $458 in damages to a municipal employee over passive smoking he suffered at his workplace. This is the first such ruling in Japan. The court said
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Rank display
Flowers are unquestionably la mode in India