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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Too tiny a tweak
What is the solution to India's malnutrition problem? Just a one per cent increase in the protein content of potatoes. Or so believes a group of scientists at the Jawaharlal Nehru University in New
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Stranglehold tightens
Monsanto Corporation has been granted exclusive monopoly over all genetically transformed soyabean varieties. The Munich-based European Patent Office (epo) upheld a patent held by Monsanto on
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Prospecting cleared
Steamrollering objections from lawmakers of various coastal states, the us senate recently approved a plan to survey oil and natural gas deposits beneath the Atlantic and Pacific oceans. Even as
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USA - all love lost
Neither the World Bank nor the US and the United Nations (un) are popular around the world. While there is still some hope of the World Bank being viewed favourably in the international community, the us drastically needs to do something about its image a
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Harvesting wisdom
Ghaziabad initiates rainwater harvesting
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Written in stone
UK stone importers not to buy marble sourced from tiger habitats
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Book review: Social Watch India
Governance acts as the mid wife for development. Accountable and responsive governance is the surest way for perfect delivery of the fruits of development. India s first Citizens Report on Governance and Development, brought out by The National Social Wat
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Website review: http://www.indiastat.com
From the minutest details of India s administrative set up to statistics on villages, this A Z compendium is a treasure house for academics, researchers, policy makers and analysts. The data is collected from various reports, publications and policies b
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Snippets
• Two Indians have won the Ashden Awards for sustainable energy, also known as the
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Dark zones are human made
Groundwater sustains almost 60 per cent of the irrigated land in India. Most districts in India today have larger shares of irrigated land under groundwater irrigation than under surface water irrigation. This ominous change in water use patterns in Ind