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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Exaggerated efficiency
The benefit of transferring technologies under the Kyoto Protocol s mechanisms is questionable
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Hide Burns
Skin diseases and stomach ailments afflict most of the people living around a tannery area in Kanpur one of the fallout of the failure of the Ganga Action Plan initiated eight years ago
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Skin deep Hinduism
Desperate Hindu extremists are making a mockery of the real problems that the river Ganga faces
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Veerappan is popular...
...among local villagers because he involves them in sandalwood smuggling and shares the benefits
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Wasting Away
Despite the deadline for hospitals to set up bio-medical waste disposal methods having expired, nothing has changed
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Owning a car in Singapore means
l First buying a certificate of entitlement that cost as much as US $ 47,000 in early 1994, over and above the price of a car l Paying 45 per cent import duty on the car's market value to register a
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Power the future
Coal and nuclear power plants are pass ; invest in micropower technologies, says a Worldwatch report
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Under a spotlight
PVCs come under scrutiny as the European Commission launches a debate on its use
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Salmon betrayed
the US government has postponed the demolition of four major dams in Washington, built on the Snake and Columbia rivers. The plan proposes to save wild salmons. The dams obstruct the
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Whaling under veil
four whaling vessels of the Japanese Fisheries Agency will conduct whaling operations in the northwestern Pacific Ocean for research purposes, despite criticism from anti-whaling nations that