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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Toxic travellers
Developing countries are wary of the proposed treaty as chemicals like DDT are still used in many malaria prone regions for vector control
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Wood headed proposal
After almost 10 years of fighting for or against a forest convention, there is not even a common view on why forests are under threat and what should be done
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Free, not fair
Does a country have the right to demand that its domestic standards on environmental protection be applicable to all countries?
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MAIght of OECD
A no holds barred treaty on investments would hand over the world on a platter to MNCs
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Polluter says principle
GEF should have been a liability fund, rather than a guilt fund set up by the North to make up for the global damage it had caused
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Battle for turf
If the South wants to protect its interests against the power of the Bretton Woods institutions and WTO, it will need its own, equally powerful forum
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Challenges ahead
For long lasting commitment, climate negotiations will have to keep all three goals in mind. Can they be tied together?
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UNITED NATIONS
Delegates representing more than a hundred governments have agreed to set-up a permanent United Nations ( un ) body to protect forests. This was decided at the Fourth Session of the
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CNG plan may fail
The Delhi government's decision to ensure all new commercial vehicles registered in the capital switch over to compressed natural gas (cng) from April 1 has run into trouble and is unlikely to
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Worm free
southeast Asian countries, including India, have been declared as guineaworm free by the World Health Organisation ( who ). After small pox, this is the second disease to have been