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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Spanish folly
When the Spanish found tobacco in America did they bite off more than they could chew? The debate still continues in the form of gutka in India
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Knowledge seeks power
The rights of indigenous communities, which have nurtured traditional systems of knowledge through the ages, will be discussed at length at Bratislava. But the South is not showing any urgency in this direction
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All in a day s work
For women in the hill area of Kumaon, Uttar Pradesh, life is not easy. They have to wear the skin off their knuckles to scrape together a living
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Against the wall
Even as experts argue that seawalls are not an answer to coastal erosion, the Kerala government is planning another project
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A bean full of problems
In utter disregard of environmental and health safety norms, the Indian government has okayed a deal for import of soybean to satisfy oil extraction units
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Vanishing species
The Indian subcontinent is set to lose about 1,500 species of precious plants
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Piercing problem
The syringe exchange programme to contain the spread of AIDS in Manipur has no takers
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Dolphin power
an eight - year - old British boy spoke his first words after swimming with dolphins, reported British newspapers. Nikki Brice, starved of oxygen at birth, had been left unable to
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Facelift for Taj
A multilateral collaboration will try to take the world s most beautiful structure back to its original glory
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MONEYMAKERS
left in the lurch: Enron Corp has withdrawn its plan to set up a US $ 6 billion hydroelectric-power project in Nepal. With this, the company's grand plan has been stalled for South Asia. Enron's