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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Forest matters
There is an urgent need for a global environmental watchdog alerting the global civil society to the designs of our governments
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Relevance of history
History provides important lessons in the management of the environment for administrators, conservationists and their ideologues. But have we really learnt anything from the past?
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Tall promises
The benefits of a watershed develqpment programme in Anantapur fail to trickle down to poor farmers
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'Calcutta is sifting on a time bomb ... '
DIPANKAR CHAKRABORTI, director, School of Environmental Studies, Jadavpur University has done significant work among people affected by Arsenic poisoning in West Bengal. According to him even Parts of Calcutta are affected. One of the ways to combat
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Lethal gambit
The failure of the government to ban lethal pesticides, used to control the spread of malaria, poses a hazard to human health
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Ancient wisdom
THIS book is an interesting collection of twelve papers on traditional water harvest ing systems, a much neglected issue in the water policy. The list of authors contribut ing papers to the
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Rising from the ashes
Today more than two thirds of Japan's land area is under forests as a result of a state sponsored afforestation drive which actively involved the farmers
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Fallacy in figure
During the 1980s the rate of destruction of natural forests was reduced as compared to the 1970s. Most of the deforestation took place in the forests of the dry deciduous zone
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N C Saxena
NO FIRM data are available to account for the extent of loss of forest cover in India or the annual rate of deforestation. In fact, estimates vary so widely that a degree of combativeness
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Beginning afresh
Shell, the multinational oil giant, vows to clean up the Niger Delta