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
India
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In crisis
The desert city of Jodhpur in Rajasthan is an excellent example of how Thoughtless processes of modernisation and urbanisation have destroyed an extraordinary water management system
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Proposal pilloried
Stringent criticism by the erstwhile Chief Justice of India A M Ahmadi and adverse public opinion apparently forced the United Front (UF) government to do a Volte face on its plan to push, in
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Tale of a baori
Forgetting the lessons of a drought, Jodhpur's residents neglect the Tapi baori
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Cutting disgrace
Increased demand for timber in Pakistan has prompted poor tribals to sell their trees as a means of generating income
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Troubled times
Heavy sedimentation, high evaporative and seepage losses and water pollution are some of the problems afflicting nadis
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Living off others
Jodhpur's gargantuan thirst is telling on the groundwater tables of its neighbouring villages
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Woody Warfare
World forestry talks end without a consensus on a global convention on forests
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An immense potential
There is much in favour of reinvigorating Jodhpur's traditional water sources
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Thirsty islands
Islands in the Bay of Bengal have to contend with increasing scarcity of fresh water
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In custody
The zabo is the chosen water harvesting system of the Chakhesang tribals of Nagaland's Kikruma village. Placed by fate in the rain shadow of a mountain receives 1,613 mm of average annual rainfall. The Chakhesangs have found a way out of their water shor