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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New vision
Iron and steel industry acknowledges the havoc it wreaks on the environment
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Veritable treat
A number of biological methods are available for the treating wastewater
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The problem with India
Why is it that this nation has had to depend on Western hand me downs?
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Farewell to fertilisers
The Netherlands position as an agricultural superpower stands threatened unless it shifts to eco friendlier organic cultivation
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Blitzkrieg against polio
Efforts to vaccinate children in eastern Africa against polio have been so successful that the region is expected to be polio-free by 2000, according to the Centre for Disease Control and Prevention
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Nigeria
The spirit of Ken Saro-Wiwa still lives on in Ogoniland and so does the spectre of Royal Dutch Shell, the petrochemicals giant. According to the movement for the survival of the Ogoni people (mosop)
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Tanzania
The king of all animals in the Serengati game reserve, Tanzania, is facing annihilation. Lions in the game reserve are dying in hundreds from canine distemper disease they contracted from pet dogs,
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Bony home
Some of the earth's strangest creatures live around hydrothermal vents
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Tracking syphilis
Did the Europeans bring syphilis with them, a venereal disease caused by infection with the bacteria Treponema pallidum , or did they catch it from the places they travelled and take it back to
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Sex, parasites and immunity
Sex lives of parasites may have an important role to play in the evolution of diseases