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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Pitcher pure
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Effective alternative
The natural water supply and sanitation programme initiated by the Indian government is an effort to solve sanitation problems and wastewater disposal in rural areas. In the absence of proper drains,
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Indigenous clue
a plant powder reportedly used by the adivasis of Bihar as oral contraceptive, has been confirmed by scientists to have anti-pregnancy effects. A recent report said that the claims of tribal
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Waste not
Kitchen waste and aquatic weeds are the newest sources for biogas and manure. The days of cowdung are numbered
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Well worth it
Modifications in a traditional water harvesting system promises to augment supplies
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United Nations
Ministers and top government representatives from over 100 countries assembled at the 19th session of the governing council of the United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP) in Nairobi, Kenya,
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Ban binge
the ministry of environment and forests (mef) has taken strong exception to the free import of fertilisers by the industry, encouraging foreign countries to dump toxic wastes on Indian soil. The
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Taking off together
High Speed Civil Transport, a joint US-Russian project to test Russia's supersonic airplane, the TU-144L on which future concords are to be modelled is underway at the Tupolev aviation complex in
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Rise of a fabric
Indian coir industry pins its hopes on the growing market for coir in the West
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Smoked out
One of the biggest tobacco lawsuits was set in motion in the US recently with lawyers sending notices to potential claimants. These include former and current flight attendants on US airlines