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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Icy moves
David Vaughan and Chris Doake, glaciologists with the Bristish Antarctic Survey have published a paper which states that atmospheric warming has caused the disintegration of five ice shelves in the
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Reclaiming clean air
An emissions trading programme, introduced in the US to provide incentives to companies for emission control, could be an effective instrument in checking air pollution
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Reform begins at home
The South Korean non-governmental organisation Citizen's Coalition for Economic Justice (ccej), recently launched the Green Family campaign. The campaign specifically aims at the reduction of
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Shrimp mentality
The <font class='UCASE'>us </font> ban on exports of shrimp from India reflects a myopic approach and is likely to rebound when India takes the case to the World Trade Organization
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The Indian way for Africa?
At a recent workshop on food processing technologies, African specialists felt they have found a way out of the serialised food crisis
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Fishing for trouble
Joint venture deep sea fishing vessels will have a real tough time this season if the government does not implement the Murari committee recommendations
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Test and miscarriage
A sample of fluid taken from the womb can reveal a lot about the health of the unborn baby. This test called amniocentesis is ordinarily given between the 15th and 18th weeks of pregnancy and is used
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Making life sweeter
The unfriendly response of the immune system is one of the main problems in pancreas transplant. But researchers have now developed an ingenious way to combat it
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Combination of rays
For the first time, scientists have combined two complementary imaging techniques to peep inside the human body. Though still in the infant stage, the invention has exciting possibilities
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Banana bane
The World Bank has sponsored an international project aimed at deve loping disease-free bananas involving researchers from Austra lia, the US and Belgium. James Dale of Queensland Univer sity of