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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Bamboo biodiversity
Bamboo, the big brother in the Graminae (grass) family is often the first vegetation that sprouts in a degraded forest or a patch left after slash-and-burn agriculture. Most bamboo species
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Made in India
The Discovery channel is currently working on the promotion of new documentary films from India. As of now, the commissioning of new programmes is being managed entirely by the us headquarters of
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Pulp plunder
The Indian paper industry (325 paper mills with a total installed capacity of 3.3 million t) meets around 60 per cent of its fibrous raw material requirements from bamboo, supply of which has
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Sweet residues
AGRO-PROCESSING industries playa pivotal role in both the agricultural and industrial sectors. They provide links between agriculture and industry. The present wave of globalisation has
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India's treasure-trove
India"s treasure-trove Species Number NORTH-EAST REGION: Arundinaria Bambusa Chimonobambusa
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Success is a mindgame
A memory drug developed by Indian scientists could hold the key to a ultimillion dollar global market
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A native renaissance
Indigenous peoples of the world have been objects of downright apathy and brutal repression at worst, and mild tourist or academic interest at best for years. Today, they are fighting to overcome the shadows that dog their collective existence. And the wo
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Might of the right
Under public pressure, the Rajasthan government has formed a committee to examine the implications of the people's demand for the right to information
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Asiawatch
The prospect of an International legal Instrument recognising Indigenous peoples, rights to self-determination has had Asian governments in a tizzy. These governments have taken the stand that
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Bloodied and damned
A letter of protest Was written on May 9, to the World Bank (W8) president James Wolfensohn, by the International Rivers Network and the human rights group Witness for Peace, calling for an