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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A depletion of faith
SEPTEMBER 16 this year, as recommended by the United Nations General Assembly, marks the first International Day for Preservation of the Ozone Layer -- the thin layer of gaseous stratospheric ozone
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Bitter truth
A neem pesticide patent acquired by a foreign farm has become for some a pill of contention
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Faith shaken
The nightmare that ruined kobe stays put in the streets of Japan's prosperous cities, shattering a few economic myths
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Snake in the grass
What was once thought to be the friends of farmers and containers of vector borne diseases, are turning out to be a global threat
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Freedoms of two different worlds
The Shuria Committee's "revolutionary" suggestions on revertihg tribal areas back to decentralised Gram Raj systems is unlikely to be accepted by the bureaucracy, says RAHUL
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Conservation crunches
III-conceived nature conservation plans could very well become a bane rather than a boon.for the society
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Conservation boomerang
Can protected areas survive the multitude of pressures without the participation of people? Neena Singh explores the issue
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"No" to bull trawling
Indian fisherfolk are on the warpath once again, targeting joint venture trawling in the Exclusive Economic Zone (EEZ). The National Fisheries Action Committee Against Joint Venture trawling
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Gloom and the glamour town
Stereotyping and labelling of things and process is a practice of comfort: it gives the mind the luxury of having little to exercise itself over. This is more evident in the way people normally
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Avarice!
Given a free hand, industry will turn to huge chucks of forests in the country into ecological graveyards