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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Waiting for the fever
The beautiful Seven Sisters have a deadly commonality. All the 7 north-eastern states have been found to be endemic to malaria. This has been reported last fortnight by the expert committee on
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Homing in the forest
It seemed too good to be true. A recent order of the Karnataka government allowed the 650 tribal families living in a part of the Rajiv Gandhi National Park to collect minor forest produce to build
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Tiger ties
India and China have signed a protocol in the first week of March in Beijing to cooperate in stopping the poaching of tigers, and curbing the smuggling and illegal use of tiger bones and other parts.
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Gasbagging
How good are the North's offers of joint implementation programmes with the South to cut the latter's carbon dioxide emissions?
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Troubled waters
States view the draft water information bill as an instrument of Central interference
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Forests march
A walkathon through 5 states traverses through a rich crop of traditional conservation methods and a thicket of disputes
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'There is a conflict in gene patenting in India and abroad'
ASIS DUTTA, a senior biologist at the Jawaharlal Nehru University, New Delhi, is the first Indian scientist to have applied for a gene patent in the United States of America. Two years ago, he succeeded in isolating a gene which codes for an ideal protein
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Right signals
Indicators of sustainable development provide a solid basis for decision making
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Pampering potatoes
Potato storage seems to fare better with indigenous methods employed by farmers for generations
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Placebos are better
DESPITE its eminent contributors, publisher and volume, Reaching India's Poor seems to be only rationalising the diminishing role of the state in the public health sector. The introduction says that