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
India
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Electric motion
Electric cars and scooters may soon be a reality on Indian roads
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Wild and unprotected
Poachers and smugglers continue to snip through the tatty net of existing Indian wildlife protection laws
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Indebted forever
Since 1985, countries -- particularly in Latin America -- have negotiated several arrangements to reduce their crippling debt burden. They promptly ended up losing the right to decide what to do with
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The dark side of Indian science
What fearful paralysis of spirit is it that ails the Indian scientific establishment?
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Turning an old leaf
PLANTS support human life. Period. Today, a majority of people in the developing countries depend on fuelwood, dung, charcoal and agro-wastes for their cooking, heating and other energy requirements.
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Current solutions
This time round, US secretary of energy Hazel O'Leary's visit to India was a successful business trip
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Jinxed dam
A fresh snag hounds the controversial Sardar Sarovar Project
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Mangrove graves
Aggressive shrimp farming is slowly breaking down the last ecological barrier against tidal waves and cyclonic gales in coastal Andhra Pradesh. Rapacious aquafarmers are marauding the rich mangroves
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Oilseed bonanza
Indian markets may soon be flooded with high yielding hybrid seeds of mustard and rapeseed
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Wrenching control
The unique selling point of Sixto Roxas's social accounting matrix is its generous flexibility. "First and foremost," says Roxas, "the social accounting matrix provides a precise description of the