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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Matching wits on fluid issues
THE COMMITTEE SUGGESTS: • Fresh calculation of the quantum of flow to avoid revision of plan priorities • Efforts to achieve a 60 per cent irrigation efficiency •
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Shortages of plenty
Local resource depletion started when hunter gatherer humans grew roots
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Treasure tapping
THE Environmental Resources Research Centre (ERRC) in Thiruvananthapuram, Kerala, seeks to promote research and studies in identification of natural resources, and their use by developing required
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The view from the rigging
The oil industry could have gone crackers
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Future in the past
LADAKHI tribals have started dreaming of going blonde, having blue eyes, owning 2 shiny cars and wearing skin-hugging jeans! There is a worrisome increase in the incidence of violence between
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Sexual distinction
A new technique enables the determination of the sex of cattle and goats at the embryonic stage
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Ephemeral Eden
The city of Sigiriya in Sri Lanka with its magnificent gardens survived for just 18 years
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Ethnic bonding
Neglected Nilgiri tribes gathered together to celebrate their ethnic identity and work towards community development
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Dead on the information highway
THE pitiable status of India's communications infrastructure and information technology was last evident, in sputtering neon, when the Indian government went overboard with its economic
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Meat mischief
A method to identify from raw meat the sex of the animal that it came from could check meat adulteration