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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No greenhorns here...
...in efforts at getting the environmental message across in moving images
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Building on wrong premises
The plan to rehabilitate the victims of the devastating earthquake that shook Latur last year ignores the needs of the villagers and introduces alien construction techniques
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The gassing of a village
A petroleum product factory continues to chug out its poison, despite a decade of protests and official ire
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'Deep sea fishing in India is already a flop'
THOMAS KOCHERY was one of the first persons in India to have taken up the issue of unsustainable exploitation of marine resources and its impact on traditional fishing communities. He rose to national prominence during the 1983 fishworkers" strike in Kera
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Environmental teeth
MORE than 400 saw mills in Orissa, out of 600, may be closed if the Orissa Saw Mill and Saw Pit Act, 1990 -- which disallows the existence or operation of such units within 10 km of a forest -- is
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Calling the third Sector
Non governmental organisations have a vital role to play in motivating the people to manage their own resources better
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Fishy questions
A few organisations have formed a net to keep some of the country's 7 million poor fishermen from sinking without a trace
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Blurred vision in a grey area
Dreams of vibrant, democratic units of self-governance in urban areas may take just a little longer to be realised
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Patterns of chaos
IN HIS now-classic Foundation science fiction series, Isaac Asimov introduced the "science" of "psychohistory" -- the mathematical modelling of social dynamics. The objective of "psychohistory" was
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The fluctuating fortunes of firewood
DURING the '60s and '70s, firewood prices in India shot up dramatically following the gross neglect of the needs of people from forests. The ratio of firewood to food grain prices doubled between