India

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
- 01/01/2029
- Centre for Science and Environment (CSE)
- - Health
  - Nutrition
  - Traditional Knowledge
  - India
  - CSE

Propagating sustainable technologies

A MALAYSIAN of Indian origin, Shirin Gadhia of Gujarat was shocked at the recurrent droughts in a naturally well endowed country. Gadhia, who has studied animal breeding and genetics in West Berlin, returned to settle down in Valsad district of the state.
- 30/04/1994
Playing in the concrete jungle

THE tireless cliche that India lives in its villages has been open to gross political abuse. So much so that our plans for our cities have been victims of feeble-mindedness. The Nagar Palika Bill,
- 30/04/1994
- - Nagarpalikas
  - India
Farmers dig nature's dams

Using local material like boulders, wood and soil, Nepalese farmers have evolved an intricate system of canals and weirs for the optimum utilisation of scarce water resources
- 30/04/1994
- Down To Earth
Digging out the foes

Animal rights is what this group set out to repair. Then all of Earth came under its care
- 30/04/1994
Equal water, level tempers

Local farmers' organisations settle all disputes on the sharing of water
- 30/04/1994
- Down To Earth
Everything you wanted to know about patents

High tech is making patent information easier to access
- 30/04/1994
- Down To Earth
- - Patents
Rice fields forever

BIOTECHNOLOGY has been occasionally caught giving itself a pat on the back and parrying questions of ethics by flaunting its effects on crop production, rice included. The information contained in
- 30/04/1994
Equitable 'environmental space' for all is going to be the new issue

JOHN HONTELEZ"S concern for the environment began in 1969 when, as a 15-year-old, he got irritated by the use of packaging and plastics. One of his first campaigns was to oppose the shift in his school canteen from stone cups and iron knives to plastics.
- 30/04/1994
Questionable thrust

Scientists pinpoint shortcomings in the new draft technology policy
- 30/04/1994
- Science
Just preventing the worst

Not for nothing is Germany's BUND at the vanguard of the global environmental movement. It offers not only criticism but solutions as well
- 30/04/1994
- - Pesticides
  - Nuclear Power
  - NGO
  - Germany