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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Bills of contention
Two legislations on plant genetic resources have been proposed. But who benefits?
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Scientific performance: publish or perish
IT IS extremely difficult to measure the scientific performance of a nation, both statistically and in terms of effect. But the few indicators that do exist clearly indicate that developing countries
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A stitch in time
Forget dugout canoes and catamarans take a ride on a sewn boat
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The logic of importing lowly dung
THE largely deprecatory reports in the Indian media about the proposed import of Dutch dung have missed a key point. The idea seems to sound so outlandish because dung is a lowly thing in the
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The closing of the gates
A controversy boiled over when the construction sluices were closed abruptly and affected scores of people
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Tanking up on history
NOTED environmental activist and writer Anupam Mishra's recent book on tanks is a significant contribution to environmental studies for at least three reasons: first, it establishes the historical
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Tongue twisting in easy steps
A software package allows material in unfamiliar Indian languages to be read in 10 others
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Riding the waves with an eye on a star
Traditional sailors are skilled in roaming the seas with nature as their guide
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Up in smoke
Illegal marijuana cultivation leads to a systematic butchering of the rich rainforests of Kerala
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Family plot
Timely practices of mulching, watering and pruning have allowed the Kachares to thrive on "barren" ground