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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Filling in the "big picture"
DEVELOPMENT, environment and science could be said to be the troika driving modern progress. But while the United Nations has been offering the "big picture" on the first two through its annual
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Knowledge without frontiers
"THE international mobility of students is a massive phenomenon, " says the World Science Report 1993. Out of a total of 61 million students in the world, about 2 per cent (1.2 million) study in
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An industrialist turned organic farmer
For Jayanth V Barve, generating vermicompost is equivalent to converting waste into gold
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A blunder undone
THE Prime Minister, P V, Narasimha Rao, took a commendable step by revoking the patent granted to the US company, Agracetus, in 1991. Agracetus was awarded the patent for its transgenic cotton by the
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Cotton king
In the US, Agracetus has control over all forms of genetically altered Cotton
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Hacked heart
Why did they have to do it?
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Home where the blackbuck roam
The religion of the Bishnoi community in Punjab has protected the blackbuck
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Paying for the North's "eco dumping"
Every country should have, the right to protect its people and environment from the negative actions of foreign countries. Based on this basic principle, the German Minister, Klaus Topfer was right
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Pitching in for the count
Volunteers and wildlife department officials spread out over the Abohar sanctuary in February to count blackbuck
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To get in touch...
Animal Welfare Board of India 60, Fourth Street Abbiramapuram Madras 600018 Phone:452903,456801 Beauty Without Cruelty(India Branch) 4 Prince of Wales'Drive Post Box 1518 Wanowrie Pune