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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Luxurious guzzling...
Or how Delhi's five star hotels drown their sorrows
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Drunk on water
A full 10th of the city's water creates the most pampered oasis in the country
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It's only tanking up...
But it keeps the city alive
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Thrice dammed
Three dams could bailout Delhi if plans flow right...
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The minute metal munchers
Some fungi and bacteria can be used to extract metals from mine effluents
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Squeezed to the last drop
Who will fill the city's depleting aquifers?
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The drowning of a city
There are both in Delhi criminal waste, unendurable want. And in this city of verdant veneers, nowhere does the callous politics of dispossession show its slip more than in the titanic economics of water. Water led the way to the formation of cities; th
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Exploiting earthworms for fertilisers
Vermicampost worm excreta is emerging as a feasible substitute for chemical fertilisers
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'India is close to aquaculture disaster'
JOHN KURIEN, a faculty member at Thiruvananthapuram's Centre For Development Studies, which devotes itself to developing linkages between research and action, finds teaching the economics of fisheries to researchers as important as teaching economics t
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The great water rip off
URBAN India faces a water crisis Madras to Jodhpur, most cities are already facing the crippling effects of scarcity. There is hardly any city in India that canboast of a 24-hour water supply. But