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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Fuel for the people
IN THE context of the forest department's increasing sensitivity to participatory programmes such as joint forest management, the "anti-people" stance of the article by a senior forester like A N
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Yen for service runs in the blood
Phulchand Yadav, 55, is a mojar specialist who lives with his 12 member family in Dhamoul, a village of 1,200 households along the Punpun river. Besides farming his 1.5 ha holding, Yadav trades in cattle. Although Dhamoul is downstream of Motepur dam, i
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Beware the technology bait
JOINT implementation was the main point of discussion at the recent meeting of the intergovernmental committee on climate change in Geneva. The idea of joint implementation has been promoted
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Vector power versus parallel power
Supercomputers can do in a matter of hours what hundreds of ordinary computers would take months to do. In fact, supercomputers perform tasks considered virtually impossible for ordinary computers.
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Health care needs state control
IT HAS become fashionable to argue that the private sector manages resources more efficiently than the state sector. However, this does not hold true for health care, especially primary health care,
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Working the VR magic
Computers, liquid crystal display goggles and fibre optic gloves are the wands of modern day magicians.
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Can a non geologist head the GSI?
Amit Kumar Ray, president of the Scientific Officers Association of the Geological Survey of India tells Down to Earth why SOA opposes the appointment of "non geologist" D B Dimri as GSI head. The 52 year old Ray refused to be photographed.
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A different breed
Farmers of the future won't have to worry about pests, crop disease and herbicides.
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Has lifting subsidies depressed fertiliser use?
A survey reveals that while using fertilisers, farmers are seldom guided by their price alone.