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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Mistaken intentions
When a team of young French civil servants selected by the Paris-based Foundation Nationale Entreprise et Performance (FNEP) visited India in the second week of November, the media was quick to
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Up in arms along the coasts
Indian fisherfolk are up in arms against the foreign trawlers that have been permitted to fish in India's coastal waters by the Indian government. The leaders of fisherfolk associations from 9
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Shrimp farms in muddy waters
Recent protests by villagers of Puddukottai, Thanjavur and Nagapattinam districts in Tamil Nadu, against mushrooming shrimp farms near their settlements, have forced the state government to establish
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First rights
Union minister of environment and forests Kamal Nath has asserted the first users' right over natural wealth during his recent tour to Madhya Pradesh. Nath followed the statement with a letter to
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Monumental victory
A Kerala High Court order quashes quarrying operations which had dealt a bodyblow to megalithic tombstones in the state
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Save our soil
The National Academy of Agricultural Sciences, a non-governmental organisation providing agricultural scientists a forum to Interact on important agricultural issues, released a policy paper
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Fast order
The Madras high court seeks to evolve a mechanism for the quick settlement of environmental disputes
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Succour for AIDS hit
aids-afflicted people across the country are expected to benefit from the Union government's free anti-retroviral treatment project. The first phase of the plan will commence from April 2004 and
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Unputdownable
Star-studded campaigns, millions spent and 20 new cases of polio to show for it. The reason being offered by Uttar Pradesh (up) is lack of adequate routine immunisation. The affected districts are
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Private affairs
The invitation was innocuous. The Confederation of Indian Industry <font class='UCASE'>cii</font> the grouping of the large and most powerful industries was convening a meet on forests. The purpose, said the invitation which reached us by chance ,