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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Ecological poverty
As a first step, the new chief ministers should declare themselves the chief environmental officers CEOs of their states
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Sinha's trick
Sinha will make life even more miserable for Indians. Wealth will come about but at the cost of the environment
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International pressure and the civil society
Linking trade and environment benefits industrialised countries in every way. And they will promote their civil society to create a bigger and bigger fuss about it
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A road to nowhere
The government must undertake a serious study of human nature interaction before declaring any area a national park
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Way out of a fix
The heart of the matter is that the government must learn to work with the civil society, its media and the public
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Afforestation
In its search for a strategy for afforestation, a laudable goal in itself, the Madhya Pradesh mp government has once again put its foot in its mouth and buckled down unduly to commercial lobbies.
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Selling coal to Newcastle
The wood market today needs to be organised in a way that millions of wood farmers can meet the country s growing wood needs
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Roads to hell
Indian industrialists, from Bajaj to the Tatas and Birlas, have walked away with environmental rape, partly because they lack conscience
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WTO: a mock battle
Pressures on <font class='UCASE'>wto</font> from the environmental lobbies of the North have grown and the organisation has more or less caved in completely
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The Marlboro people
Indian companies are learning how to fight the civil society from their Western counterparts