World migration report 2024
The International Organization for Migration (IOM) launched the World Migration Report 2024, which reveals significant shifts in global migration patterns, including a record number of displaced people
Food Security
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Heard at the conference
"Children in India remain malnourished while foodgrains rot in our granaries. The key to this is proper management of our granaries.' V Ramalingaswami National Research Professor "There's a
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Deja vu
The discussions at the conference were like old wine in old bottles
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Fixing the drought
To uplift the poor it is important to understand the root cause of poverty
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Climate change and dams: An analysis of the linkages between the UNFCCC legal regime and dams
This study looks at the linkages between dams and climate change. It analyses the climate change legal regime as represented by the UN Framework Convention on Climate Change and its Kyoto Protocol and attempts to highlight the relevance of its provisions, decisions and processes to the planning, appraisal, design, construction, operation and
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To ensure food for tomorrow
Rice and wheat yields are falling. To check it a new initiative has been taken
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Three avenues, one goal
The focus is on development of hydropower, industries and food production: how sustainably can the targets be achieved?
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Making a beginning
Community management of natural resources is still in the nascent stage
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Proactive planning
It s not about fighting the problem later, it s about pre empting the problem. Measures against air pollution and plastics are all about taking proactive measures
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High Altitude Dilemma
It is an intriguing view from the high mountains of Bhutan. To the east lies Nepal, grappling large scale environmental degradation. To the north and south, China and India, overwhelmed by the pressure of 2 billion people. Several examples of what Bhutan
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UNITED NATIONS
The international commu nity's goal to reduce half of the world's food availability problem by 2015 will not be achieved as per schedule, according to the Food and Agriculture Organisation (FAO).