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 provides employment to people. Most importantly, cooking and eating give us pleasure. …
Agriculture in India has been a part of its rich historical tradition going back thousands of years. The fact that those who till the land and make India a leading agricultural country, the farmers, need certain protection of rights needs, to be looked into. Their efforts in conservation, improvement and …
2010 is the year of biodiversity. It has begun with environmentalists mulling over a study that says plant biodiversity is in for a toss. As the warming proceeds, the levels of nitrogen and carbon dioxide—the two most important driving factors of plant growth—would increase. Darwin’s survival of the fittest would …
The dynamics of plant bioresources including agriculture is different in the hills from those in the plains. The agriculture and forestry are the two major land use types and play an important role in providing food and livelihood security. The structure of vegetation for trees and shrubs layer was moderately …
The UN Convention on Biological Diversity (cbd) recognizes the sovereignty of countries over their biological resources and their authority to determine access to genetic resources through national legislation. The treaty was adopted in 1992 after developing countries bargained for a deal with developed countries that were demanding intellectual property protection. …
The Brahmaputra Valley region has a unique landscape, with the Brahmaputra River and other rivulets running between the parallel hill ranges. The valley gets flooded during the monsoons, which deposit a large amount of silt and debris on the riverbeds. The local communities have developed systems to take advantage of …
Free-ranging horses (Equus caballus) in North America are considered to be feral animals since they are descendents of non-native domestic horses introduced to the continent. We conducted a study in a southern California desert to understand how feral horse movements and horse feces impacted this arid ecosystem. We evaluated five …
KOCHI: The Ministry of Environment and Forests has issued a notification under the Biological Diversity Act (2002) and released a revised list of endangered species in Uttarakhand, Uttar Pradesh, Himachal Pradesh and Kerala. The National Biodiversity Authority has issued alerts to protect 13 animal species and 26 plant species threatened …
KANNUR: The Biodiversity Centre set up at the District Agricultural Farm at Karimbam here under the aegis of the district panchayat will be open to the public on Thursday. The Biodiversity Centre was started by the Agriculture Department with the co-operation of the Community Agricultural Biodiversity Centre at Puthur Vayal …
The Eastern Himalayan region has been proposed as another National Agricultural Biodiversity Heritage Site, based on six indices. The region is the richest in species diversity among the northeastern states of India. It is the center of diversity for several widely distributed plant taxa and a crucible for speciation encompassing …
K.S. Sudhi KOCHI: Scientists are working on projects for sequencing the DNA of a wide variety of trees, fishes, insects and animals as part of a project for barcoding life. Researchers of the Kerala Forest Research Institute (KFRI), Peechi, Thrissur, are working on projects to barcode Oak Leaf butterflies (Satyrid …
CHENNAI: Rules under the Biological Diversity Act, 2002 will be revised by November this year to ensure equitable sharing of revenue from commercial use of biological diversity with the community, said Minister of State for Environment and Forests Jairam Ramesh on Wednesday. He was speaking at the inauguration of an …
AKSHAYA KUMAR SAHOO Laxman Hembram, a Class 9 student of Kalinga Institute of Social Sciences (KISS), has been selected to participate at Tunza International Children and Youth Conference on Environment 2009, to be held in Seoul from August 17 to 23. The programme -- which is being organised by the …
Henceforth Forest department will not be able to take the easy route for tree plantations by planting Akasia saplings. The Opposition during Zero Hour on Monday while questioning the government over its programme for planting saplings, suggested that department should go in for other species of trees which would be …
The bicentenary of Charles Darwin's life and work reminds us that the great biodiversity on Earth underlies natural selection, selective breeding, and the biotechnologies required to provide humanity with food, fiber, fodder, and fuels. In particular, biodiversity affords the development of plant varieties with novel genetic combinations, which will be …
Genetic diversity was studied among 20 common bean (Phaseolus vulgaris L.) landraces collected from different traditional farming villages of Nilgiris District, Tamil Nadu, India, with Random Amplified Polymorphic DNA (RAPD) markers. Evaluation of genetic diversity is essential for conservation, management and to trace the hybrids.
VELLORE: A call to the students of biology to take up the study of biodiversity and bio-resources was made by K.N. Ganeshaiah, Professor in the University of Agricultural Sciences (UAS), Bangalore. Speaking at a lecture workshop on
