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. …
On the first anniversary of a historic court judgment, the Bushman organization First People of the Kalahari released an open letter to Botswana President Festus Mogae, detailing the ways in which the government is still preventing them from returning to their ancestral land. On December 13, 2006, the Bushmen won …
An argument over a Valentine's Day gift leads shubhranshu choudhary to the politics of an aluminium ladder On the eve of Valentine's Day, a friend of my son persuades me to take my wife "out for dinner and buy her a nice gift'. I thank her for the idea but …
the centre will recruit around 37,000 personnel under the Indian Reserve battalion scheme for deployment in Naxal-affected states. The decision comes after prime minister Manmohan Singh urged states to "choke Naxal infrastructure and cripple their activities' in a two-day chief minister's conference on internal security in the capital on December …
tribal villagers in West Bengal's West Midnapore district chopped down around 6,600 young eucalyptus trees on a six-hectare state forest department plantation recently. The residents claim the land in the district's Chandra forest range is theirs and they want it back. Forest department officials rubbish the claims and are preparing …
In the last year, Special Economic Zones (SEZs) were a much discussed issue. Most of the discussion focused on two issues, viz. (a) the acquisition of land, rehabilitation, the consequences for farmers and agricultural output, and (b) the cost of the various tax benefits provided to developers of SEZs and …
The study deals with a range of selected issues in the areas of natural resource accounting in land and forest sectors namely physical accounting and valuation issues which are imperative in conversion of physical accounts into monetary accounts and for the integration of the latter into the
The main aim of this study is to make an environmental accounting of the land and forest resources available in Meghalaya so as to reflect the real contribution of these resources to the state's economy. The main objectives in this study are: generation of data pertaining to various components of …
The objectives of this study are to incorporate the natural resources into the State accounts of Tamil Nadu. The specific objectives of the proposed study are to: develop physical accounts for land and water; develop monetary accounts wherever possible; estimate the cost of degradation of water and land resources to …
The indigenous Australian Githabul people now own over 112,000 hectares of national parks and forests in New South Wales, a south-east Australian state. At a special hearing, the Federal Court ratified an agreement reached between the Githabul and the state government earlier this year, giving the indigenous people their native …
Twenty-six years ago, people displaced by the Supa dam were resettled in Karnataka's Uttara Kannada district. The better irrigation facilities promised to them after they were relocated in the district's Ramnagar panchayat haven't materialized. They still face an uncertain future. The people are not allowed to use water from the …
Kiran Chandra combines painting and print-making techniques to comment on the transformation of landscapes by a process of development founded on a will to reduce diversity to a monochrome. Language overlays image, constantly shifting meanings and challenging established referents. The artist likes to use the mundane imagery of everyday life …
on november 28, hundreds of villagers marched to the Mangalore deputy commissioner's office to demand postponement of a public hearing in Bajpe, about 20 km from Mangalore. The hearing was conducted for a proposed special economic zone spread over 1,618 hectares. The Karnataka State Pollution Control Board conducted the hearing …
