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. …
After 22 years, things appear to be moving at the Namdapha National Park in Changlang, Arunachal Pradesh. On January 20, 2006, the park management for the first time organised a meeting between the district administration, state forest officials, the Project Tiger director, and the Lisu , the dominant tribal community …
SC clears mill land sale: The Supreme Court (SC) has cleared the sale of mill land in Mumbai, setting aside an earlier Bombay High court order. The SC has upheld the Maharashtra government's amendment to the rules for development of the
In the global livestock sub-sector, a revolution is taking place that has profound implications for poor producers, people's health and the environment. In recent years, there has been a massive increase in the demand for food derived from animal origin
Kalinga Nagar Industrial Complex, Orissa, January 8, 2006: the fires had flickered out before half the night was through. Cold January air seeped through their thin blankets and chilled them to the bone, as they lay huddled in groups by the highway. It had been a long night for the …
This fortnight 12 tribals were killed in a police firing in Orissa. Their crime: protesting against the acquisition of their land for an industrial park. The state says that it had 'acquired' some 4856 ha of land some years ago and paid handsome 'compensation' to people who held land rights. …
the sarus Crane, the state bird of Uttar Pradesh (up), might become collateral damage in the state's effort to reclaim wasteland for agriculture. The move, manifested as the Rs 1,300 crore up Sodic Land Reclamation (upslr) project , is once again threatening up's wetlands, a crucial habitat of the red-headed …
orissa chief minister Naveen Patnaik was recently injured in a scuffle in the state legislative assembly over a controversial mining contract and forest lease issued to a company belonging to the Sterlite Group. Although an expression of the opposition's wrath over the issue was expected during the six-day assembly session, …
Pakistan A Pakistani journalist, Sarwar Mujahid, has been detained for three months following his coverage of a land dispute between paramilitary forces and military farm tenants in Punjab province's Okara district. The Human Rights Commission of Pakistan (hrcp) has expressed deep concern over the July 31 arrest of Mujahid, a …
comprehensive modelling efforts aimed at conserving land result in plans that are not in tandem with the goal of protecting plants and animals. This claim has been made by researchers from the National Centre for Ecological Analysis and Synthesis, the us. When faced with the dilemma of when, where and …
Bulldozing all opposition, the government of the northwestern Argentine province of Salta broke up a 20,000-hectare nature reserve into plots and auctioned them off to farming and ranching companies. Nearly 3,000 people living in the protected area of Pizarro created by the Salta government in 1995 will now have to …
A nationwide strike, sparked by the recent spurt in eviction of predominantly indigenous families from their traditional lands, left Guatemala paralysed. A regressive tax proposal and the newly signed Central American Free Trade Agreement (cafta) also stoked the protests. The strike was organised by a diverse coalition of over 100 …
www.landaction.org Whether it is the problem of land accessibility in violence-ridden Palestine or an unknown but powerful movement to gain access to land in Guatemala, this website is an unending seminar for issues related to lands. Aimed at bridging the information gap between the people agitating for land and civil …
India's Mahalisagar barrage, sited in Siddharthnagar district of Uttar Pradesh, has become a cause for woe for Nepal. The structure, which has 15 sluice gates, will inundate 150 hectares (ha) of cultivable land in Nepal in normal times. During the monsoon
