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. …
MAKING A POINT: B. Manicka Tagore, Virudhunagar MP, addressing a seminar at Gandhigram on Friday. DINDIGUL: Special Economic Zone project that boosts country
Sustainable development has assumed utmost importance in view of the increasing demands on the finite natural resources due to increasing population and need to protect fragile environment. Remote sensing and GIS techniques have capability to assess the available natural resources and its use, and provide information for transformation of alternative …
Officials told to ensure that farmers get a good price for their produce ERODE: In promoting various crops, Horticulture Department officials should ensure that they do not take away land under food crops, C.V. Sairam, senior scientist, Zonal Project Directorate, Indian Council for Agriculture Research, Bangalore, has said.
Precise characterization and inventorization of soil resource of Moolbari watershed was undertaken using satellite imagery and Survey of India toposheets to generate several layers of maps such as watershed boundary, drainage, soils, land use and land cover, physiography, slope and soil erosion using Geographic Information System technique.
ITANAGAR, Jan 13: The Itanagar Permanent Bench of the Gauhati High Court has questioned the silence of the State Forest Department during the hearing of a writ petition (civil) filed by Vijoy Tachang against grant of Land Possessing Certificate (LPC) for more than 50 hectares of land to one particular …
K Narasimhamurthy, Kolar, DHNS: There is a tug of war between Forest Dept and Bangalore University over land acquisition The new year is full of bright hopes for the people of Kolar City. The students, lecturers and staff members of the Post Graduate Centre of Bangalore University will soon have …
K. Balchand NEW DELHI: A committee appointed by the Union Government has found fault with the entire process of land reforms, particularly the dubious role of officialdom, and called for revisiting the land ceiling limits and that too with retrospective effect. The Committee on State Agrarian Relations and the Unfinished …
Mumbai The Bombay High Court has directed the Union Ministry of Environment and Forests to produce the entire records based on which permission was given for demolition and reconstruction of a large part of Wankhede stadium. Petitioner Amit Maru has challenged the use of railway land by the Mumbai Cricket …
The ongoing acquisition of land measuring over 1,500 acres for various development projects in Greater Mohali area has met with a stiff opposition from landowners. Whether it is the land acquisition for the garbage dumping ground, connectivity to upcoming international airport, mixed land use or the Mullanpur Urban Estate, the …
The livestock sector is transforming rapidly in response to shifts in the global economy and changing societal expectations. Society expects the livestock sector to provide safe and plentiful food and fibre for growing urban populations, livelihoods for more than a billion poor producers and traders as well as global public …
As the dust settles after Copenhagen and the barriers to reaching global consensus on combating climate change are put into stark relief, REDD still has potential to become a UNFCCC success story. In relation to REDD, there is agreement on many core issues and significant momentum remains towards a REDD …
This paper applies the principles of water-use accounts, developed in the first of the series, to the Indus River basin in South Asia. The Indus Basin covers 3 countries, rises in the Tibetan plateau in the vicinity of Lake Mansarovar in China. Irrigated agriculture in the Basin is extensive with …
This paper investigates the direct and indirect impacts of ethanol production on land use, deforestation and food production. A partial equilibrium model of a national economy with two sectors and two regions, one of which includes a residual forest, is developed. It analyses how an exogenous increase in the ethanol …
This report explores the evidence of whether payments for watersheds can be good for ecosystems and for reducing poverty too. It describes what the protagonists in a range of watershed sites around the world have learned in their efforts to set up such payment schemes.
This paper applies the principles of water-use accounts, developed in the first of the series, to the Ganges river basin in South Asia. The Ganges basin covers six countries, the river rises in the western Himalayas in the Uttarakhand state of India, A unique feature is the strong seasonal variation …
Latest comparative analysis of environmental achievements , challenges and priorities among Indian states. Provides overall picture of state-level sustainability by aggregating data on states
The loss of natural habitats through destructive anthropogenic activities has been identified as one of the major drivers of environmental degradation. This is even more prevalent in developing countries where poverty and ignorance of the value of biodiversity is rampant. A pilot study was conducted in two highland wetlands in …
Geomorphology is an important aspect which guides immensely in urban planning. Mapping of geomorphology not only gives an idea about the variations in landscape but also indirectly facilitates in evaluating the resources of an area. Present study shows the capability of satellite data in delineating major geomorphological units in an …
