Typical agriculture sectors like animal production and processing, aquaculture and its processing, and fruit and vegetable processing, can be water-intensive and generate complex and sometimes severe pollution. Controlling pollution hinges on knowing its quantity (wastewater and solid waste volume) and characteristics (major pollutants and their concentration range, nature of wastes, …
RECENTLY, mood was upbeat among the traditional fisherfolk of India, as the long-awaited report by the Murari Committee on controversial deep sea fishing (DSF), came by favouring the stand taken by them. The report, finalised on January 24, has unequivocally opposed the government's DSF Policy of opening up the country's …
THE squabble over fishing quotas in the European Union (EU) came to a disappointing halt in Brussels last month. EU fisheries ministries, meeting to discuss the fishing quotas for this year, tried hard to bargain against the cuts citing the cause of the livelihood of the fisherfolk which could get …
MUCH hype and publicity later, the first global treaty geared to protect the depleting fish stocks around the world is already running into stumbling blocks, even before its formal ratification. Says a desperate Michael Sutton, fisheries campaign director for World Wide Fund for Nature (WWF) international, "Everyone was very optimistic …
Large-scale episodal mortality among the freshwater fishes of certain lakes of Bangalore City, Karnataka State, India occurred in June 1995. We conducted an intensive study of the Sankey Lake which is situated in Sadashiva Nagar of Bangalore city where fish mortality occurred on quite a large scale during June - …
Amapa, one of the poorest states of Brazil, has won plaudits for its development model. Spearheading the change is Joao Alberto Capiberibe, a former guerrilla who is now governor of the state. Capiberibe's commitment to sustainable development has been described by the environmental group, Friends of the Earth as "unprecedented …
SALMON populations in the Pacific northwest are likely to take a beating unless fishery managers adopt a fresh approach to the problem. A report brought out by a committee of the National Research Council highlights Several threats to the salmon population in the pacific northwest and proposes some measures. The …
South Asian nations - Bangladesh, Pakistan, India, Nepal, Bhutan and Maldives - will now be bound by the South Asian Preferential Trading Arrangement (SAPTA) which is to come into force from December 7. The agreement will allow concessional trade among the seven members. "Arrangements like SAPTA are crucial for the …
THE sun no longer shines on the fast-food industry these days. Kentucky Fried Chicken's maiden venture in India landed the us fast-food giant in a soup, with allegations of carcinogenic chicken being on its menu. And in the UK, McDonald's Corporation seems to have bitten off more than it can …
WHEN the Gujarat High Court ((-,Hc) orders for closing down 756 units in and around Ahmedabad on August 5, and 26 major industries in Nandesari estate in Barcida on September 5 (Down To Earth, Vol 4, No 9) were not followed, contempt petition against government officials was admitted. However, the …
An agricultural revolution is in the offing in the Sabel, the driest zone of the West African semi-arid tropics. The change in agricultural systems is being spearheaded by the Sah Centre set up to ched downward trend to po, by the International C Research Institute for the Semi-Arid Tropics, one …
MINOR forest produce. To tribals anywhere, they form the demarcating line between plentiful food and persistent hunger. But present government policies are pushing more for commercial exploitation of the forests and monoculture plantations. It is hardly surprising, therefore, that today the struggles of adivasi (tribal) movements all over the country …
Only one-fifthy of the total number of lymphoma (tumor of the lymphid tissue or lymph nodes) cases reported in northern India are women says on going US-sponsored study at the ALL India Institute of Medical Scitnoes (AIIMS), New Delhi. Doctors at the Institute have examined 200 patients from several north …
Intellectual property rights have been given avirtualgoby in Pakistan. The evidence is the flood of pirated books, music, audio casets settes and computer software, mo smuggled in from the Far East Japan and Hong Ka China, Pakistani environmentalists, howe tend to challenge the concept of in lectual property rights as …
A QUIET revolution is gradually transforming the landscape in the villages of Rajasthan's Udaipur district, turning barren and denuded land into thriving patches of green vegetation; Sangwa is one such village. On August 4, Jagdish Chandra Ameta proudly received the Indira Priyadarshim Vriksharmtra Award for 1993, given to the Sangwa …
The scenario in the fishing industry is alarming. The state of straddling fish stocks is a global disasaster and overfishing is a major problem. The structure of the fishing industry has something to do with this. Japan takes in the world's largest haul - twice as much as China. But …
PROGRAMME for Technological Careers (Protec), a South African educational charity is hellbent on nullifying the myth created by the erstwhile apartheid regime: Blacks can't do science. It is now determined to rekindle Black children's enthusiasm for technology by introducing special school lessons. For the first time, technology is brought into …
TRYING to forge a strong link between the researchers and the industrialists has proved to be a thankless job for the British government. The office of science and technology is about to come up with a report on a unique scheme called Realising Our Potential Awards (ROPA). Introduced in the …
Sri Lankan environmentalists fear that unregulated exports of exotic species of birds and fish could spell big trouble in the y future. Jagath Gurawardena, spokesperson for the Society for Environmental Education, quoted in The it Sunday Leader, points out that nearly all of the indigenous species of fish that are …
MEMBERS of the Samahang Mangangwil 79 (Sm79), or the Hook and Line Fishers'Organisation - a fisherfoWs organisation in San Diego, Philippines, did not attend the recent UN Conference on Straddling Stocks and Highly Migratory Species. Nor have they heard about the drama enacted between Canada and Spain off Newfoundland in …
THERE has been lot of mixed reaction to the decision taken by the Voluntary Action Network India (vani), a Delhi-based voluntary organisation to look into the blacklisting of 564 ngos across the country by capart (Council for Advancement of People's action and Rural Technology). "We demand that the government set …
