First food: business of taste
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
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
Smaller and more powerful than the conventional, 'neo' magnets may capture half the world market for permanent magnets by AD 2000
A lawsuit filed in the US district court in San Francisco has accused three pharmaceutical firms -Boots Co of UK, BASF AG of Germany and its US subsidiary Knoll Pharmaceuticals -of covering up a
In a bid to protect the ecology of the Kumarakom bird sanctuary, the Kerala High Court recently directed the state government and the Taj Kerala Hotels and Resorts Ltd not to cut,
THE ministry of non-conventional energy sources (MNES) is considering a Rs 1.09 crore 'photo voltaic' project in villages under Vaishali and Patna districts of Bihar. In the first phase of
There is an urgent need for a global environmental watchdog alerting the global civil society to the designs of our governments
History provides important lessons in the management of the environment for administrators, conservationists and their ideologues. But have we really learnt anything from the past?
The benefits of a watershed develqpment programme in Anantapur fail to trickle down to poor farmers
DIPANKAR CHAKRABORTI, director, School of Environmental Studies, Jadavpur University has done significant work among people affected by Arsenic poisoning in West Bengal. According to him even Parts of Calcutta are affected. One of the ways to combat
The failure of the government to ban lethal pesticides, used to control the spread of malaria, poses a hazard to human health
THIS book is an interesting collection of twelve papers on traditional water harvest ing systems, a much neglected issue in the water policy. The list of authors contribut ing papers to the