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
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The Indian experience
Climax is reached when succession proceeds without disturbance and the vegetation type is in complete equilibrium with the environment. As climate appears to be the most important factor in
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Sugar of death
The World Health Organisation (who) has reported a 3 per cent rise in the incidence of diabetes the world over. The total number of diabetic patients in India stands at 20 per cent, 2nd highest in
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Beastly gene
A disorder that causes hair to appear an over the body has been traced to a mutant gene
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Societies and sustainability
The two volumes are the result of the combined effort of CUSO***, a Canadian NGO, and environmentalists from Asia. The contributors share their experiences on a wide range of issues ranging from
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Bees before blossoms
A new finding suggests that bees may have been around about 100 million years before flowering plants appeared
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The politics of aiding
National budget constraints have forced leading donor nations like the us to cut assistance to developing countries down to almost 20 per cent in 1993-94. But Japan, the world's largest donor, has
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Sage advice
Africa's researchers and scientists discuss their traditional knowledge and developmental skills for better sustainability
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Some seed
The tiny fruit fly (Drosophila bifurca) holds the record for the longest sperm. Researcher Scott Pitnick of Bowling Green state university, Ohio, found that the fly produces sperm that are 60mm
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Flowering contentions
A Kenyan bid to enter the global flower market withers some of the North's near monopoly profiteering
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Pike sense
Canadian researchers have identified the first species of toilet-trained fish - pikes select secluded areas to deposit their faeces to safeguard against being detected by their prey (New