Seaweed soiree
Seaweed may emerge as the future food alternative of India and curb infant mortality besides being an "energy crop"
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INDIA
• The Indian Council of Agricultural Research will 'set up 500 new centres through institution-village linkage for transferring technology to farmers. This was stated recently by P Das,
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Food insecurity
Environmental degradation would undermine China s food security in the coming 30 years
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Big gains from pigeon pea
A high protein crop makes good economic sense
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How green was the revolution
THIS is a collecton of papers originating from a study of the North Arcot district in the early '80s, undertaken under the auspices of the Washington-based International Food Policy Research
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Dilip Cherian on lobbying mechanisms
<img src="../files/images/20080615/50.jpg" align="left"> <I><font color="#FF3333"><B>PRADIP SAHA </B></font> talks to <font color="#FF3333"><B>DILIP CHERIAN,</B></font> founder and consulting partner of image management firm Perfect Relations, about the clash between public relations and public interest</i><br><br> <b>There is a political process to public policy. Does corporate lobbying go against that democratic norm? </b><br>
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The missing link
Why do humans have such large brains? Switching over to eating meat may have been responsible
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Vexed vitamins
Vitamin C may produce free radicals that may cause cancer
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I drink cola, therefore I am?
Cola Companies It was the year 1960. As the Democrat J F Kennedy and Republican Richard Nixon contested for us presidency, the Democrats came out with a poster of Nixon, with the phrase, "Would
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Home remedies
Right from the backyard
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MONEYMAKERS
• FARNWAY, a farmers' cooperative in northeastern England, is all set to pave the way for bio-diesel-fuelled vehicles. It plans to run its cars and lorries on bio-diesel produced from rapeseed.
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For want of iodine
An iodine deficient diet may be responsible for the Neanderthals' disappearance
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Back to the breast
Many organisations in the country are working at weaning parents from the bottle to mother's milk
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Spinach gives green signal to smokers
A diet rich in leafy vegetables and minerals can ward off cancer of the mouth, claim researchers.
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Our country, our mess
How s India doing in providing basic social services?
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Visionary
Blind terror: 80 per cent of the world's sightless are in the developing world, and the number will double by the turn of the century. Carl Kupfer is the director of the National Eye Institute, Betheseda, USA. He tells the author that blindness is not onl
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Ups and downs of Indian health
India faces an acute double burden of disease. While nutritional and communicable diseases remain serious, non-communicable diseases are on the rise, says the eighth report of the World Health
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Poverty perspective
Reduction of poverty remains one of the foremost global challenges. An estimated 1.3 billion persons in the developing world will live in. absolute poverty by the turn of the century. While the
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Death watch
Of the estimated 52 million deaths worldwide in 1996, about 40 million were in the developing world, including nearly nine million in the least developed countries. Of the 40 million deaths in the
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UNITED NATIONS
The UN world food body has reached a landmark agreement for saving the diversity of agricultural crops. Members of the body, including the US, have decided to make it mandatory for plant breeders and