
Living energy
Bioresources, the energy and raw materials derived from plants and animals, could help end poverty.
Recipe for a livable planet: achieving net zero emissions in the agrifood system »
Pulse production in India is touching an all time high, but the benefits are reaching only a few because most farmers are ignorant about the new, easier to grow varieties, and about agronomic practices that would make the crop less of a risk.
14/11/1993
What happens if conservation is based on half baked knowledge? Ask a person rendered homeless by wildlife managers <br><br> No conservation strategy will succeed in India unless the biomass requirements of the local communities are harmoniously integra
French peasants fearing withdrawal of subsidies under the European Community's agricultural policy must be relieved to find the just concluded GATT did not ask for any radical changes.
14/01/1994
The world over, the pockets where the poor live are used as environmental dumps. PAUL WAPNER debates the environmental ethics of International politics
30/07/1995
The army has taken to environment resuscitation with prganised fervour, but is still facing a barrage of criticism from state forest
14/11/1994
Dr. S. Ramani, senior scientist Agricultural Entomology , Project Directorate of Biological Control Indian Council of Agricultural Research , Bangalore speaks to Down To Earth
<p><em>For growing economies the stress has to be on patterns of natural resource use and not on the status of natural resources; that is, dealing with the causes rather than the symptoms of the problem
<p><em>Redistribution has been kept out of the agenda of the United Nations, and a new global agenda, goals and rules to share responsibility and prosperity can lead to a new world </em></p>
<i>I</i><i>n the story from the great Indian epic, </i> Mahabharat <i>, the legendary hero Arjun was once telling his wife Shubhadra how to penetrate the virtually unassailable ancient battle formation, </i> Chakravyuha <i>, destroy it and get out unscat
30/08/1996