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Bioresources, the energy and raw materials derived from plants and animals, could help end poverty.
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Unexpected relief
Nobody expected farm forestry and exotics to become a major source of firewood
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Goa's food bowl getting bare
Environmental degradation, changing land use patterns and poor administrative planning is resulting in the destruction of a unique agro system in Goa.
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Waiting in the wings
Attempts at conserving fruit germplasm as well as creating a market for lesser-known varieties have been far from satisfactory. Also, a whole lot of fruits are yet to be sampled
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Food Safety in Sri Lanka
<p><span style="font-size:14px;"><strong>Food Safety in Sri Lanka</strong></span></p> <p><img alt="" src="http://www.indiaenvironmentportal.org.in/files/country/srilanka/foodsafety_hl.jpg" style="width: 530px; height: 300px; border-width: 2px; border-style: solid;" /></p> <p style="text-align: justify;">In Sri Lanka there is a Food Control System under the Ministry of Healthcare, Nutrition and Uva Wellassa Development. Director General of Health Services is the Chief Food Authority and also the Chairman of the Food Advisory Committee (FAC) established in terms of the Food Act No. 26 of 1980. The FAC is comprised of 19 members. They represent various stake-holders in food safety from Government Departments / Ministries as well as trade and consumers. There is also a Food Advisory Technical Sub Committee that deliberates on issues referred to it on a regular basis. The main function of the FAC is to advise the Minister in charge of the subject of health on food safety policy matters. The Food Control Administration Unit is in charge of the general administration of regulatory and training activities of the country. </p>
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Who will help her learn?
Merely providing schools is not enough to educate the more than 197.34 million illiterate women in India. Far too often, girls have to drop out of school to help their overworked mothers. But female literacy is crucial to a nation"s development and ensuri
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Statehood first, ecology later
Jharkhand"s leaders have successfully pressurised the Centre to consider granting autonomy to this region. But they have still not addressed themselves to local ecological problems
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Sukhomajri at the crossroads
The forest department intervenes to spoil a successful conservation programme of a Haryana village. An assement by Richard Mahapatra
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DENMARK
People collect rainwater without any support from the government. This saves the avoidable overuse of drinking water
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Where development spells misery
For Singrauli residents, each new project has meant another displacement
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Snuffing out lives with pollution
Premature deaths and disease caused by a polluted environment is the most pressing problem in the world today, says a WHO report prepared for the Earth Summit
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Satellite Maps Forests
Jhum farming destroys forest cover in northeast India
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NON INDUSTRIAL TOWNS
ALIGARH Aligarh was among the six districts chosen for the Green Revolution along with Ludhiana in the 1980s. The Green Revolution happened and Aligarh, like many other towns, went on to bigger
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Conserving biodiversity and generosity
An offer of desi ber by a village lad came as a sharp comment on the global politics of biodiversity
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A greenscape goes black
Meghalaya becomes a quarry for uncontrolled coal mining
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Water distribution of Rajsamand Lake in Rajasthan cause of rift
there are conflicting claims over the distribution of water of the Rajsamand Lake by residents of Rajnagar township in Rajasthan and the farmers there. The conflict began after the Water
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McNamara shoots from the hip
Today's neo Malthusians have acquired a fashionable new fig leaf: environmentalism. And Robert McNamara's recent talk in Delhi was an eloquent expression of this trend
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UP farmers continue protest over land acquisition by Reliance
Following farmers' protests against their displacement for land acquired for special economic zones (sezs), the central government on January 22, 2007, held up approvals for fresh sezs. So far, the
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Virus on prowl
A virus is being used to cull the rabbit population in Australia. But will it affect other animals and spoil the ecosystem?
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High on Chinese demand
Rampant illegal iron ore mining in Karnataka s Bellary district