A new deal
We got off the train at Abu Road station in Rajasthan to visit two cement plants located in the nearby district of Sirohi. The drive was predictable dry stretches interspersed with marginal
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Rural employment guarantee scheme does not work as envisaged
THE National Rural Employment Guarantee Act (nrega) promised to provide livelihoods in villages by providing a minimum of 100 days of employment to every household. It was envisaged that this would
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Closing the door on a convention
By asserting the sovereignty of the right to control their tropical forests, more than 40 developing countries are gearing up to counter the North's attempts to regulate deforestation
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Standing the test of drought
After the 1999 monsoon failed in several areas of Gujarat and Madhya Pradesh, there is a serious drought. Summer is a good four months away, and already there are reports of riots and deaths over water. But several villages are well equipped to face the w
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Micropowerful
A microhydel project a day. Communities snatch the initiative from the government to electrify rural Nepal
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Powering people
Proliferating grassroots level activity in Orissa is empowering villagers, taking them closer to a fairytale end to unending tales of poverty and exploitation
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National parks are luxury in Third World
KRISHNA B Ghimire, who is a project coordinator with the UN Research Institute for Social Development in Geneva, has done extensive research on environment and sustainable development. Currently involved with intensive case studies in Brazil, central Amer
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After the last tree is felled...
"Sustainable development" cannot afford to be another epithet in the lexicon of development, but should dispel myths about human-made and natural capital
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Is it time for Asia to abandon the dream of an effective multilateral climate treaty and adopt new approach?
<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
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Sea change in the forest
Tribals in Orissa's Eastern Ghats range are giving up shifting cultivation and fiercely protecting their forests
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Land's end
THIS is the 6th in the World Resources series -- which provides information on environment and development -- and has a special focus on people and the environment. These chapters deal with natural
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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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The answers within
Swadhyay, which literally means study of the self, is a movement that has introduced realistic social change in India s rural communities
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Home truhs, colonial lies
A noted Gandhian historian, DHARAMPAL has enquired into variousfacets of M British Indian society. He has authored several books, including Indian Science and Technology in the 18th century and The Beautiful Tree. In a conversation with MAX MARTIN in
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NREGA needs a paradigm shift
The National Rural Employment Guarantee Act (nrega), 2006, is degenerating into yet another poverty alleviation scheme. At the same time, officials are congratulating themselves on the act's
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Dying of progress
As the reckless plundering of the world"s limited resources continues, nature is striking back where it hurts humans most: disease. People in some places are still paying the price of other people"s progress. So what makes planners think that they have a
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Best kept sacred
Sacred groves are deteriorating at an alarming rate across the country. There is an urgent need to identify and protect these sacred woods to save nature in its pristine form.
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Crossing the rainbow
With the coming of the Rajiv Gandhi Mission on Watershed Development, a major change took place in the degraded wasteland that was Jhabua
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The spirit of water
Mahadapur goes green the 'group irrigation management' way
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Where you are is what you are
IN PRESENTING the two films - Thar: Secrets of the Desert and The Village Republic - Anil Agarwal defines the basic concept of the series as studies in the organic relationship between