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Forest-tenure reform ‘too slow’

A lack of progress in forest-tenure reform is hindering action to stop deforestation and alleviate poverty among some of the world's poorest rural peoples. The failure to ensure land rights for local communities-particularly indigenous peoples and women-in the forests of Central and West Africa will impede efforts to stop deforestation.

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Satisfying future water demands for agriculture

The global demand for water in agriculture will increase over time with increasing population, rising incomes, and changes in dietary preferences. Increasing demands for water by industrial and urban users, and water for the environment will intensify competition. At the same time, water scarcity is increasing in several important agricultural areas.

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41 BPL beneficiaries get auto-rickshaws

Chandigarh: Mayor Anu Chatrath and Municipal Commissioner Dr Roshan Sunkaria handed over LPG auto-rickshaws to 41 BPL beneficiaries at the Sukhna lake parking here today.

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Donors failing starving Yemenis: U.N. survey

Hugh Macleod

Millions of Yemenis are starving while the international community focuses on security issues and tackling Al Qaeda, according to the United Nations. Vital deliveries of food deliveries and assistance is being cut because of a near-total absence of funding.

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Food grains under PDS released for Kolar district

The Department of Food and Civil Supplies has released food grains to various categories of ration card holders for the month of March 2010.

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Panchayats should start work under NREGS

TIRUCHI: All village panchayats in the district should start the works sanctioned under the Mahatma Gandhi National Rural Employment Guarantee Scheme within a week, Collector T. Soundiah has said.

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NREGS system simplified

SHILLONG: Chief Minister DD Lapang on Monday said the government would streamline the implementation of the National Rural Employment Guarantee Scheme (NREGS) to benefit the poor.

After chairing the meeting of the Meghalaya State Employment Guarantee Council here on Monday, Lapang said the government would simplify the disbursement of wages under NREGS to the people.

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Digvijay accuses Mayawati Govt. of misusing funds

Congress general secretary Digvijay Singh with UPCC chief Rita Bahuguna Joshi and Promod Tiwari in Lucknow on Tuesday.

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Vision 2010: a dangerous myopia

Amiya Kumar Bagchi

The Central budget of 2010-11 is a further step in the realisation of a vision of India vibrant with the income, wealth, saving, education and the entrepreneurial energy of the top 5-10 per cent of the population and the rest of Indians, serving that minority and surviving as barely literate, malnourished multitude.

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Livestock rearing — key to poverty reduction strategies

Gavin Wall

From equity and livelihood perspectives, livestock rearing must be at the centre stage of poverty alleviation programmes.

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