Good Food is First Food. It is not junk food. It is the food that connects nature and nutrition with livelihoods. This food is good for our health; it comes from the rich biodiversity of our regions; it provides employment to people. Most importantly, cooking and eating give us pleasure. …
the human immunodeficiency virus (hiv) that causes aids is attenuating (getting weaker), claim scientists at the Institute of Tropical Medicine in Antwerp, Belgium. They say their study suggests if the attenuation observed in hiv-1 continues, aids may not remain life-threatening 50-100 years from now. Attenuation is a survival tactic used …
It is not just China’s economy that is growing phenomenally. An aggressive afforestation policy, put in place in 2000, has seen large tracts being covered by trees every year. But afforestation efforts are no match for China’s growing demand for wood
fruits distributed to schoolchildren by the uk's department of health (under its five-a-day programme) contain over 25 per cent more pesticide residues than those on sale in shops. These are the findings of the uk -based Soil Association (sa), which represents organic producers. The government's pesticide residue committee (prc), however, …
The Somasila and Kandaleru dams, that form part of the Krishna water supply system, will store much more water in the current water year (June 2005-May 2006). The Somasila dam will hold 52 thousand million cubic feet (tmcft) and Kandaleru 25 tmcft. Both are located in Nellore district. The increase …
For more than a decade, a chain of evidence has accumulated that demonstrates that thousands of people living around the now-abandoned Union Carbide factory site in Bhopal, India, are suffering direct exposure to toxic substances from their water supplies. A number of the contaminants, described by a range of studies, …
A new report of the uk's forestry research programme (frp) has stirred a hornet's nest. Called From the mountain to the tap , the report uses evidence from 12 countries to incriminate trees and forests for water shortages. Large scale afforestation and big irrigation schemes result in land use changes, …
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sri lanka is to export some 12,000 tea plants to Iran under a bilateral agreement, an issue that has raised the ire of environmentalists who say the move will jeopardise the country's tea trade. Sri Lanka is the world's biggest tea auction and trading centre and tea is the country's …
This article looks at the emerging policy context on irrigation and drinking water supply in Jharkhand, the position of water rights in state legislation, the importance of water user groups, the critical issues of access to water for both the rural and the urban poor and the legal implications.
A leaked internal audit has revealed the World Bank's stark negligence in its involvement with a notoriously controversial new gold mine in Guatemala. The confidential draft report by the Compliance Advisor Ombudsman (cao), an internal watchdog at the International Finance Corporation (ifc)
the latest groundwater report of Karnataka, brought out by the Department of Mines and Geology (dmg) , shows that entire Bangalore is an overexploited zone. The 2004 study puts 55 taluka s in the overexploited category. The situation is worst in Kolar and Tumkur, apart from Bangalore's rural and urban …
Did Nepali Maoist rebels make (Indian) Rs 3.15 crore last year from the trade in medicinal herb Yar Tsa Gumba (Cordyceps sinensis) in Dolpo, a mountain region in Nepal's Midwest? Yes, say local sources, quoting the figure. The government doesn't know the exact amount of profit, but it has concluded …
On August 22, 2005, participants from more than 100 countries gathered at the Swedish capital, Stockholm, to deliberate development of water resource infrastructure, water supply and sanitation, and pollution management. The occasion: the Stockholm Water Week. Organised by the Stockholm International Water Institute (siwi) since 1991, this annual event has …
Stockholm Water Prize: CSE director Sunita Narain, received the coveted prize from King Carl XVI Gustaf of Sweden for CSE's contribution to build a water-literate and a water-prudent society. Junior Water Prize: Pontso Moletsane, Motobele Motshodi and Sechaba Ramabenyane, South African students, received the prize for developing an instrument to …
after rains, it is pouring committees, commissions and fact-finding teams in Mumbai: the Mithi River Development and Protection Agency, an eight member fact-finding team; a team lead by Pune-based Central Water and Power Research Station (cwprs), another three member fact-finding committee; the Maharashtra Disaster Management Authority. These committees have almost …
The distribution trends of trace elements over North and South Krishna delta were examined in relation to fresh-, brackish- and saline-water zonations. Strontium and boron have shown significant variations in fresh-, brackish- and saline-water environment. Strontium has shown a variation from 23 to 1500 mg/l in freshwater, 1650 to 2760 …
Providing reliable access to safe drinking water in Adivasi dominated villages in the least developed states of India raises a range of questions. Whose responsibility, obligation and duty is it? These questions are intrinsically linked to drinking water management and contingent to the complexity of our societal commitments. Experience has …
the National Environmental Policy Act, 1969 was the legislative basis for environment impact assessment (eia) in the us. That country realised, in the 1960s, that major environmental problems could also be created by what government did. This legislation required that all federal agencies would consider the consequences of their actions. …
