Successful cooperatives compel Maharashtra government to hand over control of irrigation facilities to farmers
Trade truce
Can green mean free?
Public health over profits
Fair farming
The European Union buckles under the pressure of the developing countries to reduce agricultural subsidies
Suffering a stroke
Saddled with outdated technology, Kinetic Engineering has fallen far behind. To keep pace, the company needs more drive
Fulfilling labour
Parched water tanks in Kanyakumari come alive as locals undertake the revival programme
Water woes
Extreme events will adversely affect water resources
Shrouded in controversy
A mountaineering expedition into the Nanda Devi Biosphere Reserve revives the debate on ecotourism and people's rights over forests.
West By Far East
In the rush for economic growth, China ignored its environment. Now it faces a nightmare. The country is one ...
Cereal killer
By promotong rice over coarse grains, the government is promoting food scarcity and defeciency of micronutrients among India's ...
Rice: the real cost
It is said the future wars would be fought over the issue of water, not land. Yet Indian ...
Persistent in folly
Rice and wheat fetch a secure price and subsidies on farm inputs. Coarse grains have no place in the ...
Grain of truth
India's public distribution system promotes rice and wheat. These water-intensive crops require more inputs and are less nutritious as ...
Voices from Making Water Everybody's Business Talking about water
Water is bound to dominate the agenda of the country's politicians and planners in the future Though ...
Western tragedy
Eerie silence is all that is countering environmental pollution
Everybody's a Loser
The World Trade Organization's recent ministerial meet in Seattle, USA, will be remembered more for the protestors who turned ...
CAMPAIGN
Labour vs pollution
Ever since the Supreme Court (sc) ordered closure/relocation of polluting units in Delhi, which subsequently left ...
Greening the industry
The Centre for Science and Environment ( CSE) releases the environmental rating of the pulp and paper sector. ...
Beware flurosis is zeroing in on you
Water harvesting and conservation methods can turn the tide against the disease
Paperworks
Overall environment health of the pulp and paper industry is far from healthy Inefficiency in resource use plagues the ...
Gone with the wind
When the wind energy sector was opened to private investors in 1993, there was a virtual boom. However, after ...
Melting into thin air
The 25-km long Gangotri glacier, fountainhead of the Ganga, is receding at an average 18 metres annually
Needed: People's participation
Communities and state governments have to play a more important role
