Rise of livestock

Agriculture sector undergoes a historic change as livestock surpasses the economy of food grain

Ban lifted

Livestock production causes global warming, strains land and water resources

Foul delight

Chicken laced with arsenic

World's consumption levels are breaking new records, says report

The consumption demands of more than seven billion people are exerting pressure on the planet's finite resources

Spoilt for choice

Are cheap food prices reason to cheer?

ARGENTINA

Peta's Pet

UK-based animal welfare group People for Ethical Treatment of Animals has been campaigning against Indian leather, alleging ill-treatment of …

Fatal fashion

Cashmere fetish causing extinctions in Central Asia

World’s coffee shops have emerged as plant milk’s front line

Milk made from plants is entering the public consciousness (and stomachs) in coffee shops across the globe.

The goat gamble

It has been a slow and steady shift over decades. Forced by declining returns from farming in ecologically fragile areas, small farmers have been …

In Short

Act before vicious cycle sets in

Without a grazing policy the goat economy can go bust

No Go

The South managed to make its presence felt, but this was due to the US-Europe rift

Being egged on

Drugged by chicken

Antibiotics in meat make disease-causing bacteria resistant to cures

Everybody's a Loser

The World Trade Organization's recent ministerial meet in Seattle, USA, will be remembered more for the protestors who turned the venue into a …

SUBSIDISED KILLING

They may survive the drought. But they cannot survive government policies. When people have to abandon their livestock, they are reduced to misery,…

Science and Technology - Briefs

Science and Technology - Briefs

Bytes

Science & Technology - Briefs

Fading colours

Natural dyes, now popular in the West, are yet to make it big in the Indian market, reports R V Singh (Read full article)

India cannot afford organic farming

S K SINHA national professor at the Water Technology Centre, Indian Agricultural Research Institute, New Delhi, spoke to Manish Tiwari on food …

A Sunrise industry

Natural dye business survives on exporters and the local carpet industry