Natural pesticides

Bt microbe needs a little help from friends

Biocontrolling congress grass

Pollinator security

To kill a mocking pest

With pesticides no longer a viable means of controlling pests in most cases, the search for alternatives like bio-pesticides has proved that …

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The benefits of organic farming far outweigh the costs

HAY SOREE , economist and director of Yardi and Sore, a New Delhi-based company involved in organic farming and marketing, spoke to Down To …

Breeding insects to eat crop pests

Plant-based pesticide pious resolve, little action

Nature's own pest controller

A venomous Australian spider provides clues on how to make safer pesticides

Bt fails in China

Muscled out?

Double trouble

A deadly moth and a fly create havoc

Research on a Green Muscle, a mushroom, to wipe out locusts

No pesticides no debts

Quality of Research: Only a fig leaf

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Solution

Awardee 2001

Green Scientist Award

Deconstructing science

Nature uses lean sources to get work done. The environmental crises we face today are a result of ignoring this simple paradigm for two centuries.…

Peanuts for ecology

India spends very little on Science for Ecological Security. And then spends it poorly

Training villagers in organic farming

Despite the general reluctance of farmers to adopt organic farming, one village in Tamil Nadu is using these techniques successfully.

Complementarity begets productivity

ORGANIC farming technologies involve adaptation to local environments. Continuing the series on organic farming (See Down To Earth, November 30, …

High yields in Andhra's pesticide-free village