Urban-rural links to ensure food security, benefit rural producers
Weak link between smallholders and urban consumers is the main hurdle in improving food security in both rural and urban areas in developing …
Hypertension affects 1.13 billion people globally; 199 million reside in India
The burden of high blood pressure witnessed a dip in high and middle-income countries but low-income countries experienced a surge
How agriculture can be intensified in Africa without causing harm
Sustainable agriculture in Africa has the ability to act as an example for other regions worldwide. But to do this the approaches and technology …
A shot in the arm for abandoned vaccine trials
With HIV spreading fast in some Third World nations, these countries have decided to end months of uncertainity by opting for vaccine trials …
Beating about the bush
Many important issues were hardly touched upon at the recently concluded conference on bioresources
Smokescreen
The most powerful government in the world and the behemoth tobacco industry are waging a ding-dong battle over...well, cigarettes
TB threat as acute as AIDS
Infectious diseases are still the largest cause of death in the world and tuberculosis remains the leader.
Being accountable
The reluctance of financial institutions to be made answerable will stymie progress on implementing the Earth Summit agreentents.
Behavioural changes is the way to curb AIDS
Doctors and social workers advocate awareness as the best way to prevent AIDS, a disease that has no vaccine or cure, from spreading.
North - South tussle over SDC
The proposal for setting up a Commission for Sustainable Development, considered one of Rio's successes, is already caught in a dispute over size,…
AIDS increases TB death risk
People infected with the AIDS virus are more susceptible to tuberculosis, and this further reduces their chances of survival.
Energy analysis uncovers interesting trends
WORLD ENERGY: BUILDING A SUSTAINABLE FUTURE Lee Schipper et al Publisher: Stockholm Environment Institute Price: Not stated
Technology and the public sector
FOREIGN TECHNOLOGY IN PUBLIC ENTERPRISES Sunil Mani Publisher : Oxford & IBH Publishing Co Pvt Ltd, Delhi Price : Rs 250
Rio has not changed the North-South equation
The UNCED deliberations have to be viewed in the context of northern attempts to maintain hegemony over the rest of the world
Did Riocentro learn anything from Flamengo park?
While heads of state deliberated on the future of the world at the Riocentro, social activists and NGOs expressed their sense of frustration …
Forests of global contention
The South's determined efforts to scuttle the forest convention that the North was adamant on pushing through was a major triumph. A blow-by-…
McNamara shoots from the hip
Today's neo-Malthusians have acquired a fashionable new fig leaf: environmentalism. And Robert McNamara's recent talk in Delhi was an eloquent …
Passing USA's laugh test
Helping George Bush gain political mileage seemed to be the overriding concern at the recent climate convention negotiations in New York. India …
Developmental dilemmas
TECHNOLOGICAL CHANGE AND RURAL DEVELOPMENT IN POOR COUNTRIES - NEGLECTED ISSUES Edited by Kartik C Roy and Cal Clark Oxford University Press Rs 290
Sustainability and the southern perspective
European environmentalists tackle Third World concerns of irresponsible overconsumption by northern countries
Banking disasters
A one-stop shopping facility at the World Bank for private corporations to meet their project financing and insurance needs in developing …
Green illusios
Germany is swamped in a controversy about a study which says sustainable development can be achieved only when the consumption of resources is …
Pressure on the South
The Kyoto Protocol could save the industralised North from taking action to reduce its own emissions. A cheaper and easier option is available to …
A humble beginning
Developing nations should get more actively involved with international politics on climate change. They should propose and direct negotiations, …
Developing burden
A research paper brings out the dangers of increasing use of private capital in the developing countries