Improved hearths

Book>> Cleaner Hearths, Better Homes: New Stoves For India And The Developing World • Douglas F Barnes, Priti Kumar, Keith Openshaw &…

Soiled schemes

ECO-AGRICULTURE: FOOD FIRST FARMING -- THEORY AND PRACTICE by Marthe Killey-Worthington Publisher: Souvenirmpress Ltd. Price: £16.99

Ecological solutions for cities

ENVIRONMENTAL PROBLEMS IN THIRD WORLD CITIES Jorge E Hardoy, Diana Mitlin and David Satterthwaite Publisher: Earthscan Publications Ltd Price: L11.95

G-7 links aid with environment

The World's richest nations reiterate environment is high on their policy agenda

North-South row over post-Rio panel's role

Even as the South continues to insist on Western nations fulfilling their Rio promise to increase aid, fund flows are decreasing.

A reluctant candidate for Chile's presidency

Meet Manfred Max-Neef. Pianist, economist, eco-humanist and politician from Chile, all rolled into one. Internationally acclaimed for his concept …

Amnesty portrays India's warts in detail

HUMAN RIGHTS IN INDIA -- THE UPDATED AMNESTY INTERNATIONAL REPORT Amnesty International . Publisher: Sage Publications, New Delhi . Price: Rs 135

National parks are luxury in Third World

KRISHNA B Ghimire, who is a project coordinator with the UN Research Institute for Social Development in Geneva, has done extensive research on …

New aspects to reporting Third World women

THE POWER TO CHANGE: WOMEN IN THE THIRD WORLD REDEFINE THEIR ENVIRONMENT Women's Feature Service . Publisher: Kali For Women, New Delhi . Price: …

UN gives MNCs a clean chit

A recent United Nations report absolves multinationals of the environmentalists' charge of shifting ecologically harmful industries to the South. …

Borrowed perspectives

When something as vast and complex as the social dynamics of the Green Revolution is depicted through the experiences of a handful, it is …

The vital statistics of Rio

Green Rio-toric

Will the European Green parties' long agenda to change the world's environment have any takers?

An impressionistic view of international debt

ODIOUS DEBTS: LOOSE LENDING, CORRUPTION AND THE THIRD WORLD'S ENVIRONMENTAL LEGACY Patricia Adams Publisher: Probe International Price: $13.95

Plant energy

A diseased world

Maternal mortality

UNITED NATIONS

Pawns in the game

Health of developing nations

Lethal Request

US grain millers seek exemption from ban on methyl bromide

Unfair price shop

Open markets to free trade, says the US. Yet it doles out sops to its farmers. Highly subsidised US produce floods global markets, bringing down …

Human Menace

UNITED NATIONS

Book review: Making amends?

"Demanding Accountability: Civil-Society Claims and the World Bank Inspection Panel" Edited by Dana Clark, Jonathan Fox and Kay Treakle Rainbow …