Handy copper cure

A non-governmental organisation uses the metal to purify water

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Stand up for your rights

Handloom is haute

The fruits of water

Orchards in Vansda transform distant dream into reality as people unite to store and use the water that would usually run off

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.

Realising the virtues of organic farming

Several organisations, at home and abroad, are promoting organic farming as a method of food production that is both ecologically and socially …

Debt-burdened Indonesia bows to World Bank

Large foreign debts have forced Indonesia to give in to World Bank pressure and adopt structural economic changes.

Building self-reliance in children of the street

Butterflies, a non-government organisation, is helping street children to organise themselves and operate a restaurant in the Capital's main bus …

Commission of omissions

After prolonged negotiations, what the Rio summit has produced is a weak and poorly represented commission on sustainable development

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 …

Stockholm and Rio: Bigger, but was it better?

Stockholm wasn't as big as Rio, but I think it had a soul. I expect Rio's soul was there too, somewhere

NGOs left holding the baby

The state is slowly withdrawing from the welfare sector leaving voluntary organisations in a quandary

The ground for grassroots technology

A Delhi-based agency has improved the standard of living of a Himachal Pradesh village by providing it simple devices at subsidised rates

Foliage fever

Galvanising support for the unconditional withdrawal of the new Forest Bill, NGOs and a fifth column within the bureaucracy are harrowing the …

All bark, all bite

Local communities in Nepal and some Central American nations have become invaluable participants in managing their forests

Livestock largesse

Farmers and livestock owners are herding in a fortune as the animal sciences go into overdrive and squeeze out maximum yields

Sour gripes

Non-governmental organisations face the wrath of the government for exposing the loopholes in its wildlife policy

Fuelling the movement

BIOGAS: THE INDIAN NGO EXPERIENCE·Soma Dutta, Ibrahim H Rehman, Preeti Malhotra and Venkata Ramana P·Tata Energy Research Institute,…

An abduction foretold

Threatened by avard-ne's rising popularity among the people in Majuli, ulfa saw itself losing credibility rapidly. Tried and tested tactics …

A silent white revolution

Women living in a non-descript village in Gujarat revive a defunct dairy, earlier run by men. Today, not only do they churn out 100 per cent …

Pak NGOs under fire

While right-wing religious groups in Pakistan indulge in a hate campaign against voluntary organisations, the military regime looks the other way

Desperately seeking experts

The environmental situation in India is grave -- our natural resources are getting depleted at an alarming rate and there is an acute paucity of …

Controversial bill

Double standards of the world's green helmets