At death's door

Around three million people are estimated to be severely food-insecure in north-eastern Nigeria, South Sudan and Somalia. The writer looks at the …

Fast food chains progress on antibiotic policy, but action fragmented

The policies remain fragmented with focus limited to certain food animal species or markets

Sanitary insights

January 2, 2017, is the 15th death anniversary of Anil Agarwal, founder of the Centre for Science and Environment and Down To Earth. This year, …

Asian, African cities rank low on water sustainability

Poor quality of water and inability to withstand natural disasters are affecting sustainability index of cities

A slum's daily struggle with water

A 17-year-old boy, a resident of Jagdamba Camp in South Delhi's Malviya Nagar captures how his community deals with the lack or excess of water. …

The net is cast on agriculture

Aquaculture on the rise

Book One Valley and A Thousand Dams, Nationalism and Development

Book>> Daniel Klingensmith, 'One Valley and a Thousand' Dams, Nationalism and Development Oxford University Press New Delhi 2007

Local smorgasbord

Book>> The food of a younger land: A Portrait of American food from the lost WPA files • by Mark Kurlansky • Riverhead books •…

Food as carrot

In a world where corporate gains feed on hunger and poverty, could food be a human right?

Perpetual Thirst

It has been 45 years since the first national water supply programme. This and many thousand crore of rupees later, more than half of India's …

Common sense delivers

Murli Mohan Sharma opted out.

Letters

Urban renewal: more talk, less infrastructure

The flush, the city and the river

For the modern Indian city, the principle behind management of water and waste is a simple one: flush and forget. Not surprisingly, most cities …

Getting a city into shape

साफ-सफाई के अभाव में 200 करोड़ लोगों पर मंडरा रहा है कोरोनावायरस का खतरा

भारत में भी 5 करोड़ से ज्यादा लोगों के पास नहीं है हाथ धोने के पर्याप्त साधन

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पहले वर्ल्ड एग्रीकल्चर प्राइज से सम्मानित एमएस स्वामीनाथन हरित क्रांति के बीजाराेपण की कहानी बता रहे हैं

पानी का अधिकार देने के लिए 1000 करोड़ खर्च करेगी मध्य प्रदेश सरकार

मध्य प्रदेश देश का पहला ऐसा राज्य बनने जा रहा है, जो अपने नागरिकों को पानी का अधिकार देगा। आइए, जानते हैं इसके फायदे-नुकसान ...

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मध्यप्रदेश का एक गांव मिसाल बन गया है कि कैसे डेढ़ दो दशक पहले किए गए कार्यों का फल बाद में मिलता है 

Powerless firms

The crippling discom business needs fundamental restructuring for a future in renewable energy

Implement Food Security Act properly, demand activists protesting hunger deaths

They claim that most of the 45 people, who died of hunger in the country in the past one year, were denied food on failing Aadhaar identification

'BRICS countries in a position to shape agricultural policies'

Most of the world’s 795 million undernourished people live in developing countries. These countries will need to increase their food …

Now, Hyderabad joins list of places suffering from severe water crisis

There is a gap of 47 per cent between demand and supply of water in the city

Crash in maize production may hit over a million people in Zimbabwe

The entire sub-Saharan African region will be hit hard as maize is the most important cereal crop in here

Madhya Pradesh's high-tech solution for PDS

State links PDS to UID to plug leakages in food supplies but gaps remain