Africa

In Court

common concern: A Montana jury ordered ChevronTexaco Corporation to pay us $40.3 million for environmental damage from a gasoline pipeline leak in 1955.

Publication Date:

29/09/2004

Source: Down to Earth

Vol:

13

Issue:

20040930

pp:

0

Tags:

Environment Impact Assessment (EIA), Mining, Compensation, Occupational Health, Silicosis, Gas Leakages, Legislation, Africa

Agriculture

Killing fields

AIDS threatens subsistence agriculture in Africa

Publication Date:

29/09/2004

Source: Down to Earth

Tags:

Agriculture, Traditional Knowledge, AIDS, Africa

India

Hectic parleys

The G 20 bloc of nations faces new challenges

Publication Date:

14/08/2004

Author(s): Clifford Polycarp

Source: Down to Earth

Vol:

13

Issue:

20040815

pp:

0

Tags:

Agriculture, Africa, Mexico, Argentina, Brazil, India, European Union (EU)

Agriculture

Pest alert

Swarms of locusts in North Africa could be on the verge of threatening crops further south. If a plague were to break out, maize, sorghum, millet and wheat worth us $2 billion could be destroyed.

Publication Date:

29/06/2004

Source: Down to Earth

Vol:

13

Issue:

20040630

pp:

0

Tags:

Agriculture, Insects, Africa

Sanitation

Another opportunity lost

This year’s UN Commission on Sustainable Development meet provided no roadmap to attain Millennium Development Goals on water, sanitation and human settlements

Publication Date:

30/05/2004

Author(s): Nidhi Jamwal

Source: Down to Earth

Tags:

Ecosystems, Drinking Water, Slums, Sanitation, UN, Africa, Sustainable Development, Statistics, UN Commission on Sustainable Development (UNCSD)

Agriculture

Effective water management by a Kenyan farmer

In Kenya, where sixty per cent of all agriculturists are small farmers with less than 5 hectares ha of land, Peter Saku is an interesting case. A marginal farmer of Kifurusha village in Kenya s Machakos district, he grows 11 different kinds of produce o

Publication Date:

14/12/2003

Author(s): Eklavya Prasad

Source: Down to Earth

Tags:

Agriculture, Water Management, Water Conservation, Water Harvesting, Africa, Kenya

Fisheries

Bytes

marine boom: An unprecedented census of marine life is reporting three new fish species a week on an average. In the first interim report of the census, an international team of scientists predicts

Publication Date:

29/11/2003

Source: Down to Earth

Vol:

12

Issue:

20031130

pp:

0

Tags:

Marine Life, Fisheries, Health, Radiation, Genetic Engineering, Research, Fossils, Africa, China

Industry

In the snakepit

How negotiations on issues moved, or didn’t

Publication Date:

14/10/2003

Source: Down to Earth

Vol:

12

Issue:

20031015

pp:

0

Tags:

Agriculture, Cotton, Trade, WTO, Economy, Health Care, Subsidies, Exports, Imports, Industry, Trade Unions, Africa, Singapore, Mexico, United States Of America (US), Uruguay, European Union (EU)

Industry

Beyond failure

What of the Doha round? What of the WTO itself?

Publication Date:

14/10/2003

Source: Down to Earth

Vol:

12

Issue:

20031015

pp:

0

Tags:

Agriculture, Cotton, Trade, WTO, Economy, Health Care, Subsidies, Exports, Imports, Industry, Trade Unions, Africa, Singapore, Mexico, United States Of America (US), Uruguay, European Union (EU)

Wildlife

Game for privatisation?

Will African wild land be colonised again? Moves by Dutch tycoon Paul van Vlissingen to buy some national parks of Zambia, Malawi, Uganda, Kenya and Mozambique have split the continent's polity down

Publication Date:

14/09/2003

Source: Down to Earth

Tags:

Wildlife, National Parks, NGO, WWF, Africa, Kenya, Malawi, Uganda, Zambia