Industry

 Lost people

State represses, doesn t enable; creates poverty from riches

Publication Date: 
14/10/2006
Down to Earth
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North East, Barak, Imphal, Dams, Riverine Ecology, Hydroelectricity, Flood Control, Conflicts, India, Assam, Manipur, Mizoram
India

 Amongst those who count the dead in Manipur

Four environmental activists sit with me in room 122 of Hotel Imphal. "How can we get information from the state?' one asks. Do they expect an answer because I work for a Delhi-based environmental

Publication Date: 
29/09/2006
Nitin Sethi
Down to Earth
Tags:
North East, Conflicts, Information, Right To Information (RTI), India, Manipur
Forests

 Former militant Bijoy Hrankhal on Tripura's tribal needs

Bijoy Kumar Hrankhal was the founder member and vice president of the Tripura National Volunteer, the first militant group in Tripura. He laid down arms in 1989, after a treaty with late prime minister Rajiv Gandhi. The treaty

Publication Date: 
14/09/2006
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Forests, North East, Displacement, Tribals, Conflicts, Rehabilitation, Economic Development, Poverty, Peace, India, Tripura, Corruption
Environment

 Sponge iron industries are killing fields

The sponge iron industry is growing fast and polluting alarmingly. K Radhika in Chhattisgarh and Maureen Nandini Mitra in Jharkhand and Orissa examine the problem

Publication Date: 
14/09/2006
Down to Earth
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Environment, Air Pollution, Land Resources, Mining, Mineral-Based Industry, Iron And Steel Industry, Health Effects, Economy, Tribals, Conflicts, Poverty, Gram Sabhas, Chhattisgarh, Jharkhand, Orissa (Odisha), Statistics, Pollution
Industry

 Fissures in West Bengal's Left government over land acquisition

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Publication Date: 
30/08/2006
Maureen Nandini Mitra
Down to Earth
Tags:
Land Ownership, Agriculture, Hoogly, Singur, Displacement, Farmers, Landless, Conflicts, Rehabilitation, Compensation, Economic Development, Industry, Auto Industry, Political Parties, West Bengal, Statistics, Food Security
Environment

 Rift within West Bengal's Left government over land acquisition

West Bengal proposes land acquisition, ruling Front riven

Publication Date: 
14/07/2006
Maureen Nandini Mitra
Down to Earth
Tags:
Industrial Siting, Land Use, Displacement, Farmers, Conflicts, West Bengal
Environment

 Tanzanian government evicts pastoralists

The Tanzanian government recently began evicting pastoralists from the Ihefu basin in the country's Mbeya city claiming they were causing environmental degradation. Ihefu, a catchment basin of

Publication Date: 
29/06/2006
Down to Earth
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Tags:
Wetlands, Displacement, Pastoral Nomads, Conflicts, Protected Area Conservation, Tanzania
Industry

 Spectrum wars

Mobile service providers battle over additional bandwidth

Publication Date: 
30/05/2006
Padmaparna Ghosh
Down to Earth
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Tags:
Conflicts, Technology, Telecommunication

Conflict, food insecurity, and globalization

The researchers explore how globalization, broadly conceived to include international human rights norms, humanitarianism, and alternative trade, might influence peaceful and food secure outlooks and outcomes.

Publication Date: 
01/05/2006
Ellen Messer, Marc. J. Cohen
International Food Policy Research Institute
Tags:
Conflicts, Food Security, Globalisation, Trade, Exports, War, Human Rights, Poverty, Food Prices
India

 Monsanto marked

A group of Texan cotton farmers has sued Monsanto and two affiliated companies for massive crop losses. The farmers claimed the companies failed to warn them of a defect in their genetically altered

Publication Date: 
30/03/2006
Down to Earth
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Tags:
Cotton, Farmers, Conflicts, Genetic Resources, United States Of America (US)

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