FAO

Between Latin America, Middle East and Asia, there are 20,000 tonnes of pesticide poisons waiting to be treated. But the United Nations Food and Agricultural Organization (fao), which helps clear-up

Publication Date:

14/10/2004

Source: Down to Earth

Vol:

13

Issue:

20041015

pp:

0

Tags:

Pesticides, Technology, UN, FAO

India

Sugar debate

Spiced by developing bloc

Publication Date:

14/03/2004

Source: Down to Earth

Vol:

12

Issue:

20040315

pp:

0

Tags:

Obesity, FAO, WHO, India, Developing Countries

India

In Short

RESOURCES AND RIGHTS: Even as the debate over access and benefit sharing of genetic resources rages on in the world, plans for a legally binding protocol have begun to take shape in the Convention

Publication Date:

14/05/2003

Source: Down to Earth

Vol:

11

Issue:

20030515

pp:

0

Tags:

Convention On Biological Diversity (CBD), River Pollution, Industrial Dispersal, Animal Diseases, Yamuna, Drinking Water, Central Pollution Control Board (CPCB), Rail Transport, Traditional Knowledge, Economic Development, FAO, World Bank, Pakistan, European Union (EU)

Climate Change

Ministries play the blame game

JAGDISH BAHADUR, an expert on glaciers and former joint advisor, department of science and technology, and SYED IQBAL HASNAIN , who heads the Glacier Research Group at Jawaharlal Nehru University, criticise India s lack of a positive response to a rece

Publication Date:

29/06/2002

Source: Down to Earth

Vol:

11

Issue:

20020630

pp:

0

Tags:

Himalaya, Glaciers, Global Warming, Science, Technology, FAO, UNEP, UNESCO, Bhutan, China, Nepal, Himachal Pradesh

Forests

Unproductive augmentation

Despite environmental pressure against the use of chemical fertilisers, the deadly substances continue to be used unabated across the globe. At the end of the 20th century an average of 91 kgs of

Publication Date:

Thursday, March 14, 2002

Source: Down to Earth

Vol:

Issue:

pp:

Tags:

Croplands, Chemical Fertilisers, FAO, Rwanda, Mongolia, Global

Industry