Agriculture

 Corporate farming

Pakistan s proposal to allow multinationals into its agriculture sector may be bad news for the environment

Publication Date: 
29/09/2000
Muddassir Rizvi
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Agriculture, Farmers, Multinational Corporations (MNCs), Politics, Pakistan
Agriculture

 Farmers can only teach traditional knowledge

P S Ramakrishnan , former director of G B Pant University in Nainital, Uttar Pradesh and currently professor at the School of Environmental Sciences in Jawaharlal Nehru University, New Delhi, spoke to

Publication Date: 
30/08/2000
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Agriculture, Shifting Cultivation, Farmers, Traditional Knowledge, Research, Public Participation, Governance, Community Groups, Sustainable Development
India

 Monument to hunger

The 1784 famine of Lucknow region and a nawab s philanthropic gesture gave us a magnificent monument

Publication Date: 
14/08/2000
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Monuments, Starvation, Drought, Farmers, History, Lucknow (D)
India

 Bill Or Bull?

Why is India pushing for the enactment of a bill that does not protect agriculture?

Publication Date: 
14/08/2000
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Environment, Farmers, Traditional Knowledge, Biodiversity, Benefit Sharing, Legislation, Politics, India, Sustainable Development
India

 Banking on labour

It is a labour bank called Thozhil Sena . Its capital is human labour and the clients are mostly farmers who loan labour at a rate of interest. Perhaps the first of its kind in India, the

Publication Date: 
14/07/2000
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Farmers, Rural Development, Political Decentralisation, Services, Kerala
India

 Saving the farmers

in a bid to "protect the farmers' crops', the Digvijay Singh Cabinet has decided to give permission for the hunting and killing of neelgai (blue bulls) in some parts of Madhya Pradesh.

Publication Date: 
29/06/2000
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Farmers, Antelope, Madhya Pradesh, Animal Menace
India

 UNITED NATIONS

The United Nations Food and Agriculture Organi

Publication Date: 
14/04/2000
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Floods, Farmers, UN, FAO, Mozambique
India

 Compensation demand

the general manager, deputy general manager and chief executive of Indian Oil Corporation ( ioc ) have been served notices by seven farmers of Mota Thavaria village near Jamnagar in Gujarat.

Publication Date: 
14/02/2000
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Farmers, Compensation, Gujarat, Indian Oil Corporation (IOC)
Water Resources

 War over water

Mismanaging water can create a crisis and lead to panic. This is exactly what led to a water riot near Jamnagar in Gujarat

Publication Date: 
30/01/2000
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Water Management, Water Harvesting, Urban Water Supply, Drinking Water Scarcity, Dams, Irrigation, Farmers, Gujarat
Industry

 BRAZIL

Government inspectors in Brazil are burning fields and seizing sacks of bio-engineered soybean seeds. Brazil is yet to approve the cultivation of these beans and has thus emerged as the world's

Publication Date: 
30/01/2000
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Farmers, Biotechnology, Genetic Engineering, Brazil

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