Agriculture

Future Food: Peru - Old or New?

Behind an unmarked door in a Lima suburb, Javier Wong is planning a revolution in more than just stir-fry cooking. In fact the very future of food - and farming - is being re-imagined here in a city where nobody dined out 20 years ago, where there is no national tradition of gastronomy, and where there is considerable malnutrition. But in the capital of Peru, a city not so long ago wracked by Shining Path terrorist violence, the top chefs - men and women like Gaston Acurio, Javier Wong and Pedro Miguel Schiaffino - believe gastronomy can achieve social justice.

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Agriculture, Peru, Traditional Knowledge, Farmers, Potato, Nutrition, Food Security, Organic Farming

Analog forestry mimics a forest to create an economically productive and ecologically diverse landscape

In Sri Lanka, organic farmers draw inspiration from endemic practices such as home gardens or analog forestry, and have also adapted ‘imported’ ideas, such as zero-budget farming from India.

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Sri Lanka, Forests, Afforestation, South Asia, Farmers, India

Memorandum to PM regarding proposed 6000 MW Mithi Virdi Nuclear Power Plant

Farmers and other villagers affected by the proposed 6000 MW nuclear power plant at village Mithi Virdi in Bhavnagar, Gujarat took out a massive rally on 23 Sep 2013 and presented this memorandum addressed to the Prime Minister Dr. Manmohan Singh.

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Nuclear Power Plants, Bhavnagar (D), Gujarat, Conflicts, Farmers, Nuclear Accidents, Ministry Of Environment And Forests (MOEF)
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15 Sep 2012
Diesel price hike: no scope for roll back

Not raising diesel prices would harm economy much more'

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Farmers' electricity bills become power tool

MUMBAI: In an apparent play of votebank politics, the Congress-led Democratic Front government on Wednesday doled out generous sops to farmers in its 2011-12 budget in the form of loan waivers and subsidies.

Farmers across Maharashtra owe Rs 5,900 crore in electricity bills along with interest and late fees.

Publication Date: 
24/03/2011
Times Of India (Mumbai)
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Electricity, Agriculture, Farmers, Energy, Maharashtra
Land

Prospective power hub to eat up chunks of farmland

RAIPUR, 7 MARCH: Blame it on a flawed policy, India is set to shed about 40,000 acres of its prime double-crop agriculture land to dozens of upcoming power projects in a district that is billed having the country

Publication Date: 
08/03/2011
Statesman (New Delhi)
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Chhattisgarh, Irrigation, Raipur (D), Land Acquisition, Farmers, Energy, Power Industry, Agriculture, Janjgir-Champa
Energy

Clean Power to the People

Patient capital can help provide reliable and green electricity to the rural poor

Publication Date: 
28/02/2011
Economic Times (New Delhi)
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Electricity, Energy, Sugarcane, Farmers, Renewable Energy, Population, Diesel, Solar Energy
Land

Thermal project ready to compensate farmers

Publication Date: 
05/02/2011
Deccan Chronicle (Hyderabad)
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Compensation, Farmers, Andhra Pradesh, Urbanisation, Energy, Vishakhapatnam (D), Fisherfolk, Land Acquisition
Energy

Ensure farmers' power problem is addressed: Energy Dept

Bhopal: To solve the electricity problems of farmers, Energy Department has issued necessary directives to State's three electricity distribution companies to ensure responsibility of field officials to comply with the same.

After receiving complaints of registering false cases of electricity thefts against farmers, the State Government has said that competent officials will investigate matters

Publication Date: 
11/01/2011
Pioneer (New Delhi)
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Electricity, Farmers, Energy, Rural Energy, Bhopal (D), Madhya Pradesh

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