Agriculture

 Crowded out

Human threat to biodiversity

Publication Date: 
14/03/2004
Suchitra M
Down to Earth
Tags:
Endangered Species, Flora, Fauna, Biodiversity, Kerala
India

 Sand beds to people

The Kerala government has taken another decentralising step. It has handed over exclusive rights of mining and sale of sand from riverbeds to local bodies. The state's minister for revenue, K M Mani,

Publication Date: 
14/01/2004
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Mining, India, Kerala, Corruption
Industry

 Kerala panchayat wins face off with Coke

Two recent directives of the Kerala High Court have further vindicated the Perumatty Grama Panchayat s stand in its face off with the Hindustan Coca Cola Beverages Private Limited

Publication Date: 
14/01/2004
E Vijayalakshmi
Down to Earth
Tags:
Soft Drinks, Coca Cola, Groundwater, Industry, Legislation, High Court, Panchayats, Kerala
India

 A profane proposal

10 years ago, Down To Earth reported on the state of sacred groves in India see: Down To Earth, January 31, 1994 . Patches of forest protected

Publication Date: 
30/12/2003
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Ecology, Khasi Hills, Shifting Cultivation, Forest Conservation, Watershed Development, Economy, Sacred Groves, India, Kodagu, Kerala, Meghalaya, Endangered Species
Industry

 Cola major gets a taste of panchayat power

A multi billion dollar transnational corporation has had to blink first in an eyeball to eyeball dispute with an obscure panchayat of Kerala. On November 17, Hindustan Coca Cola Beverages Private Limited HCBPL the Goliath of the piece was compelled

Publication Date: 
14/12/2003
E Vijayalakshmi
Down to Earth
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Groundwater Pollution, Water Quality, Industry, Legislation, High Court, Governance, Panchayats, Kerala
Industry

 On a strong wicket

Perumatty panchayat s case is statutorily sound

Publication Date: 
14/12/2003
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Groundwater Pollution, Water Quality, Industry, Legislation, High Court, Governance, Panchayats, Kerala
Industry

 Troubled island

Unchecked pollution in Eloor has lead to high disease incidences

Publication Date: 
14/10/2003
Sreedevi Jacob
Down to Earth
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Tags:
Islands, Health Effects, Cancer, Endangered Species, Mental Health, Occupational Health, Industry, NGO, Greenpeace, Kerala
Forests

 Promised land

Kerala CM upbeat about forestland for tribals scheme

Publication Date: 
14/06/2003
Down to Earth
Tags:
Forests, Forest Act 1980, Tribals, Kerala
Fisheries

 Farming fish and mussels

When bad management and increasing demand for inland fish led to plummeting stocks, fishing villages around the Ashtamudi estuary in Kollam district, Kerala, have come up with their own solution. Fisherfolk, now earmark a certain area of the estuary to al

Publication Date: 
30/03/2003
M P Basheer
Down to Earth
Tags:
Fisheries, Reservoir Fisheries, Fishing Technology, Fisherfolk, Panchayats, India, Kerala
Industry

 Kerala woes industry

the two-day Global Investors Meet (gim) in Kochi on January 18 has sparked the development debate afresh in Kerala. gim was the first ever attempt by the state government to attract investors from

Publication Date: 
27/02/2003
Surendranath C
Down to Earth
Tags:
Ecotourism, Mining, Trade, Industry, Kerala

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