Industry

 Matter of interpretation

15 hectares of utter confusion

Publication Date: 
29/04/2006
Ruksan Bose
Down to Earth
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Environment, Land Resources, Land Ownership, Land Reforms, Public Interest Litigation (PIL), Conflicts, Industry, Maruti Udyog, Legislation, Governance, Chhattisgarh, Forests
Mining

 In short

SC clears mill land sale: The Supreme Court (SC) has cleared the sale of mill land in Mumbai, setting aside an earlier Bombay High court order. The SC has upheld the Maharashtra government's

Publication Date: 
30/03/2006
Down to Earth
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Land Resources, Mining, Glaciers, Health Care, Obesity, Genetic Resources, Legislation, Supreme Court, High Court, New Zealand, Mumbai
India

 The new Money plant

The seeds of a plant called jatropha yield oil that, after processing, makes biodiesel. It can reduce India s burgeoning oil import bill. And there s lots of money to be made. But who will earn? What land will be used for this? down t

Publication Date: 
29/11/2005
Down to Earth
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Land Resources, Wastelands, Agriculture, Oilseeds, Irrigation, Trees, Biodiesel, Petrol, Farmers, Electricity, Imports, Private Sector, Biotechnology, NGO, India, Tamil Nadu, Statistics
Agriculture

 Rot setting in

The Zimbabwean government intends to nationalise all farmland

Publication Date: 
14/07/2004
Down to Earth
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Land Resources, Agriculture, Human Rights, Zimbabwe
India

 Dumping nuclear burden

Australia s move to return to aborigines land located on former nuclear test site draws flak

Publication Date: 
30/07/2002
Nitin Sethi
Down to Earth
Tags:
Land Resources, Land Degradation, Health Effects, Tribals, Child Health, Nuclear Research, Governance, Australia, Toxins
Wildlife

 Cause for concern

Extract from the Draft Inhalation Dose Assessment for Remediated Land at Maralinga

Publication Date: 
30/07/2002
Down to Earth
Tags:
Land Resources, Land Degradation, Health Effects, Tribals, Child Health, Nuclear Research, Governance, Toxins
Forests

 Mighty clash

a clash between the us and the European Union (eu) over the rules for cutting greenhouse gas emissions, as agreed in the Kyoto Protocol in 1997, seems to be inevitable. The us

Publication Date: 
14/09/2000
Down to Earth
Tags:
Environment Politics, Forests, Land Resources, Carbon Dioxide, Global Warming, Kyoto Protocol, European Union (EU)
Agriculture

 Moving in circles

Issues on sustainable development were discussed at a recently concluded CSD meet

Publication Date: 
14/06/2000
Down to Earth
Tags:
Land Resources, Agriculture, Forest Conservation, Public Participation, NGO, Sustainable Development, UN Commission on Sustainable Development (UNCSD)
Poverty

 The land rush

DEVELOPMENT discourse in the post-World War II era centred on social and economic inequality. Rural poverty was linked directly to iniquitous land ownership and it was felt public policy had to take

Publication Date: 
14/01/1994
Pranab Mukhopadhyaya
Down to Earth
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Tags:
Land Resources, Land Encroachments, Deforestation, Migration, Poverty
Agriculture

 From Ram rajya to scientific farming

AFTER a decade of academic exercises, Indian planners have decided to incorporate the concept of agroclimatic regional planning in the Eighth Five-Year plan to ensure sustainable crop yields and

Publication Date: 
29/06/1992
Anumita Roychowdhury
Down to Earth
Tags:
Land Resources, Agriculture, Water Management, Sustainable Development

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