India

 Breathing easy

A hundred medicines, a dozen therapies but no cure, that is the story of asthma treatment world wide. Complementary medicine fill the vacuum

Publication Date: 
14/01/2002
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Pollution Control, Air Pollution, Malnutrition, Asthma, Respiratory Diseases, Children, Health Care, Medical Research, Child Health, Smoking, Genetic Resources, Africa, Mexico, New Zealand, India, Delhi
India

 Gasping millions

Asthma, the bane of modern life, stalks the young ones and the affluent. It will strike 32 million people in India by 2010. The silent strangler has a propensity to waylay its victims, striking with stealth. An analysis into what triggers the killer which

Publication Date: 
14/01/2002
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Pollution Control, Air Pollution, Malnutrition, Asthma, Respiratory Diseases, Children, Health Care, Medical Research, Child Health, Smoking, Genetic Resources, Africa, Mexico, New Zealand, India, Delhi
Climate Change

Climate change and agricultural vulnerability

The methodology and results reported in this study form a first comprehensive and integrated global ecological

Publication Date: 
01/01/2002
Gunther Fischer, Mahendra Shah, Harrij van Velthuizen
International Institute for Applied Systems Analysis
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Forests, Land Use, Agriculture, Dryland Farming, Multicrop Systems, Legumes, Food Supply, Malnutrition, Climate Change, Green House Gases, Trade, Climate Impacts, Consumption Patterns, Statistics, Food Security
Fisheries

 NORTH KOREA

North Koreans are dying at a rate that is more than 40 per cent higher than in 1994 when a series of devastating floods and famines hit the country, said Gro Harlem Brundt

Publication Date: 
30/12/2001
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Malnutrition, Starvation, Population Trends, North Korea
India

 On a weak limb

The lack of health infrastructure and malnutrition in India's rural regions has left the people vulnerable to a number of health problems. Children are the worst affected with life expectancy levels

Publication Date: 
Sunday, October 14, 2001
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Malnutrition, Health Effects, Children, Child Health, Rural Development, India
Health

  Hungry for research

Child starvation could increase unless research is improved

Publication Date: 
29/09/2001
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Agricultural Research, Food Policy, Malnutrition, Starvation, Health, Children, World Bank, Africa, Asia, China, Global, Developing Countries, Food Security
India

 Solving poverty

Gurdev S Khush is the principal plant breeder in the Plant breeding, genetics and biochemistry division of the International Rice Research Institute IRRI in the Philippines. His contribution to the global food security has e

Publication Date: 
29/09/2001
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Plant Breeding, Rice, Malnutrition, Health Effects, Poverty, Biotechnology, Genetic Engineering, Philippines, India, Developing Countries, Food Security
Sanitation

 New diseases are the result of environmental degradation

After being instrumental in the eradication of smallpox, D A Henderson , director, Centre for Civilian Biodefence, Johns Hopkins University, USA, finds that changes in the environment are leading to mutations in viruses makin

Publication Date: 
30/05/2001
A Asha
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Environment, Sanitation, Drugs, Epidemics, Infectious Diseases, Small Pox, Influenza, China, United States Of America (US), Diseases, Malnutrition
India

 Cereal killer

By promotong rice over coarse grains, the government is promoting food scarcity and defeciency of micronutrients among India’s most malnourished sections

Publication Date: 
14/05/2001
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Deccan Plateau, Dryland Farming, Food Crops, Rice, Wheat, Food Supply, Nutrition, Malnutrition, Economy, Farmers, Finance, NGO, India, Karnataka, Punjab, Food Security, Crops
India

 Rice: the real cost

It is said the future wars would be fought over the issue of water, not land. Yet Indian government promotes rice, which consumes water, over the dryland friendly grains

Publication Date: 
14/05/2001
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Deccan Plateau, Dryland Farming, Food Crops, Rice, Wheat, Food Supply, Nutrition, Malnutrition, Economy, Farmers, Finance, NGO, India, Karnataka, Punjab, Food Security, Crops

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