Home-garden-system is an ecosystem of different kind and a common feature of most suburban landscape in many rice farming tropical countries. If these kinds of ecosystems are well maintained, well-developed and used most sustainably; they can contribute a lot to the conservation of biological diversity by lessening the destructive use of the few nature reserves and forest ecosystems remaining.
shakuntala, 60, of Chamarpura village in Moradabad district in Uttar Pradesh continues to carry her traditional occupation of manual scavenging. She has no other alternative. On March 18, 2007, the
on february 22, 2007, clearance to the Tipaimukh dam project in Manipur was stalled for a second time because of lack of sufficient data submitted to the appraisal committee for the project's
as hectic preparations are in progress for the proposed visit of prime minister Manmohan Singh and United Progressive Alliance chairperson Sonia Gandhi to Manipur, The Action Committee against
hailstorm in most farming areas of Manipur in October took farmers, eagerly awaiting the harvest, by surprise. It left standing crops damaged. Imphal East, Bishenpur, Chandel, Senapati, Tamenglong, Thoubal and Ukhrul districts reported hailstorms between October 21 to 24, 2006.
Imphal, Manipur s capital, came to a grinding halt on August 28, with a strike being called. Imphal s people are habituated to bandhs, and most of them are successful. But this was a bandh with a difference more than 20 social and political organi
