India

 Overturning a difficult situation

With careful planning, problems accompanying bamboo flowering can be overcome

Publication Date: 
30/03/2004
I V Ramanuja Rao
Down to Earth
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Tags:
North East, Joint Forest Management (JFM), Bamboo, India
India

 Prop review

By centre for forest scheme

Publication Date: 
28/02/2004
Neelam Singh
Down to Earth
Tags:
North East, Forest Conservation, Timber Industry, India, Mizoram, Nagaland
India

 Will the Bodoland council follow the beaten track?

A concept that did not click in the hills of the Northeast has now been prescribed for the plains of the region. On December 1, the Union government inked a purportedly historic tripartite pact with the Bodo Liberation Tigers and the Assam government to c

Publication Date: 
30/12/2003
Down to Earth
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Tags:
North East, Khasi Hills, Conflicts, Governance, India
India

 Documenting the Northeast's tribal laws

Land is central to the tribal identity in the region too easily abbreviated northeast . Jeuti baruah knows this too well. As director of the Law research Centre, Guwahati, she is constantly discovering how friable these identities are in the face of cons

Publication Date: 
14/12/2003
Nitin Sethi
Down to Earth
Tags:
North East, Tribals, Research, Legislation, High Court, India, Guwahati
India

 A new Northeast magazine

Grassroots Options is about development or the lack of it in the northeast

Publication Date: 
29/11/2003
Nitin Sethi
Down to Earth
Tags:
North East, Information, Media, India, Shillong
India

 Northeast ahoy!

Prime minister Atal Bihari Vajpayee has grand plans to illuminate the whole country by now harnessing hydropower from the northeast region. His logic: hydropower projects will usher in local development. But local communities find this logic alienating. T

Publication Date: 
29/09/2003
Down to Earth
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Tags:
North East, Hydroelectricity, Rehabilitation, Electricity, India
India

 Cancer - A disturbing trend in Mizoram

It is only now that the state is being put on the cancer map of India. Ironically, even the late inclusion has been necessitated by an Indian Council of Medical Research - WHO project to develop a cancer atlas of the country

Publication Date: 
30/05/2003
Vibha Varshney
Down to Earth
Tags:
North East, Cancer, Health Care, Health Education, Medical Research, Smoking, Governance, India
India

 Bamboo flowering

People in northeast India fear bamboo flowering. According to an ancient belief when bamboos flower, there is death and destruction.

Publication Date: 
29/06/2002
R S Nadgauda
Down to Earth
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Tags:
North East, Food Crops, Fodder, Wood, Bamboo, Drought, Famine, Tribals, Traditional Knowledge, Economic Development, Research, India, Manipur, Mizoram
Biodiversity

Biodiversity characterisation at landscape level in North-East India using satellite remote sensing and G

Biodiversity characterisation at landcape level was carried out using Indian remote sensing satellite data in North Eastern region of India. This study presents the results of the project undertaken to build a national database on biodiversity at landscape level. This is important in order to check the alarming biodiversity loss currently taking place in this part of the country.

Publication Date: 
Jan 2002
Indian Institute of Remote Sensing
Tags:
North East, Biodiversity, Remote Sensing, Geographical Information Systems (GIS), India
Agriculture

 Old as the hills

Shifting agriculture on the hillsides has been going on for centuries. In recent times, it has been blamed for degrading the ecology. Agriculture is a sound ecological management strategy, provided it is sustainable

Publication Date: 
30/05/2001
Down to Earth
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Tags:
Environment, Land Degradation, Soil Erosion, North East, Agriculture, Shifting Cultivation, Forest Resources, Tropical Forests, Trees, Asia, Honduras, India, Nagaland, Developing Countries, Forests

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