India

 The dollar conscious producers

Two firms in Tamil Nadu show the way to exporting organically produced foodstuff.

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Organic Farming, Food Process Industry, Solar Dryers, Exports, Tamil Nadu
Agriculture

 Not much incentive

A PLAN to reward UK farmers switching to organic methods has been criticised for not recognising those already practising organic farming. Under the five-year scheme, the government will pay British

Publication Date: 
30/12/1993
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Organic Farming, Farmers, Finance, United Kingdom (UK)
India

 'Ours is a model of natural farming'

A couple in Kerala demonstrate that barren land can be brought back to life without using any external inputs.

Publication Date: 
14/12/1993
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Soil Erosion, Organic Farming, Water Conservation, Afforestation, Birds, India, Kerala
India

 Training villagers in organic farming

Despite the general reluctance of farmers to adopt organic farming, one village in Tamil Nadu is using these techniques successfully.

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India

 Complementarity begets productivity

ORGANIC farming technologies involve adaptation to local environments. Continuing the series on organic farming See Down To Earth, November 30, 1993 , here are two more examples of such farming technologies. The secret of Karnataka's L Narayana Reddy's s

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14/12/1993
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Organic Farming, Natural Fertilisers, Pesticides, Biological PC, NGO, India, Karnataka
India

 Realising the virtues of organic farming

Several organisations, at home and abroad, are promoting organic farming as a method of food production that is both ecologically and socially sustainable.

Publication Date: 
29/11/1993
Down to Earth
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Organic Farming, Farmers, NGO, CSE, Sustainable Development
Water Pollution

 The land can teach how. to use it best

UNDER the unrelenting pressure of population growth, millions of landholdings in Asia and other parts of the developing world are small - and getting smaller. India alone has at least 33

Publication Date: 
14/04/1993
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Water Pollution, Organic Farming, Pest Control, Population, Asia, Developing Countries
Agriculture

Future Food: Peru - Old or New?

Behind an unmarked door in a Lima suburb, Javier Wong is planning a revolution in more than just stir-fry cooking. In fact the very future of food - and farming - is being re-imagined here in a city where nobody dined out 20 years ago, where there is no national tradition of gastronomy, and where there is considerable malnutrition. But in the capital of Peru, a city not so long ago wracked by Shining Path terrorist violence, the top chefs - men and women like Gaston Acurio, Javier Wong and Pedro Miguel Schiaffino - believe gastronomy can achieve social justice.

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Agriculture, Peru, Traditional Knowledge, Farmers, Potato, Nutrition, Food Security, Organic Farming
Agriculture
Navdanya
Environment, India, Agriculture, Organic Farming, Climate Change, Genetic Engineering, Seeds, Biodiversity, Navdanya
Agriculture
Vandana Shiva
Agriculture, Food Security, Environmentalists, India, Organic Farming, Seeds, Crop Biodiversity, Biodiversity Conservation, Vandana shiva

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