Traditional Knowledge

Healthy kya?

Why are companies across all product categories nutracising their brands? Obviously, to catch a huge market growing by the day for health and dietary supplements

Publication Date:

14/02/2005

Source: Down to Earth

Vol:

13

Issue:

20050215

pp:

0

Tags:

Food Crops, Vegetables, Haldi, Neem, Tamarind, Traditional Knowledge, Ayurveda, Drugs, Drug Industry, Industry, Legislation, India

Biodiversity

Unity in diversity

a meeting of the Convention on Biodiversity (cbd) will be held in February in Bangkok to discuss rules for international transfer of biological resources. In preparation, ministerial delegations of a

Publication Date:

14/02/2005

Author(s): Shams Kazi

Source: Down to Earth

Tags:

Convention On Biological Diversity (CBD), Neem, WTO, Traditional Knowledge, Biodiversity, Patents, Mexico, Brazil, Developing Countries

Agriculture

Killing fields

AIDS threatens subsistence agriculture in Africa

Publication Date:

29/09/2004

Source: Down to Earth

Tags:

Agriculture, Traditional Knowledge, AIDS, Africa

Biodiversity

A partial success

But escape clauses weaken radical decisions taken at the recent convention on biodiversity

Publication Date:

14/04/2004

Author(s): Ashish Kothari

Source: Down to Earth

Vol:

12

Issue:

20040415

pp:

0

Tags:

Traditional Knowledge, Biodiversity

Biodiversity

A biopiracy coup

Yes, if the Action Group on Erosion, Technology and Concentration is to be believed.

Publication Date:

14/04/2004

Author(s): Anju Sharma

Source: Down to Earth

Vol:

12

Issue:

20040415

pp:

0

Tags:

Tribals, Traditional Knowledge, Medicinal Plants, Biodiversity, Biodiversity Conservation, Benefit Sharing, India

Biodiversity

Busy preludes to biodiversity meet

Crucial issues such as protection of traditional knowledge, and creation of an international regime on access to genetic resources and benefit sharing were taken up by two working groups of the Convention on Biological Diversity CBD in December. The bod

Publication Date:

14/01/2004

Source: Down to Earth

Tags:

Traditional Knowledge, Biodiversity, Genetic Resources, Legislation, European Union (EU)

India

Printers' devil

The Jaipur bench of the Rajasthan High Court has ordered the relocation of Sanganer’s polluting dyeing and printing units within a year. Failure to comply with the directive would result in their closure

Publication Date:

14/04/2003

Author(s): Kushal P S Yadav

Source: Down to Earth

Tags:

Pollution, Groundwater Pollution, Industrial Dispersal, Health Effects, Textile Industry, Irrigation, Trade, Traditional Knowledge, Hazardous Products, Legislation, High Court, India, Rajasthan, Statistics

Forests

Where are the <i>tapovans</i>?

Both India and China are ancient civilisations possessing characteristic indigenous knowledge of conservation of natural ecosystems. The Chinese have recognised the potential of traditional knowledge and regard religious forests as an asset and an importa

Publication Date:

14/02/2003

Author(s): Paromita Ghosh

Source: Down to Earth

Vol:

11

Issue:

20030215

pp:

0

Tags:

Ecosystems, Forests, Land Degradation, Himalaya, Traditional Knowledge, Sacred Groves, Religious Beliefs, Medicinal Plants, Biodiversity, China, India