Fisheries

 Rural ventures

A slew of elementary schemes aim to alleviate poverty

Publication Date: 
14/06/2003
Rama
Down to Earth
Tags:
Natural Fertilisers, Banana, Paper and Pulp Industry, Rural Development, Anti-Poverty Programmes, Unemployment, Small Scale Industry, NGO, Waste Recycling
Industry

 Tobacco ban Blatant blackmail

The Rajya Sabha s clearance of the tobacco bill has attracted an ad from the industry criticising the ban imposed on the sale of tobacco products near educational institutions

Publication Date: 
14/05/2003
Down to Earth
Tags:
Tobacco, Unemployment, Legislation, Parliament
Natural Disasters

 Charming no more

The saperas snake charmers of Delhi loive in a unique colony called Mollarbandhgaon. This community, located next to the Badarpur thermal power station, is known locally as sapera basti community of snake charmers. The community has been living

Publication Date: 
29/04/2003
Down to Earth
Tags:
Tribals, Traditional Knowledge, Herbal Medcine, Snakes, Wildlife Act 1972, Unemployment, Delhi, Rajasthan
India

 Profit's the non word

About non profit organisations NPOs , also thought non governmental

Publication Date: 
14/02/2003
Down to Earth
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Aid, Unemployment, NGO, India, Maharashtra, Tamil Nadu, Statistics
Water Resources

 A watershed plan

Recurrent droughts and floods coupled with mass poverty, chronic unemployment and pervasive malnutrition are the major challenges before India. The Union government usually responds by complaining about truant rains and doles out funds in an arbitrary man

Publication Date: 
14/02/2003
H M Desarda
Down to Earth
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Water Resources, Groundwater Recharge, Water Management, Water Conservation, Water Harvesting, Dams, Irrigation, Watershed Development, Rural Development, Village Level Planning, Unemployment, Hydrology, Information, Panchayats
India

 Dam n the rivers

Interlink rivers and get delinked from true water management

Publication Date: 
14/12/2002
Down to Earth
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20021215
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Rivers, Drought, Unemployment, Political Parties, Gujarat, Maharashtra
People

Impoverishment risks and reconstruction: a model for population displacement and resettlement

During the last two decades of the previous century, the magnitude of forced population displacements caused by development programs was on the order of 10 million people each year, or some 200 million people globally during that period. Thus, by their frequency, size, ad the dire consequences, development-cased displacements have become a problem of worldwide proportions.

Publication Date: 
Nov 2002
Michale M. Cernea
Tags:
Displacement, People, Population, Rehabilitation, Unemployment, Food Security
India

 Healing Afghanistan

The karez system could solve the country's water problems

Publication Date: 
29/09/2002
Biksham Gujja
Down to Earth
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Water Management, Drinking Water Scarcity, Drought, Unemployment, Afghanistan, China, Food Security
India

 Solutions unbound

Besides being largely impractical, the land for land approach to the rehabilitation debate is patronising, to say the least

Publication Date: 
30/08/2002
B G Verghese
Down to Earth
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Land Reforms, Dams, Displacement, Rehabilitation, Compensation, Unemployment
India

 Gaps galore

This book is a welcome addition to the growing literature on the joint forest management (JFM) programme. The beginnings of this initiative can be dated to the early 1970s, when people had just begun

Publication Date: 
30/05/2002
Madhav Gadgil
Down to Earth
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Tags:
Forest Management, Forest Policy, Joint Forest Management (JFM), Protected Area Conservation, Economic Development, Unemployment, Ministry Of Environment And Forests (MOEF), India, Andhra Pradesh, Gujarat, Madhya Pradesh, Orissa (Odisha)

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