Wastelands

Telling children how not to go the dodo way

ANY ATTEMPT at promoting awareness of the interdependence of humans and the environment is a welcome step. This is especially true of the need to tell children about the harm that has been done to

Publication Date:

30/12/1993

Author(s): Amena Jayal

Source: Down to Earth

Vol:

2

Issue:

19931231

pp:

0

Tags:

Wastelands, Chipko Movement, Children, Conflicts, Education, CSE

India

Development dilemmas

Different estimates of the extent of the country's wastelands area has forced the ministry of rural development to call for a remapping of such areas. The ministry's wasteland development department

Publication Date:

14/11/1993

Source: Down to Earth

Tags:

Wastelands, Wasteland Development, Rural Development, Remote Sensing, Hyderabad (D)

India

A praiseworthy decision

THE PRIME Minister needs to be congratulated for his decision to set up a department exclusively in charge of wasteland afforestation. He shifted the charge from the ministry of forests and

Publication Date:

30/07/1992

Source: Down to Earth

Vol:

1

Issue:

19920731

pp:

0

Tags:

Wastelands, Water Harvesting, Afforestation, India

India

New hope for Himalayan wastelands

The seabuckthorn plant can change the lives of marginal farmers by enriching soil with nitrogen, preventing its erosion and providing numerous income avenues

Publication Date:

29/06/1992

Author(s): Binod Bhattarai

Source: Down to Earth

Tags:

Ecology, Wastelands, Himalaya, Afforestation, Economic Development

India

Women build where others destroy

Why do women who attempt changes in local land use patterns meet with so much hostility?

Publication Date:

14/06/1992

Author(s): Madhu Sarin

Source: Down to Earth

Vol:

1

Issue:

19920615

pp:

0

Tags:

Wastelands, Afforestation, Rural Habitat, Tribals, Women, India, Gujarat

Solid Waste

Govt out to clean up hospital wasteland

Stricter disposal guidelines planned for infectious wastes, penalties to be imposed for violations

The Delhi government will announce new, stricter guidelines for disposal of bio-medical waste by hospitals.

Publication Date:

03/05/2010

Source: Indian Express (New Delhi)

Tags:

Pollution, Wastelands, Solid Waste, Hospital Waste, Waste Disposal, Hazardous Waste, Radioactive Waste, Nuclear Wastes, Delhi

Energy

Lack of raw material, govt pricing dash biofuel dreams

The biofuel industry is finding it tough to remain in business, with both government pricing and raw material availability working against them.

The government, on its part, has launched a massive programme to develop high-yielding varieties of jatropha, a plant that can grow in wastelands across India, to meet the severe raw material shortage for the green fuel industry.

Publication Date:

07/04/2010

Source: Business Standard (New Delhi)

Tags:

Wastelands, Bio Fuel Crops, Jetropha, Alternative Fuels, Energy Policy, Biofuel, Energy

Energy

Jatropha biofuels: UK investors sell controversial crop as 'green'

UK fund managers are selling investments in jatropha plantations as a wallet-swelling, planet-saving financial bonanza. But the reality for poor farmers is very different.

Publication Date:

15/02/2010

Author(s): Andrew Wasley

Source: Ecologist

Vol:

0

Issue:

0

pp:

1

Tags:

Land Use, Wastelands, Food Crops, Irrigation, Deforestation, Biofuel, Farmers, Energy, Senegal, Swaziland, Tanzania, United Kingdom (UK), India, Assam, Meghalaya, Food Security

Energy

Jatropha biofuels: the true cost to Tanzania

Billed as wonder crop, the establishment of jatropha plantations on the ground in Tanzania has been far from successful, or, in some cases, ethical: a report.

Publication Date:

15/02/2010

Author(s): Thembi Mutch

Source: Ecologist

Vol:

0

Issue:

0

pp:

1

Tags: