Climate Change

Sustainable agriculture and climate change

Agriculture is now recognised as both contributing to and suffering from the negative effects of climate change. Farming accounts for as much as 32% of greenhouse gas emissions, if

Publication Date: 
01/05/2009
ActionAid International
Tags:
Agriculture, GM Crops, Climate Change, Climate Adaptation, Farmers, Women, Africa
Climate Change

Resource guide on gender and climate change

This UNDP guide focuses on including women

Publication Date: 
01/05/2009
Lance W. Garmer
UNDP
Tags:
UNFCCC, Infant mortality, Carbon Dioxide, Atmosphere, Climate Change, Green House Gases, Climate Impacts, Kyoto Protocol, Women, Maternal Health, India, Global, Carbon Sinks
Environment

 From the blurbs

The Contested Commons, Conversations between Economists and Anthropologists, edited by Pranab Bardhan and Isha Ray, OUP, Rs 695 The book explores the theme of common environmental resources from the perspective of two disciplines: economics and anthropology. Written by senior scholars in economics, anthropology, sociology, and political science, the essays touch upon economic security,

Publication Date: 
29/04/2009
Down to Earth
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20090430
23
Tags:
Environment, Women, Science, India, South Asia, Trade
Agriculture

The hand that rocks the cradle, feeds the nation

The role of women in agriculture has changed dramatically in developed and developing countries. India

Publication Date: 
25/04/2009
Kavya Dashora, Anjali Gupta, Veena Gupta
Economic and Political Weekly
96
8
1016
Tags:
Agriculture, Women, India, Food Security
Agriculture

AISMK: Top priority for agriculture

Chennai: Actor-politician R. Sarath Kumar

Publication Date: 
23/04/2009
Business Line (New Delhi)
Tags:
Agriculture, Water Resources, Women, Tamil Nadu, Budget
Health

NRHM officials to undergo training on episiotomies

Zubeda Hamid
Chennai

It can lead to perineal injuries, haemorrhage, pain and infection
WHEN G Maria (name changed) was giving birth, she did not even know the doctor was performing an episiotomy.

Publication Date: 
23/04/2009
New Indian Express (Chennai)
Tags:
Health Effects, Health, Women, National Rural Health Mission (NRHM), Birth Technology
Economy

Manifesto

Lok Sabha Elections 2009-

Manifesto of the Indian National Congress

Publication Date: 
20/04/2009
India Today (New Delhi)
Tags:
Jawaharlal Nehru National Urban Renewal Mission (JNNURM), Farmers, Women, National Rural Health Mission (NRHM), Rural Development, Bharat Nirman, National Rural Employment Guarantee Act (NREGA), Knowledge, Political Parties, India
Health

16 faint after drinking polluted water

Eleven children and five women fell unconscious after drinking contaminated water in Lasain Nawab area here on Sunday, hospital sources said.

Publication Date: 
20/04/2009
Dawn (Pakistan)
Tags:
Drinking Water, Health Effects, Women, Children, Pakistan
Economy

Employment growth in rural India: Distress-driven?

The 61st round (2004-05) of the National Sample Survey showed that there was a turnaround in employment growth in rural India after a phase of jobless growth during the 1990s. Paradoxically, this employment growth occurred during a period of widespread distress in the agricultural sector with low productivity, price instability and stagnation leading to indebtedness.

Publication Date: 
18/04/2009
Vinoj Abraham
Economic and Political Weekly
44
16
97
Tags:
Land Ownership, Agriculture, Economy, Consumption Patterns, Migration, Landless, Women, Unemployment, India, Rural Poverty, Debt
People

Book lauds women leaders in microfinance sector

AHMEDABAD: Indian School of Microfinance for Women, Ahmedabad on Thursday organised a book launch ceremony at Centre for Environmental Education
(CEE). The book titled Learning from women leaders in microfinance' features 10 women leaders from different parts of the country. It was launched at a ceremony by institute chairperson and Sewa founder Elaben Bhatt.

Publication Date: 
17/04/2009
Times Of India (Ahmedabad)
Tags:
Development, People, Women

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