First food: business of taste
Good Food is First Food. It is not junk food. It is the food that connects nature and nutrition with livelihoods. This food is good for our health; it comes from the rich biodiversity of our regions; it
Traditional Knowledge
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Film review: A planet of hope
<b>Kalahandi: A Planet of Herbs</b> / Director: Amarendra Kishore / 28 minutes / English/Hindi
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The Biological Diversity Act, 2002
An act to provide for conservation of biological diversity, sustainable use of its components and fair and equitable sharing of the benefits arising out of the use of biological resources, knowledge and for matters connected therewith or incidental thereto. Whereas India is rich in biological diversity and associated traditional and contemporary knowledge system relating thereto.
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Field day
India s soils are in a bad shape. <font class=UCASE>T V Jayan</font> investigates
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More and more urea
Fertilisers boost plant growth but imbalanced application soon leads to use-fatigue
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Tough trial
Can Indian traditional medicines transfer their ancient efficacy to the modern era?
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More yield per hectare
Agricultural growth in India has always laboured under the burden of producing more. The idea was: grow only foodgrains. That meant: not ecologically adapted cereals such as millets, but rice and
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More and more water
A third factor has led to the current debility of soils in India: irrigation. That is to say, water over-use. To feed the rice-wheat mentality, net irrigated area rose from 20.8 million ha in 1950 to
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More and more loss
The domino effect of bad policy-making and its fallout
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Reclaiming Simple Clod
Soils are a very slow renewable resource. To reclaim them requires, above all, a long-term plan. With falling productivity, the realisation has sunk in that soils cannot be blindly mined, and that
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S&T R&D = 8% GDP growth
High office and scientific understanding seem further apart today