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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Spinning with ease
Researchers at the Magan Sangrahalaya in Wardha, Maharashtra, have designed an efficient charkha (spinning wheel). This three-spindle spinning machine is simple, light and reasonably priced. A team
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Knowledge seeks power
The rights of indigenous communities, which have nurtured traditional systems of knowledge through the ages, will be discussed at length at Bratislava. But the South is not showing any urgency in this direction
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"Natural resources need to be protected"
For centuries the people in Bhinyad, a village in Barmer district, Rajasthan, been planning their agricultural activities while preserving the natural resources in the region in a unique way. <font class='UCASE'><font color=red><b<>Gewra Ram Parihar</b>
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Best kept sacred
Sacred groves are deteriorating at an alarming rate across the country. There is an urgent need to identify and protect these sacred woods to save nature in its pristine form.
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The forests of the gods
The sacred groves of Himachal Pradesh
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Hunting for the snark
Problems in conservation of sacred groves first have to be identified. The solution lies in measures that involve and encourage local people
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Dwindling woods
Decline of values and forest degradation in the hills of Uttar Pradesh
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Roots
Worldwide, traditional medicinal systems are in the process of being modernised. Besides health care and conservation of medicinal plants, the rights of the local communities that have preserved these systems for centuries are also at stake
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Guiding myths
Folk knowledge is a treasure that has been passed on by word of mouth. It needs to be protected and documented before it is lost
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Knowledge without power
A us withdrawal of patent on the use of turmeric as a wound healing agent would do little to solve the greater problem of protecting traditional systems of knowledge