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
Centre for Science and Environment (CSE)
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Policy Brief: Strategy for Inspection of On-Road BS-VI Vehicles
India adopted nationwide Bharat Stage VI (BS-VI) emissions standards on 1 April 2020. This direct leapfrog from BS-IV to BS-VI emissions standards has led to a paradigm shift in emission-control systems,
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UGANDA: Policy Strategies to Augment Groundwater Through Rainwater Harvesting
More than 75 per cent of Uganda’s population lives in rural areas and depends heavily on groundwater resources. While groundwater reserves are currently adequate to cater to the needs of the rural population—except
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Managing Biomedical Waste in India
Four years after Biomedical Waste Management Rules were notified in India, implementation has improved in certain areas but continues to remain iffy on key parameters. COVID-19 has brought the need for
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Environmental Norms for Coal-Fired Power Stations
This factsheet offers a status update on the state of compliance with the December 2015 norms, with respect to particulate matter, sulphur dioxide, and oxides of nitrogen. Compliance with water and mercury
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Pandemic and A case for green recovery Lessons from the transport sector
To deal with the sharp economic downturn caused by the COVID-19 pandemic, the Government of India has announced a slew of packages estimated to be about ten per cent of India’s GDP. While there is a lot
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Managing Plastic Waste in India
A recent study estimates that the world has produced about 8.3 billion metric tonnes of plastics between 1950 and 2015 — 80 per cent of this is plastic waste. A meagre 9 per cent of this waste has been
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State of Organic and Natural Farming in India: Challenges and Possibilities
Organic and natural farming in India is still at a nascent stage. To scale it up and make it a mass movement, governments at the Centre and in states must take big steps. Mainstreaming organic and natural
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Pandemic and Mobility- Lessons from the COVID-19 crisis for building solutions
<p><img alt="" src="https://cdn.downtoearth.org.in/uploads/0.50648100_1459181755_0.JPG" style="width: 333px; height: 236px; margin: 14px; float: left;" />COVD-19 is an unprecedented opportunity to change
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Benefit sharing in the mining sector in Africa
<p>In essence, the notion of benefit sharing is recognition of the natural rights of affected communities over mineral resources in their traditional and historical homelands. Communities have a right
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Analysis of salt, total fat, trans fat and carbohydrate in junk food
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