Plasm politics

CHILE

Food aplenty

In dire straits

Poor yield

Doing away fertilisers

China

Rain plays truant in Italy too

Northeast wisdom

Dope dependent

Monsanto loses wheat patent

Dry

Pakistan's rabi season

Nitrogen sensor

Can limit the polluting fertiliser run-off in waterbodies

Bank on people

What a new minimum livelihood programme must do, at the least

High-yield, low agro-diversity

Green Revolution crops have also snuffed out farmers' wisdom in the Western Himalaya

Spur to militancy?

Investments in the Northeast fail to generate employment

Ebbing away

There's a way

How do we bring economy, and equity, to water supply?

Let people do it

Involve communities in the distribution process

Check wastage

Put a price to water

A partial success

Private sector-community collaborations need more inputs

Make it different

For the rich and for the poor

Be cautious

Privatisation can do more harm than good

It's often a disaster

South Africa's experience with privatisation

Limited

The private sector's role