Earth links

Reaping the benefits

CFM brings social and economic prosperity to several village communities

The bare essentials

To make community forest management a success

Orissa villagers protect forest, reap benefits

$1.5 trillion global trade finance gap affecting SDG targets: ADB

Women entrepreneurs and small and medium-sized enterprises are the worst-hit

UNDP administrator pushes for forest protection for sustainable development at Davos

‘Commodity production without deforestation a win-win situation’

The road ahead

A logjam in the making

Lack of enthusiasm marks the preparations for the World Summit on Sustainable Development

Stepping on the gas

Market rules UK's land-use planning

Repeat and step it up

First comes chick

Kuroiler hens offer a poultry business model that can fight poverty, nutritional stress

True measure of growth

Bill Or Bull?

Why is India pushing for the enactment of a bill that does not protect agriculture?

Community forest management THE NEPALESE EXPERIENCE

Nepal government decided to hand over certain forest areas to rural communities.

Fish on the front burner

Marine species likely to top CITES meet agenda

Quest in vain?

How can CDM resolve the conflict between developed and developing country interests?

Push for neem-based fertilisers

Rajasthan tackles drought through pokhars

Tree-fellers turn forest guardians in Bangladesh

Tribal women in Chattisgarh beat the poverty trap with fortunes from traditional medicines

London gallery displays recycled human waste

Badlands can earn

Tree is not timber

India won’t meet UN targets to reduce premature mortality from major non-communicable diseases: ICMR-NCDIR

NCDs account for 66 per cent of all deaths in India, of which 22 per cent were premature deaths in 2019