NEEDED: A WAKE-UP CALL

Foresters need to throw away their blinkers. Scientists need to prioritise areas of research

Drugged by chicken

Antibiotics in meat make disease-causing bacteria resistant to cures

Give native knowledge its due place

Paying farmers for ecological services

The Monsanto way

How the US multinational won state governments and influenced policy

Can permaculture make agriculture sustainable?

Mandla Brimful of thirst

Average rainfall: 1,300 mm Irrigation: 2% of gross cropped area

Fruitful deliberations

Two global meetings chart a course for weeding out biopiracy

A Sunrise industry

Natural dye business survives on exporters and the local carpet industry

No business drive

Research efforts on natural colours are not helping the traditional industry

Searching for Roots

India's wealth of flora and fauna provide a rainbow of natural dyes

Finally, community forest rights

Tribals of BR Hills can now manage resources in Karnataka reserve

Chayawanprash, an ayurvedic tonic has artificial sweetner

In Short

Reclaiming Simple Clod

More and more loss

More and more water

More yield per hectare

More and more urea

Fertilisers boost plant growth but imbalanced application soon leads to use-fatigue

Food for nutrition, nature & livelihood

What societies eat reflects their position on the modernity trajectory

The myth of green building

Field day

India's soils are in a bad shape. T V Jayan investigates

Lock & hold

The jallikattu bull row in Tamil Nadu provokes the law v culture debate

YAWN!

The Indian Science Congress 2001 represented the state of science in India

ICAR chases patents for pickle

The National Research Centre on Meat has odd ideas on what can be patented