India needs to initiate a number of steps to manage the emerging situation. After three consecutive good years, agricultural production has faltered in the last two years. There was a fall in production to the tune of 1.6 per cent in 2008-2009 compared to the previous year. This year, again, agricultural production is likely to be down by 2 per cent or more. The deceleration in the growth of foodgrain...
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Copenhagen: Excluding people & voices for an unfair deal by Sunita Narain
The Copenhagen conference will definitely go down as the worst meeting in global climate negotiations. There is a complete mess here: lines of people standing outside the Bella Centre, where the conference is taking place, wanting to get in. Inside the meeting has broken down for the umpteenth time because industrialized countries refuse to commit to cutting emissions. Instead they want the global climate agreement changed, so that they do...
More »SC throws out Nano LAND plea by Samanwaya Rautray
The Supreme Court today dismissed a Gujarat farmer’s petition against allotment of fertile agricultural LAND in Sanand for Tata Motors’ Nano project. “You cannot complain that only barren LAND should be used for industry and not agricultural LAND, once the LAND has been taken over,” Chief Justice of India K.G. Balakrishnan said. The Narendra Modi government had allotted the 1,000 acres, about 30km from Ahmedabad, last year after Tata Motors withdrew from...
More »SLP against LAND acquisition for Nano dismissed by J Venkatesan
The Supreme Court on Monday declined to interfere with a Gujarat High Court judgment dismissing a petition which challenged LAND acquisition by the State government for the Tata Motors’ Nano project at Surendranagar. Rejecting the public interest litigation petition filed by the NGO, Rashtriya Kisan Dal represented by H.K. Thaker, Chief Justice of India K.G. Balakrishnan asked him: “You don’t want industrialisation of Surendranagar? Gujarat is the second most industrialised State.”...
More »Water and sustainable agriculture by S Janakarajan
The key message of the book is that agriculture in South Asia is quite heavily stressed due to A complex set of socio-economic, agro-climatic, and hydrological factors WATER, AGRICULTURE AND SUSTAINABLE WELL-BEING: Edited by Unai Pascual, Amita Shah, Jayanta Bandyopadhyay; Oxford University Press, YMCA Library Building, Jai Singh Road, New Delhi-110001. Rs. 750. “Eradicate extreme poverty and hunger; halve, between 1990 and 2015, the proportion of people whose income is less...
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