देश की कृषि को दुनिया की कुल कृषि-भूमि का महज 2.4 फीसदी और कुल जल-संसाधन का सिर्फ 4.0 प्रतिशत हासिल है। तो, क्या इस सीमित संसाधन के बूते भारतीय कृषि दुनिया की 17.5 फीसदी आबादी(भारतीय) का पेट भरने की चुनौती सफलतापूर्वक निभा सकेगी ? हाल के सालों में इस चुनौती ने और भी ज्यादा गंभीर रुप धारण किया है क्योंकि वैश्विक तापन(ग्लोबल वार्मिंग) और उससे जुड़े पर्यावरणगत बदलावों के कारण देश...
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Rate of deforestation has slowed: U.N. report
Ambitious planting programmes in Asia and the United States have helped slow the global rate of deforestation but farmers are still cutting trees to clear land at an alarmingly high rate, a U.N. survey released on Thursday shows. Forests absorb and store greenhouse gases so deforestation can exacerbate mean the effects of climate change, said Mette Loyche Wilkie, coordinator of the assessment by the U.N. Food and Agriculture Organization. Eduardo Rojas,...
More »A time for introspection
Increasing scrutiny of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change and, in particular, its chairman, should lead to reforms THE past month has not been a good one for Rajendra Pachauri (pictured above), the charismatic chairman of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) and director general of TERI, an Indian research institute. His numerous positions on boards and industrial advisory panels, in India and beyond, have led to charges of conflicts...
More »GMO Crops: A Few Questians to the Genetic Engineering by Sailendra Nath Ghosh
In April last year, the Supreme Court, in response to a public interest litigation filed by the Gene Campaign (whose convenor is the internationally known geneticist Dr Suman Sahai), directed the Genetic Engineering Approval Committee (GEAC) to consider the toxicity and allergenicity of GM crops and to post the relevant material on the web so that independent experts could examine these. The Supreme Court asked the GEAC to study also...
More »Inclusive growth: the missing ingredient in Bihar’s success story by Shireen Vakil Miller
Bihar has been in the news recently for recording an average growth rate of 11.3 per cent for the period between 2004 and 2009. Much has been written about the quality of governance and the improved state of roads. This is indeed commendable, and no mean achievement, for a State that had virtually become a “development outcast”. I was pleasantly surprised to note on a recent trip to Bihar the...
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