April 2011 Blog Posts (6)

Rethinking Food Security Policies:

IDSAsr Declaration

 

{Declaration made at the end of two days national seminar on Food security and Sustainability in India held on November 7-8, 2009 organized by GAD Institute of Development Studies, PO Naushera, Amritsar 143008 and sponsored by Council for Scientific and Industrial Research (CSIR), Indian Council of Social Sciences…

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MANAGING NATURAL RESOURCES - IDSAsr VERDICT

 

The scarcity value of natural resources has risen due to rising pressure of human population and demands made by modern economics progress. As such managing these resources has become very important. Bringing out the Indian scenario of natural resources, Dr. K Kasturirangan, Member, Planning Commission, Government of India, an internationally…

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Toxics Link have launched the online version of the South Asia Newsletter 'TOXICSPOST'. With this we promise to share facts, write-ups, opinions, news items and open up new conversations on environment, health and chemical safety issues in the region while simultaneously involving other stakeholders around the world.



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Water Security and Climate Change: Challenges and Strategies 

 

Overview:

Water is a fundamental human need and a critical national asset. It is the key to socio-economic development and quality of life. As the pressures of population and economic activities converge on water requirement, the water sector will increasingly face the challenge of bridging the demand-supply gap. Water…

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All models are wrong: some models are useful

– Noel de Nevers in his book ‘Air Pollution Control Engineering’.

It's true whether you believe in it or not. Ideally, the perfect air pollutant concentration model would allow us to predict the concentrations that would result from any specified set of pollutant emissions, for any specified meteorological conditions, at any…

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Nearly four years of living in America, and not even a single cup of milk that is completely guiltless. Yes. From Arlington, TX, to Lexington, KY, it has been difficult for me to find compassion, purity, and love in milk. Petaluma, where I live, is a place of farms and fertile soil, cows and land - the original wealth of men. So, it was not a surprise when I found the best plain milk I had in the last four years of living in the US coming from … Continue