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... (ISCC) for its Jatropha contract farming model, a world first for any Jatropha business. To... of Mission's Jatropha contract farmers in India underwent intensive audits to evaluate the sustain...
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With its profusion of languages, ethnic groups and regional diversities, with its unique caste system, with its contrast between information technology and industry billionaires and the nearly 300 million people who live below the poverty line, with its mixture of Mahatma Gandhi's nonviolent philosophy and outbreaks of savage communal violence, and with its success as a parliamentary democracy despite having 400 million people who cannot read or write, India remains a bewilderingly complex country. A powerful moral leader as well as a wily politician, Gandhi wanted Indians to be proud of their past, to wear Indian rather than foreign dress, to challenge their colonial overlords through peaceful protest and noncooperation and not through violence, and to eliminate discrimination against...
... economy that employed outdated farming methods, had low yields, and depended on the whims..., a brake on India's developing labor-intensive manufactures. Given India's lower wages, mass-prod...
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... hospitals in areas with a high density of farming add "contact to livestock" as a risk factor to the... to apply topical treatments or when an intensive topical regimen has failed; . * Mild-to-moderate a... study conducted at three hospitals in India, high level mupirocin resistance was identified in...
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... north-east Panjub, the former province of India, malaria epidemics increased fivefold in the year ...Moreover, the farming households have to meet the treatment costs and pu... studies indicate that countries with intensive malaria in the Africa region experienced dramatica...
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... districts of Orissa, in the eastern part of India. They are populated by the indigenous community of... majority of leading companies in water-intensive industries have weak management and disclosure of ... water of more than 20,000 women and men, farming and fishing communities and indigenous peoples set...
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...-year study from Maikaal District in central India involving 1,000 farmers cultivating 3,200 hectares... both a strictly organic and chemical-intensive approach in terms of yield, economics, and environ...
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... in East and Southeast Asia) and then India in the 1980s (and especially after market-based re... spatial range and the intensification of farming and pasture use; massive appropriation of freshwat... the adoption and diffusion of resource-intensive technologies, such as coal-fired power plants and ...
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... across much of Southeast Asia, occurring in India, Bangladesh, Burma, Thailand, Cambodia, Malaysia,.... Cambodian Government created Integrated Farming and. Biodiversity Areas (IFBA), including over 161... Pradesh has experienced growth of intensive agricultural practices in recent years (Senapathi ...
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[...] the opposite is more likely to be the case. Since the impending urbanization of die world has to proceed through a transformation of rural places, and rural resources remain valuable for new forms of economic accumulation, a focus on rural areas actually becomes even more imperative Moreover, variations in the characteristics of rural populations across the globe (Table 1) with a highly urbanized Global North (mainly Europe, the US and Australia) standing in marked contrast to a predominandy rural Global South (including Asia and Africa)9 make it apparent that rural planning has to be tailored to fit regionally specific needs.
... from the persistence of small-scale farming in parts of Asia and Africa to the issue of farm s... the rural merely signifies an even more intensive exploitation of rural resources for capitalist acc...
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... have continued investing in carbon intensive energy sources and promoting trade agreements that... of carbon credits come from projects in India and China involving the destruction of "super-poll... that are carbon intensive, such as farming, fossil fuel use for energy, and raising livestock...