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Villgro Wantrapreneur 2010 - For Social Entrepreneurs
Are you a Social entreprenur having a focus in Agriculture, Water, Energy?
Do you have an innovative product/ service or process?
Have you been in operation for more than 6 months?
Apply now to Wantrapreneur by visiting http://www.villgro.org/wantrapreneur.
Winners get a cash prize upto 1.5 lakhs and get a chance to get incubated by Villgro.
Author: Villgro I
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Sanitation Models in Tamil Nadu
A few weeks back I had the opportunity to visit a couple of partners in Tamil Nadu. These two partners are facing a difficult task—sanitation and hygiene implementation through community participation. One project is in the urban slums of Trichy while the other one is a rural project a few hours outside of Trichy. These communities have open defecation rates of 90%. The problem mostly lies on the women. Women feel embarrassed and ashamed to
Author: Shwetha
go out in the open, so as a result they only go in the early mornings or late at night—basically during pitch black. Menstrual Health is a topic that is...
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The Indigenous Struggle- A look at three films on who owns our resources
This past weekend was the only international film festival on water, worldwide—Voices from the Water, held in Bangalore in several different locations. Working for a water NGO, I made my schedule free to catch up on some of these movies, to understand what the current issues are and what the film circle is capturing through their lens that we don’t necessarily see from our biased eyes.
With an open mind and no expectation, I selected a few flicks t
Author: Shwethao see—all related to...
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Author: P Ajith
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Movie reviews from 'Voices from the Waters'
The 5th edition of the Voices from the Waters, the international film festival on water held in Bangalore from August 27th to 30th, 2010
Reviews of some of the movies screened -
Author: vijay.parimal
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"Sill Level" of Dams Wrongly written as "Seal Level"
Dams have a Sill Level which refers to the bottom of canal sluice(s) and represents the level up to which a dam can be emptied by flow through gravity. The storage above sill level is called live storage and that below it is called dead storage. Dam gauge starts with zero at this sill level and water levels below it are reported in minus starting from the sill level. While reporting gauges, not only general public, many news papers of repute are also quoting the "Sill Level" as "Seal Level" which needs correction.
Author: Gyan Prakash Soni
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The Commune of Roots - The lonely, atomized farmer?
Article Courtesy: Outlook India
All my life I’d believed farming was the world’s most dead-end job. My grandparents on both sides were farmers in drought-prone Telangana who spent their lifetimes driving their children out of their farms. They were in search of what my grandmother memorably described as the “gentle-mental” comforts—an assured income, a home with modern amenities, a car, public school education—things one couldn’t afford by mere farming. Since then, the family resolutely turned its face from the land, taking up jobs as doctors, engineers, bankers,...
Author: chandrasekharnemani
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Leh Cloud-Burst: a First-Hand Account
Guest Post by Linkesh Diwan (Tale of Grace)
Midnight, August 6, 2010: "Link, wake up! Water is coming in from the roof!" My mother and I were in Leh, Ladakh, staying at "Eco-Homestay," the house of Mr. Sonam Gyatso and family, in Lower Sankar. The house was made in a hybrid of traditional and modern construction techniques: the main hall in the house was concrete, while rooms surrounding it were made of sun-dried mud bricks, and roofed with Poplar beams, a mesh of willow branches, and a thick pad of fine clay-like mud. The house...
Author: linkesh diwan
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Shree Padre's Jackfruit Paradise - Panruti breaks all records
Article Courtesy: Civil Society
JACKFRUIT or kathal is India’s most neglected fruit. Except in Panruti. This sleepy coastal taluk in Cuddalore district of Tamil Nadu is the heaven of jackfruit. It produces the best jackfruits in the country – fat, sweet and tasty. You can buy the fruit round the year.
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Author: chandrasekharnemani
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For more private farm players
Article and Image Courtesy: The Hindu
For more private farm players
Rajiv Kumar
Despite the fact that terms of trade have favoured agriculture over manufacturing since 1995, private investment has not been forthcoming. One of the reasons is the pervasive government presence. This should come down to make way for private players.
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Author: chandrasekharnemani
