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Transforming rice production with SRI (System of Rice Intensification) knowledge and practice: Reducing agriculture foot print and ensuring food security: A book by T M Thiyagarajan and Biksham Gujja
Posted on 01 Aug, 2012 03:56 PMThis book by AgSri , attempts to explain the origin, principles and practices of System of Rice Intensification (SRI), a technology that aims to save water and also enhance the rice yield.
CDM Watch Network India invites comments for latest projects applying for Clean Development Mechanism crediting in India
Posted on 01 Aug, 2012 03:19 PMThe Clean Development Mechanism (CDM) has mobilized thousands of projects in the last few years but has at the same time set off serious concerns about the environmental integrity of its projects and its genuine contribution to sustainable development.
Thirst in the land of Malhaar - Aamir Khan focuses on water in the 12th episode of Satyamev Jayate
Posted on 01 Aug, 2012 12:49 PMSatyamev Jayate is a serial produced by Aamir Khan and Kiran Rao and aired on StarPlus. Each of its 13 episodes take a hard look at one of the various problems facing India today.
Masters training program in 'Sustainable Agriculture (Theory and Practice), Centre for Sustainable Agriculture, August 27-29, 2012, Secunderabad
Posted on 01 Aug, 2012 12:03 PMOrganiser: Centre for Sustainable Agriculture
Venue: St Ann' Generalate,
Tarnaka,
Secunderabad
Centre for Sustainable Agriculture is a professional resource organization engaged in establishing models of sustainable agriculture working in partnership with NGOs and community based organizations by scaling up the successes and engaging with the establishment for a policy change. CSA believes in promoting sustainable agricultural technologies that are based on farmers’ knowledge and skills, their innovation based on local conditions and their use of nature’s products and processes to gain better control over the pre-production and production processes involved in agriculture. CSA works with farmers to conserve their resources and their rights.
Save Western Ghats meet, Applied Environmental Research Foundation and Save the Western Ghats Group, November 30-December 2, 2012, Mahabaleshwar, Maharashtra
Posted on 01 Aug, 2012 11:16 AMOrganisers: Applied Environmental Research Foundation (AERF) and Save the Western Ghats Group
Venue: Mahabaleshwar,
Maharashtra Tourism Development Corporation Complex
Applied Environmental Research Foundation with the support of Save the Western Ghats group is proud to announce the celebrations of 25 years of Save the Western Ghats march. A meeting of some civil society organizations and other stakeholder from various walks of life will be organised.
Water and a City: A film by Swati Dandekar that narrates the story of water in Bangalore
Posted on 01 Aug, 2012 10:04 AMDirected and produced by Swati Dandekar, 'Water and a City' traces the journey of water through Bangalore using a succession of haunting im
The Third National Conference on Agro-Informatics and Precision Agriculture 2012 (AIPA 2012), Indian Society of Agricultural Information Technology, August 1-3, 2012, Hyderabad
Posted on 31 Jul, 2012 11:52 PMOrganiser: Indian Society of Agricultural Information Technology (INSAIT)
Venue: International Institute of Information Technology,
Gachibowli,
Hyderabad,
The INSAIT professional society was launched at Dharwad, India in the year 2000. So far INSAIT has organized two national conferences and one International Conference, since its inception in the year 2000. The first national conference on Agro-Informatics was organized in June 2001, at the University of Agricultural Sciences (UAS), Dharwad and the second national conference on Agro-Informatics and Precision Farming was organized in December 2009 at UAS, Raichur. The fifth International Conference of the Asian Federation for Information Technology in Agriculture (AFITA), Japan was organized by INSAIT in November 2006 at Indian Institute of Science, Bangalore.
Augmentation of surface water by ground water from unconfined aquifers (open wells) and fixing mini filter plants and dozing systems for the supply of potable water to Belgaum city- A power point presentation by R.S.Naik
Posted on 31 Jul, 2012 04:45 PMThis power point presentation is about a project carried out by Belgaum City Corporation, that aims to utilise ground water from open well to augment surface water supply.
Strengthen participatory urban governance to prevent pollution in Ganga at Kanpur and recognise the need to look for decentralized solutions
Posted on 31 Jul, 2012 02:17 PMA one day Area Water Partnership Conference was held on 22nd July, 2012 by Shramik Bharti, Kanpur; Society for Action in Community Health (SACH) and Society for Promotion of Wastelands Development (SPWD), New Delhi at Jajmau, Kanpur, an industrial city on the banks of the Ganga which also happens to be a major centre for leather tanneries, which let out
Manual Scavenging Act and municipal wastewater workers in India, policy and practice - A dissertation
Posted on 31 Jul, 2012 10:20 AMIndian municipal waste water disposal system generated a "neo scavengers" of municipal waste water workers/ sewer workers in organised occupations.
Solutions on the rehabilitation of manual scavengers were been enacted with the Employment of Manual Scavengers and Construction of Dry Latrines (Prohibition) Act, 1993 .