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The role of organic agriculture in mitigating climate change - a Scoping Study

There is dramatic evidence that various Greenhouse Gases are responsible for Global Warming and climate change. This present study discusses the potential of Organic Agriculture both to avoid and to sequester Greenhouse Gases (GHG), and makes comparisons with conventional agriculture.

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01/05/2004
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Biofuels for transport: an international perspective

Biofuels for transport, including ethanol, biodiesel, and several other liquid and gaseous fuels, have the potential to displace a substantial amount of petroleum around the world over the next few decades, and a clear trend in that direction has begun. This report looks both at recent trends and at the outlook for the future, in terms of potential biofuels production. It also

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01/04/2004
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Status of water quality in coal mining areas of Meghalaya, India

The coal is one of the extensively utilized minerals in Meghalaya. Though coal deposits in the state is found all along the southern fringe of Shillong plateau, Jaintial Hills District is a major producer of coal.

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19/03/2004
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Supreme Court judgment on mining in the Aravalli hill range of Haryana as on 18 March, 2004

The main question to be examined in these matters is whether the

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18/03/2004
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Letter from the Govt of Maharashtra to Lake City Corporation on the grant of environmental clearance

Letter from the Govt of Maharashtra to Lake City Corporation on the grant of environmental clearance to develop township hill station in Taluka - Mulshi, Velhe, District Pune.

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18/03/2004
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Union Budget 2004-2005 (Interim)

Union Budget 2004-2005 (Interim).

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03/02/2004
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Displacement without rehabilitation: adivasis of Alirajpur Tehsil, Jhabua Dist., Madhya Pradesh – a report and survey of eight villages

The villages of Alirajpur are the first in Madhya Pradesh to be affected by the Sardar Sarovar Project (SSP). They are all Adivasi communities with a mixed economy based on agriculture (on titled land as well as forest encroachments), forest produce, herding, and fishing.

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01/02/2004
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Clouds of injustice: Bhopal disaster 20 years on

Twenty years ago around half a million people were exposed to toxic chemicals during a catastrophic gas leak from a pesticide plant in Bhopal, India. More than 7,000 people died within days. A further 15,000 died in the following years. Around 100,000 people are suffering chronic and debilitating illnesses for which treatment is largely ineffective.

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01/01/2004
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Clouds of injustice: Bhopal disaster 20 years on

More than 7,000 people died within a matter of days when toxic gases leaked from a chemical plant in Bhopal, India in December 1984. Since then, exposure to the toxins has resulted in the deaths of a further 15,000 people as well as chronic and debilitating illnesses for thousands of others. The plant site has not been cleaned up so toxic wastes continue to pollute

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