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Soil biodiversity emerged as a global agenda of research and management only since last decade when the United Nations Convention on Biological Diversity (UN-CBD) set out a programme of work on agricultural biodiversity. Agricultural development approaches targeting high levels of biodiversity, efficient of use of local resources and optimization of multiple service/functions (e.g. food/feed production, climate regulation, resilience and clean water supply) of ...
United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC), Convention on Biological Diversity (CBD) and Inter-governmental panel on climate change (IPCC) laid down a global strategy of saving the mankind from the threats posed by changing climate and loss of biodiversity. These changes are confounded with other global changes in biophysical social economic political environment. Harmonization of environmental, economic and social development trajectories, ...
To resolve the agrarian question a complex experimentation of tremendous historical significance is being carried out in the Indian rural society. From the view point of mass politics of rural India the land question continues to assume increasing significance. This can be clearly seen, even now in the peasant unrest looming large in different parts of rural India. In this context it is necessary to reopen the debate on why land reforms should still be considered ...
In the increasingly complex world of modern journalism, the newsperson has to have all the basic aptitudes, skills and sensibilities at his fingertips. The need of the hour is a handy reference book that brings together all the basic approaches, sensibilities and techniques of the newspapers office. The present publication is one such work which will be of immense use not only to the aspiring journalist but also the practicing newsperson and the social ...