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...organic farms produced just as much corn and soybeans as conventional farms. While they required more labor, the cost was more than offset by savings in commercial nitrogen, insecticides and herbicides. In Africa, where labor is cheap and capital scarce, the benefits would be magnified. According to Indian environmentalist Vandana Shiva, past green revolutions boosted production of wheat and rice at the expense of other food. Using land for cash crops, she argues, actually decreased total food production. "You're losing because you're measuring only the single commodity," Shiva says...
...determining restrictions to web access, Herdict coordinators said, since sites frequently go down for technical reasons. By generating data from several different countries and comparing access, Herdict can begin to isolate instances of state censorship. Recently, the Syrian government blocked access to the Arabic version of Wikipedia, said Vandana Aneja, a Herdict coordinator. By comparing access in several Arabic nations, it became clear that the malfunction was not accidental, but rather government interference with the Internet. Herdict plans to launch Arabic and Chinese-language versions of the Web site to reach users in those parts of the world most affected...
...claims India is without troubles, but we're working to fix them. Unfortunately, Robinson does not see the opportunities in each challenge and the enormous impatience of 1 billion people seething to take the country forward. We are doing it on our terms and in our time. Vandana Chatterjee, Herzliya Pituach, Israel...
...claims India is without troubles, but we're working to fix them. Unfortunately, Robinson does not see the opportunities in each challenge and the enormous impatience of 1 billion people seething to take the country forward. We are doing it on our terms and in our time. Vandana Chatterjee, HERZLIYA PITUACH, ISRAEL...
...hailed from Nithari and were victims of a serial killer. Residents of the slum had repeatedly warned the police that a murderer appeared to be operating in the area, and distraught parents say they had implored the authorities to help search for their missing children-only to be rebuffed. Vandana Sarkar, whose 20-year-old daughter Pinky disappeared on Oct. 5, says she was told by police that Pinky had "probably just taken up with a man," despite the fact that she had a baby at home. When Aloki Halder's 13-year-old child Bina went missing in March...