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Five months after the infamous Jarawa Video incident featuring scantily clad Jarawa tribal women allegedly dancing for tourists in return for food and money, the Central Government finally acted on the matter by approving the proposed amendments in the Andaman and Nicobar Islands (Protection of Aboriginal Tribes) Regulation, 1956.

Aamir Khan, recently on his show “Satyamev Jayate” spoke about the harmful effects of pesticides and requested the Central and the state governments to adopt organic farming method. Waking up to the cries of farmers, Aamir has put forward a solution which surely will bring back life to our agricultural fields.

This 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.

The 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.

Satyamev 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.

Organiser: 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.

Organisers: 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.

Directed and produced by Swati Dandekar, 'Water and a City' traces the journey of water through Bangalore using a succession of haunting im

Organiser: 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.

This 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.