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Ecologically-based rodent management |
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Written by Tim Chancellor
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Saturday, 19 January 2008 |
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Rodents cause multiple problems for people in rural areas. They
destroy crops, contaminate stored food, damage buildings and
possessions and spread diseases. Unfortunately it is extremely
difficult to control rodents effectively. As a result, people are
often discouraged and come to accept the adverse impacts of rodent
activity.
In recent years rodent control has been largely based on the use of
acute poisons. However, rodenticides have several disadvantages and
researchers have demonstrated that an ecologically-based rodent
management (EBRM) strategy is more sustainable. EBRM may be cheaper
than poisons in the long-run and it is also more
environmentally-friendly. Dr Steve Belmain of the Natural Resources
Institute (UK) has published an article on EBRM in the latest issue of
the LEISA magazine (December 2007) which focuses on ecological pest
management. He describes the collaboration between NRI, the
Comilla-based NGO Association for Integrated Development, the
Bangladesh Rice Research Institute, and CSIRO in Australia.
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Telecentre on Wheels: a fresh vista for information |
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Written by Jhulan Ghose & Sanghamitra Majumdar
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Thursday, 22 November 2007 |
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Telecentre on Wheels is a new project of Change Initiatives with the
support of UNESCO and WBREDA (West Bengal
Renewable Energy Development Agency) that was launched
on November 6, 2007 at Ghoragacha in West Bengal's Nadia district.
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Telecentre on Wheels (TOW) will cover 4 villages:
Ghoragacha, Madandanga, Kantabelia and Teligacha. Selected community members
will be given training on basic computing so that they can access information
in the local language, Bengali, from the computer in the areas of health,
education, agriculture, human right and law, and build a group of e-literate
volunteers from each village. They can also post questions on forum and the
volunteers will try to address the queries.
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Nabanna: The Road From Marketing To Empowerment |
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Written by Sanghamitra Majumdar
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Friday, 12 October 2007 |
Some women of a rural region in West Bengal are adopting nifty marketing strategies in their quest for empowerment through the generation of steady income-earning opportunities.
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| Suchetana, or consciousness, is a micro-enterprise in Ghoragacha, which is around two hours' journey by bus and road from Calcutta. For Rozina, Sadhana and the others of Suchetana, the challenge was to find buyers for their jelly made from the guava in their fields. |
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