Keya Acharya
BANGALORE, Mar 16 2011 (IPS) – Several incinerator facilities that were supposed to turn waste into energy have proven to be white elephants that are now adding to the country s pollution woes, instead of alleviating them.
Massive waste-to-energy plant subsidies are ruining the waste management field in India, said Almitra Patel, a civil engineer from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology in Boston. Companies are now using these subsidies to set up plants that fail.
Solid waste experts are alarmed these facilities which failed to work in the 1980s and 1990s continue to exist.
Waste-to-energy (WTE) plants, are releasing toxic fumes because wastes are not being burned properly. Waste incineration technology controversial in western countries i…
Ranjit Devraj
NEW DELHI, Jun 15 2011 (IPS) – Cooperation between India and Brazil in pharmaceuticals and medical biotechnology has begun to falter, because Indian authorities would rather collaborate with western counterparts than those in developing countries, new research shows.
As a result, cooperation between the two countries, once touted as capable of solving public health problems in the developing world, has failed to come up with marketable products.
The study by the Research and Information System for Developing Countries (RIS), a publicly funded think tank based in New Delhi, cited as a reason for product failure the lingering perception in concerned Indian ministries and departments that collaboration with the North (referring to developed countries) is mu…
Processing baby vegetables at Sidemane Farm in Swaziland. An EU grant helped local farmers to buy equipment and get training in business management and marketing. Credit: Mantoe Phakathi/IPS
May 5 2016 (IPS) – As the World Farmers Organization meets for its annual conference in Zambia to promote policies that strengthen this critical sector, IPS looks at how farmers across the globe are tackling the interconnected challenges of climate change, market fluctuations, water and land manageme…
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Meeting of the Working Group on the National Mental Health Strategic Plan, January 2020
DHAKA, Bangladesh, Oct 28 2021 (IPS) – Mental health and treating mental health conditions involves not only treating an individual’s ability to manage their thoughts, emotions, behaviors, and interactions with others, but also ensuring that the social, cultural, economic, political, and environmental conditions are in place through effective national policies, social protections, adequate living standards, working conditions, community social support, and a tiered system of care through a robust network of health services. In Banglad…