Down To Earth Magazine - May 01, 2020

In this issue

COVID-19 - FAR FROM REACH - As countries rush to attain self-sufficiency in drug manufacturing, market dynamics might be difficult to overcome

Reluctant game-changers

Fast-food industry has been playing a critical role in the fight against drug resistance in developed countries. Why is it dragging its feet over ending antibiotic misuse in chicken in India?

8 mins

Silence grips forest

Communities and traders fail to earn from non-timber forest produce despite exemption from lockdown rules ISHAN KUKRETI NEW DELHI

6 mins

ANOTHER CURVE

The world witnesses a rare urban-to-rural exodus amid lockdowns and loss of livelihoods. Will our villages be able to support the millions of people again who had migrated due to distress conditions at home?

6 mins

THE BIG PHARMA MESS

The pandemic has exposed a serious fault line in the global pharmaceutical supply chain, created by an industry that flourished by putting profit before public health. Amid shortage of life-saving drugs, countries now scramble for self-sufficiency. But circumventing market dynamics may not be easy

10+ mins

BIG OPPORTUNITY FOR INDIA

India can replace China as the world’s preferred source of pharmaceutical ingredients

3 mins

Between A Cure And Access

As researchers scramble to come up with therapies to treat COVID-19, patents could keep the drugs out of reach for many

6 mins

MIMICKING MARS

A COMBINATION OF EXTREMITIES IN ETHIOPIA PRESENTS CONDITIONS MOST HOSTILE FOR LIFE THAN ANYWHERE ON EARTH. IT HAS TRIGGERED, YET AGAIN, A DEBATE OVER THE POSSIBILITY OF LIFE ON MARS

7 mins

Turmoil in the floodplains

IN THIS EXCERPT FROM THE UNQUIET RIVER, ARUPJYOTI SAIKIA NARRATES THE TENSIONS THAT ERUPTED BETWEEN ASSAM’S PEASANTS AND MIGRANTS FROM EAST BENGAL IN THE BEGINNING OF THE CENTURY

4 mins

“No single religious narrative has been able to assert claim over the Brahmaputra”

THE UNQUIET RIVER BY ARUPJYOTI SAIKIA TRACES THE TUMULTUOUS TRANSFORMATION OF THE BRAHMAPUTRA OVER THE CENTURIES. SAIKIA SPOKE TO ISHAN KUKRETI

3 mins

Damned by old age

Ageing dams and shrinking canal command area are the blind spots in the management of impending water and food crises

4 mins

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Down To Earth is a fortnightly magazine published by the Society for Environmental Comm, a non-profit research and advocacy organization based in New Delhi, India. It is one of the most respected environmental magazines in the country.

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