While most media images dwell on forest fires, indiscriminate logging and the resulting loss of species, 'Out of the Forest' checks out a range of environmentally sound forest products. Not only are the products good for the trees but also they're good for the pockets of the forest-dwellers- generating jobs in regions where there are few other ways to earn money. In Peru 'Hands On' travels deep into the Amazon to see how the Aguaruna people harvest Cat's Claw, a medicinal bark. In Madagascar the secrets of perfect vanilla are revealed. While in Ecuador we see how a fair trade organisation has trumped thePepa de Ora or Bean of Gold market to become the number one exporter of cocoa.

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The latest UN assessment is that 1.1 billion people live without access to clean drinking water and more than twice that number is denied hygienic means of sanitation. The same assessment found that while progress has been achieved in the 1990s in meeting international targets, the increase in the numbers of the absolute poor had all but wiped out the advances. Earth Report goes to Sao Paolo, Nairobi and Manila to report on cheap community-operated schemes that offer new hope.

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Environmentalist Anil Agarwal and noted Danish journalist and writer Knud Vilby discuss the issue of air pollution, governance and how we move ahead. 7500 people die every year because of air pollution. How do policy makers look at this problem? Do they stress on ecology, or on economy? Development in a poor country, like India, is not cheap. The film records the initial stages of CSE’s Right To Clean Air campaign.

Duration: 32 Minutes
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‘Out of the Forest’ checks out a range of environmentally sound forest products deep inside the Amazon to see how the Aguaruna people harvest Cat’s Claw, a medicinal bark, reveals the secrets of perfect vanilla in Madagascar and how a
fair trade organisation in Ecuador became the number one exporter of cocoa.



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This publication documents traditions, practices technologies and policies of water harvesting in the country. It also assesses state government efforts to deal with drought. The book has a clear message for the thirsty times ahead: Water must be made everybody's business.

Authors :Anil Agarwal, Indira Khurana, Sunita Narain
Pages : 456
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Publication : Centre for Science and Environment
Format: Paper Back
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This report analyses the little understood relationship between development and environment, the impact of environmental degradation on individual, social groups, tribals and nomads. In many ways, this voluntary report on the state of the environment in India is a unique document. It is the product of an enormous participatory effort. A range of voluntary agencies and individuals interested in environmental issues have contributed their best efforts towards making this report.

Authors : Anil Agarwal, Kalpana Sharma, Ravi Chopra
Pages : 192
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This report remains one of the few chronicles of the ecological change taking place in the Indo-Gangetic plains - India's most densely populated area. Focussing on the recurrent problem of floods in this region and describes the nature of challenge posed by ecologically sound development and suggests new ways of looking at policies.

Authors : Anil Agarwal, Sunita Narain
Pages : 167
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Dying Wisdom: Rise, Fall and Potential of India's Traditional Water Harvesting System provides a comprehensive overview of India's millennia-old traditions of water harvesting. This book triggered a nationwide interest in community-based water management.

Authors : Anil Agarwal, Sunita Narain
Pages : 404
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This book presents a national overview of the startling array of challenges faced by India - including pollution and waste generation. The book demonstrates how all natural resources, from land and forests to water and biodiversity, are under immense pressure and in turn, compounded poverty. Rapid industrial, agricultural and urban development has led to alarming and ever-growing levels of pollution. The solution lies in good governance and the application of appropriate technological and management solutions as the nation inches towards higher rates of economic growth and social development.

Authors : Anil Agarwal, Srabani Sen, Sunita Narain
Pages : 696
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