World Resources Institute

12.03.2004 "The world no longer has the luxury of time in achieving stability and security for the global climate system," warns the World Resources Institute in a statement issued in the run-up to next week's tenth anniversary of ratification of the Kyoto Protocol. During the past ten years greenhouse gas emissions have risen by 11 percent.

10.11.2003 A large number of farmers in rural India are breathing a little bit easier these days. For decades, they have been locked into a government-organized trading scheme that nearly ensures they get fleeced by the middlemen when they sell their grains at auction. But now that's changing.

05.11.2003 1.5 million farmers in 11,000 Indian villages have access to a wired computer--provided and maintained by a nationwide grain trading corporation--enabling them to follow price trends, deal directly with companies to get the highest possible prices for their crop, and exchange information about growing techniques and more.