OpinionAgricultural Research in Bangladesh: From Research to Real-World Solutions
Why Bangladesh needs more farmer-centred, field-based, data-driven and impact-oriented agricultural research
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Opinion: India's climate debate needs Gandhi's idea of enough, not only cleaner technology
In a Down To Earth column, P Divya argues that targets for solar, electric vehicles and green hydrogen should be matched by demand-side policies on sufficiency, repair and fair restraint by affluent households.
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Opinion: Steve Kay on falling US cattle prices, packing-plant raids and beef imports
In his Kay's Cuts column for Beef Central, analyst Steve Kay says cash cattle prices fell 15 percent from June while packers regained margins, and that an immigration operation in Kansas cut a week's slaughter sharply.
HealthA surgeon who thought her breast lump was harmless on what cancer taught her
Sharmin Akter, an associate professor of plastic surgery at NITOR, writes that she left her own lump after a reassuring FNAC; cancer-free after seven months of treatment, she now insists on core biopsy and a tumour board.
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Zakat's two neglected categories fit today's displaced, argues M Kabir Hassan
Zakat in Bangladesh could reach Tk 20,000-25,000 crore a year, yet the government fund takes in about Tk 10 crore; Professor M Kabir Hassan argues for using the ibn al-sabil and fi sabilillah categories for the displaced, with institutional reform.
OpinionOpinion: A cattle vet's list of beef farm upgrades worth the money
In a Manitoba Co-operator column, veterinarian Roy Lewis argues that with strong cattle returns, producers should invest in calving cameras, better water, handling systems, vaccine coolers, fencing and animal-welfare products.
OpinionNo escape even for non-smokers: Aditya Ghosh on the toll of secondhand smoke
Writing in Kolkata's Sangbad Pratidin, essayist Aditya Ghosh says about 444 million people in India were exposed to others' tobacco smoke in 2023, and smoking in public places can no longer be shrugged off as a petty offence.
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Opinion: a red warning label on food packets could be India's next health tool
Writing in Down To Earth, Monika Arora, William Joe and Tina Rawal back FSSAI's proposed red hexagon warning for packaged foods high in sugar, salt and saturated fat, and ask that it go further.
OpinionWhat Inchanga's agroecology hub leaves behind, by Siphesihle Qange
Seriti Institute's farm programme lead says the hub near Durban trained 697 people and 171 farmers, but its real test is what farmers, cooperatives and markets can keep going once the partners leave.
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How to recognise gaslighting and get out: a column by Shahana Huda Ranjana
Communication specialist and columnist Shahana Huda Ranjana writes in Bangla Tribune that gaslighting, breaking someone's confidence in order to control them, runs through marriages, families and workplaces, and sets out how to recognise it and escape it.
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Soumya Swaminathan: Maharashtra's law makes landless women farmers visible
From 2 October Maharashtra begins issuing Women Farmers Certificates that recognise women in farming as farmers without land titles; Soumya Swaminathan says joint land titles must follow.
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Opinion: A strong El Nino is pushing crop insurers to retreat from high-risk regions
In an AgriBusiness Global column, EarthDaily's Andres Umana writes that insurers face a surge of demand just as losses are expected, and are capping exposure, tightening cut-off dates and turning to satellite data.
OpinionDemeke Mekonnen: count early-childhood nutrition in the Human Development Index
Ethiopia's former deputy prime minister argues that nutrition in the first 1,000 days of life should be built into the way the UN measures development, using survey data countries already collect.
OpinionColumn: Native students are writing the next chapter of Indigenous agriculture
Former National FFA President Bre Holbert argues that Indigenous agriculture is not only history, pointing to the Tribal Agriculture Fellowship and the Native students it now supports.