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Food and Water
Natural substitute for fertilisers
Cow dung, cow urine, molasses, besan, and soil from an anthill go to make an excellent pest repellant and fertiliser for Koraput fields!
Food and Water
Millets are returning to our fields and plates
Women are the custodians of seed diversity, including millets. Seed selection, an important part of the process, is also mostly done by women.
Economics and Technologies
Tech that saves 35 percent of water to grow paddy
Can water consumption for cultivating paddy, as also emission of greenhouse gases, be reduced in 15 districts of Telangana?
Food and Water
How Ancient Grains and a Seed Bank Turned Life Around for Rural Women
Why do farmers need to organise a Beej Utsav?
Health and Hygiene
Café Positive is run by a crew of HIV+ men and women
What is the agenda of activist Ghosh, who has come up with the idea that has taken form as Cafe Positive?
Energy
Gutter gas fueled tea boosts chaiwala’s livelihood
Can a Chai stall be run with Zero expenditure on Energy?
Food and Water
Scientist Returns to Promote Organic Farming In His Village
A true son of the soil who is incorporating his refined medical wisdom to transform the dynamics of rural farming
Livelihoods
Pride of Place
The transformation of a waste-picker's dark and ill-ventilated house into a bright, airy and safe home.
Livelihoods
The peacocks of Yeola
... keeping alive a centuries-old legacy, while innovating to keep pace with changing tastes.