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Environment and Ecology
Securing Livelihoods – The Paderu Story
Overcoming the challenges of rainfed agriculture by cultivating diversified, robust, climate resilient and culturally entrenched millets
Food and Water
Collectivisation of Water
Farmers in Chellapur of Kurnool district have shared their groundwater with their fellow villagers through a groundwater grid
Environment and Ecology
This Family Did Not Send Their Children to School, but Taught Them by Creating a Forest
They built check-dams in the watershed, dug percolation-pits and mulched heavily to prevent soil erosion and to conserve water.
Food and Water
1420 Varieties, 25 Years: Meet the Man Rescuing India’s Rice Diversity From Extinction
"We go the extra mile so that the farmer who takes these seeds takes home the same variety that I conserved 25 years ago. "
Food and Water
Drought-resistant crops in focus at monsoon seed festival
The festival has brought 32 seed saver groups from across Karnataka State together
Food and Water
Schools turn nutrition gardens in Mizoram district
To make every school, Anganwadi, child care institution and hostel in Lawngtlai self-sufficient in local fruits and vegetables
Economics and Technologies
Youth of northeast India use films to tell stories about their environment and communities
The use of a visual medium helps transcend the differences in language across the northeast region
Settlements and Transport
Rolling back the architect
"Each village community is different, so with each village the approach had to change."