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Environment and Ecology
Kutch’s Wagad or Kala cotton: Back from the (almost) dead
Desi cotton could replace a majority of the area that is currently under American cotton, in light of climate change-related weather vagaries...
Food and Water
This Chemistry Professor’s Fight for Arsenic-free Water in Villages of Assam is Slowly Bearing Fruit
More and more schools adopt this technology, train teachers and ask students to build Arsiron Nilogon as science projects
Economics and Technologies
Rearing goats empower women in rural Bihar
The women said that income from goats was theirs and they decided its usage.
Learning and Education
Centre For Learning
An environment that nurtures learning as a living, vital process of inquiry
Livelihoods
From ‘Tent Nazir’ to ‘RTI Nazir’: Towards governance accountability in Kashmir, India
His passion for making the system accountable, through the dogged use of the RTI Act, takes up much of his time.
Environment and Ecology
Reviving indigenous seeds: A silent revolution in India’s rice growing states
The silent seed revolution has only begun, and Nel Jayaraman’s efforts in Tamil Nadu have triggered many seed festivals across Tamil Nadu.
Environment and Ecology
Pepper helps Rabhas to live with tuskers
"The thorns of lemon discourage them and of course they do not eat pepper (unlike banana and jackfruit)”
Economics and Technologies
महिलाओं की मेहनत रंग लाई (in Hindi)
इससे महिलाएं आत्मनिर्भर हुई हैं, उनके परिवार की आर्थिक स्थिति मजबूत हुई है, बच्चों की शिक्षा बेहतर हुई है।
Environment and Ecology
The barefoot hydrogeologists of the Himalayan regions
"I have seen the fracture when we built the naula" said Chachaji. He then proceeded to add details to the rough sketch on the board.