farming practices
The deshi cow milk jinx

The indigenous cattle breed owners - poor farmers, herders and nomadic pastoralists who produce most of the milk - must find it beneficial.

Novel Initiative to help farmers’ families in distress

The cattle breed selected depends on the areas from where the beneficiaries hail from, to ensure better adaptability for the animals.

Organic farmers tap native cotton variety

Organic Farming enthusiasts in Perambalur (Tamil Nadu) are attempting to revive ‘karunganni’

बीजों की परंपरागत संस्कृति और खेती पद्धतियों से खाद्य सुरक्षा संभव (in Hindi)

स्थानीय मिटटी पानी के अनुकूल देशी बीजों की परम्परागत विविधता बिना पर्यावरण का नुक्सान किये लोगों की खाद्य सुरक्षा सुनिश्चित कर सकती है

Avoiding Airpocalypse: It’s Time to Move Beyond Quick Fixes and Tackle the Root Cause of Crisis

The fixation on economic growth indicators has blinded our decision-makers to the enormous social and ecological damage such growth causes.

This Hyderabad-based organisation has helped over 2.5 lakh farmers through permaculture

Aranya Agricultural Alternatives is striving to achieve ecological and sustainable agricultural livelihoods through permaculture farming.

Niyamgiri tribe revive wild harvests after Vedanta victory

Increasing farmers’ access to a variety of traditional seeds and planting materials will make them more resilient to climatic hazards.

Biodiversity plans go to the grassroots

Local bodies in Kerala will soon have a key role in biodiversity management.

On the Other Side of the Wall

"Look at this age- it’s the age of medicine- people, plants everything subsists on ‘dawai’ – it is an age of duplicity – it looks good from outside, empty from inside. "