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A tie-up that can go a long way in crop cultivation
While farmers get an input assistance of ₹5,000 per acre, the consumers get the farm yield.
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Can environment education save our planet?
A blend of knowledge, analytical skills and social and interpersonal skills together can help create future environment leaders.
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A rice, lost and found
The rice, endemic to Kerala, adapted to the salinity of the coastal areas. To survive the tides the plant grew taller - to 1.5 meters.
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Karnataka embarks on millet revolution, UAS shows the way
Processing at the University is comparatively cheap, and since there are no middlemen, farmers of Hyderabad-Karnataka save a lot.
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More Questions Than Answers: Is There Indeed an Alternate Development Paradigm?
Answers need to be pursued to transition from a peripheral intellectual wishful debate to mainstream positive action on the ground.
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Sustainability from the Global South
Educators must share how communities in the developing world manage environmental change — a Western bias limits progress, argues Harini Nagendra.
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Facing the future of development
These initiatives have stayed or even reversed rural-urban migration and attempted gender and caste justice without trashing the environment.
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मजदूरों के संघर्ष ने बोये उम्मीद के बीज (in Hindi)
जो ग्रामीण रोजगार के काम हो रहे हैं, जनता के समक्ष पूरी जानकारी रखी जाए - यहीं से सूचना के अधिकार की शुरूआत हुई।
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The Handmade Symposium
Part of the shift towards lesser dependence on machine technology - a planned, self-motivated and civilized way of rebuilding the current system.