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Nourishing soils of Kashmir’s karewas crumble under infrastructure

Amir Bin Rafi, Shaz Syed 27 Jan 2023

The role of urban foraging in building climate-resilient food systems

Sharmila Vaidyanathan 26 Jan 2023

Punjab sticks to paddy amid depleting groundwater

Vivek Gupta 24 Jan 2023
Channu Lal Rajput of Thekua village in Sitapur district of Uttar Pradesh had taken 2.5 acres of land on contract but the crop suffered heavy damage due to heavy rain. Like, many other tenant farmers Rajput will not get any compensation for his loss.

Landless, tenant farmers miss out on compensation for crop loss by weather events

Arvind Shukla 20 Jan 2023
Asia's largest Compressed Biogas (CBG) plant. The Plant with a total capacity of 33.23 ton CBG per day has been operationalized at village Bhuttal Kalan (Sangrur) in April, 2022. Photo by Invest Punjab/Government of Punjab

Lack of market support for bio-manure hindering growth of compressed biogas plants

Manish Kumar 20 Jan 2023
Wet fields and destroyed fields post heavy rainfalls. Photo by Alexy Thiyam.

Manipur farmers blame institutional failures for low yield and demand compensation

Donald Takhell 6 Jan 2023
Tenant farmers washing their produce in Chilla khadar area of Delhi

The unrecognised urban farmers of Delhi are caught in conflict over land

Aakiz Farooq 5 Jan 2023

How an equitable model of irrigation is changing this drought-prone Maharashtra region

Supriya Vohra 30 Dec 2022

Drought conditions force Marathwada farmers to migrate for work as sugarcane cutters

Supriya Vohra 20 Dec 2022
Image shows a man standing in a sugarcane field with his arm raised

India aims to go big on sugarcane-based ethanol, but water intensity of the crop throws up concerns

Supriya Vohra 14 Dec 2022

[Podcast] Imprints: Lake and archive diving with Atreyee Bhattacharya

Sahana Ghosh, Kartik Chandramouli 9 Dec 2022

Making sense of rainfall changes in Karnataka’s coffee estates through old records

Arathi Menon 1 Dec 2022
As per the Ministry of Agriculture and Farmers Welfare, 40% of the agriculture in India is dependent on rain. The constant variations in rainfall pattern will impact the sector and India's food production. Photo by Leo Sebastian (IRRI-Climate Change, Agriculture and Food Security)/Flickr

A year of extreme weather events has weighed heavy on India’s agricultural sector

Vivek Gupta 7 Nov 2022

New approach of Indian monsoon estimation to account for rainfall variations

Archita Bhatta 3 Nov 2022

Coconut-based integrated farming could help sequester carbon, improve farm productivity: study

T. V. Padma 2 Nov 2022

Rajasthan is getting wetter and it’s not good news for the desert ecology

Azera Parveen Rahman 21 Oct 2022

Farmers continue protests against proposed IIT campus in Goa

Pamela D'Mello 20 Oct 2022

Stubble burning is back, smothering north India with concerns for the upcoming winter

Vivek Gupta 13 Oct 2022
A Pokkali field in Ezhikkara. Photo by Kavya Sanjaya.

[Commentary] Pokkali, a GI-tagged rice variety, could be on the verge of extinction

Amalendu Jyotishi, Gummadi Sridevi, Kavya Sanjaya 5 Oct 2022

[Commentary] Is agroecological farming a solution for rainfed degraded land?

Manjunatha G, Sandeep Hanchanale, Veena Srinivasan 4 Oct 2022