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Increasing carbon dioxide is making our food less nutritious

Sharmila Vaidyanathan 15 Aug 2023

Ruza, a traditional water harvesting system for the water-scarce mountains

Barasha Das 11 Aug 2023

Ecosystem-based adaptation takes nature-based, people-centric approach to agriculture

Arathi Menon 9 Aug 2023

[Commentary] How grassroots-led natural farming at the landscape scale can support communities and heal the planet

Minhaj Ameen 8 Aug 2023
In the Kanchipuram district of Tamil Nadu, India, rural villagers are planting a new crop of rice paddy.

Community-based natural farming outshines other farming practices in Andhra Pradesh

Kundan Pandey 31 Jul 2023
Image shows a man walking in a rice field with a windmill in the background

New report estimates district-wise crop residue potential for bioenergy production

Pranav Sinha 17 Jul 2023
Biogas fumes generated from waste water produced after treatment of sago. Photo by Laasya Shekhar/Mongabay.

High capital investment and poor access to subsidies, a drawback for biogas in sago industry

Laasya Shekhar 5 Jul 2023
Some farmers say that they burn the stubble to keep the fields ready for the next crop in a short period of time. Photo by Manish Chandra Mishra/Mongabay.

Madhya Pradesh ranks second in India in stubble burning, farmers unaware of government schemes

Shailesh Shrivastava 28 Jun 2023

We didn’t start the fire? Speculations over cause of Goa forest fires continue; state plans recovery

Noopur Bhandiwad 16 Jun 2023
A busy day in Pune's APMC with boxes of mangoes arriving from Kaonkan and Karnataka. Photo by Hiren Kumar Bose.

Unseasonal rain, temperature variations affect Alphonso yield and increase prices in Maharashtra

Hiren Kumar Bose 15 Jun 2023

Nepal comes next in line to Sri Lanka to debate exporting ‘problematic’ monkeys

Abhaya Raj Joshi 16 May 2023

RBI report examines implications of climate change on economic growth and financial stability

Kundan Pandey 11 May 2023

This year’s severe heatwave, a threat to the people and food supply in Bangladesh

Mohammad Al-Masum Molla 8 May 2023

Environmentalists denounce Sri Lanka’s talks of exporting 100,000 crop-raiding macaques

Malaka Rodrigo 4 May 2023

Urban and peri-urban farming can play a small role in reducing carbon footprint

Mohit M. Rao 21 Apr 2023
Malnourished cows in Chattisgarh.

Malnutrition affects the health and productivity of cattle in Chhattisgarh

Alok Prakash Putul 19 Apr 2023
Conducting fieldwork in Fakim Community Reserve with a local resident Alemba. Photo from Joli Rumi Borah.

[Interview] Conservation scientist Joli Rumi Borah on integrating traditional knowledge in research

Sahana Ghosh 13 Apr 2023
A view of damaged wheat field in Punjab's Moga district. Photo by special arrangement

After being hit by heat last year, wheat crop suffers from excessive, untimely rains this year

Vivek Gupta 11 Apr 2023
A paddy field in Kerala. Photo by Anne Roberts/Flickr.

With increasing climate-related threats, farmers gear up for adaptation

Kundan Pandey 4 Apr 2023
Bhuten Saikia in his vegetable garden in Rahmaria. Photo by Bondita Baruah.

Abrupt floods and drought-like situations in Assam disrupt farming practices

Bondita Baruah 30 Mar 2023