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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
Image shows a display of seed crops against a white background

Thirunelly’s seed festival celebrates traditional climate-resilient seeds and farm produce

Max Martin 20 Mar 2023

Habitat preservation in the Western Ghats can help enhance biodiversity in the hotspot

Archita Bhatta 17 Mar 2023

[Explainer] Why is 2023 the International Year of Millets? What do we achieve by celebrating such years?

Mahima Jain 10 Mar 2023

Natural farming methods help the ‘climate-smart’ villages of MP brave climate impacts

Manish Chandra Mishra 3 Mar 2023
Crops raided by wild boars in Kaziranga. Photo by Nabarun Guha.

Farmers in Kaziranga demand timely, sufficient compensation for the crop raids by wildlife

Nabarun Guha 17 Feb 2023

India gains global prominence in agrochemical production; questions remain on polluting nature of industries

Supriya Vohra 8 Feb 2023

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 and Kartik Chandramouli 9 Dec 2022

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

Arathi Menon 1 Dec 2022