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Seeds being sown by Kai Thota workers. Kai Thota's model ensures that women farmers get a consistent source of income, while ensuring healthy soil ecosystems and promoting local biodiversity. Image courtesy of Kai Thota.

Centring women in climate-resilient farming

Sharmila Vaidyanathan 15 Jan 2026
A field of Jeera Phool, a variety of black rice. Image by Ashwini Kumar Shukla.

Tribal farmers trace tradition to survive climate variabilities

Ashwini Kumar Shukla 11 Dec 2025
The team at Delícias Quilombolas, a family-run food stall that drew some of the longest queues in the COP30 Blue Zone in Belém. Image by Manish Chandra Mishra.

Local Brazilian producers shape the menu at COP30

Manish Chandra Mishra 19 Nov 2025
A Tetragonula iridipennis bee. Image by Ramesh Kunnappully via Wikimedia Commons (CC BY-SA 4.0).

New study identifies stingless bees fit for polyhouse pollination 

Arathi Menon 1 Jul 2025

Churpi from mithun milk could boost farmer incomes

Kasturi Das 13 Jun 2025

Farmers demand separate minimum support price for natural farming products

Vishal Kumar Jain 21 May 2025
A finger millet farm in Telangana. Image by Kavali Chandrakanth KCK via Wikimedia Commons.

More climate literacy and diversification could help tribal millet farmers adapt to impacts

Simrin Sirur 26 Feb 2025
Nagaland activist Seno Tsuhah

[Interview] How a Nagaland activist is reviving traditional practices to combat climate change

Angana Chakrabarti 10 Feb 2025
adiya women paddy edible greens

Reviving forgotten wild edibles from paddy fields

Sharmila Vaidyanathan 7 Feb 2025

Climate change-induced pest outbreak in sugarcane fields impact quality of jaggery

Vishal Kumar Jain 28 Jan 2025

Your Environment This Week: Tigers in the hood, indigenous cattle, Rooftop farming

Mongabay India 29 Nov 2024
A view of the micro-arboretum from atop the hillock within the boundary of the plot in Erode district. Image by T. Ramakrishnan.

[Commentary] From fallow to forest: Letting nature regenerate

T. Ramakrishnan 17 Oct 2024

Can organic farmers’ markets encourage chemical-free farming?

Arathi Menon 15 Oct 2024
Cacao beans drying at Grandpa's Farm, Karnataka Image by Naveenakrishna Shastry.

Indian farmers choose cocoa amid global shortage

Rashi Goel 1 Oct 2024
Farmer distributes fertiliser in the farm. Image by EqualStock IN via Pexels (CC).

[Commentary] Challenges in scaling natural farming with bio-input resource centres

Joshua Lobo, M. Manjula 15 Aug 2024

Rising temperatures alter insect-crop interactions and impact agricultural productivity

Sharmila Vaidyanathan 7 May 2024

Say cheese! Traditional pastoralists embrace innovation with artisanal cheese

Azera Parveen Rahman 25 Dec 2023

Kerala farmers go bananas over diversity

Arathi Menon 20 Dec 2023

Reviving anyat millet to reconnect a community with its culinary roots

Sanskrita Bharadwaj 18 Dec 2023

Adivasis of Kerala’s Attappadi hills revive millet cultivation to preserve a fading tradition 

Max Martin 7 Dec 2023