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

Team 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 and 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

Food systems to feature in climate negotiations at COP28

Kundan Pandey 10 Nov 2023
A seller picking Rugra in a Mandi in Ranchi.

Production of rugra, a nutritious mushroom found in Jharkhand, impacted by weather changes

Vishal Kumar Jain 2 Nov 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

[Explainer] What is organic food? How do we identify organic products?

Irfan Shakeer, Priya Ranganathan 8 Jun 2023

Urban farms offer a fresh perspective on managing kitchen waste and nurturing a community

Saumitra Shinde 14 Nov 2022

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

Manjunatha G, Sandeep Hanchanale, Veena Srinivasan 4 Oct 2022

Climate resilient millets boost livelihood opportunities for Odisha’s tribal women

Aishwarya Mohanty 16 Aug 2022
A farmer and her water buffalo in a paddy field.

[Interview] Chukki Nanjundaswamy shares what it takes to train farmers in agroecology

Anna Lappé 8 Aug 2022