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Concrete structures occupy cropland. Rapid urbanisation, development projects, and population growth have also played significant roles in soil degradation.

[Commentary] Soil degradation in India spells doom for millions

Ramesh Menon 25 Oct 2023

[Obituary] Remembering M. S. Swaminathan

S. Gopikrishna Warrier 2 Oct 2023

Architect of India’s Green Revolution, agricultural scientist M.S. Swaminathan passes away

Kundan Pandey 2 Oct 2023
Image shows a man standing in a straw field behind a fire

Behind Punjab’s smoke screen, Madhya Pradesh’s stubble burning problem goes unnoticed

Shailesh Shrivastava 21 Aug 2023

Madhya Pradesh farmers burn the stubble from rabi harvest, to grow a third crop before kharif

Rakesh Kumar Malviya 16 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
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
People collecting wood in Uttarakhand. Representative image. Photo by Ashutosh Rawat/ Wikimedia Commons.

[Commentary] A decade after relocation, the lives of Van Gujjars still lack stability and security

Akshay Chettri and Neema P. Broome 29 Jun 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
Bajra harvested at Madgyal, Jath taluka. Photo from Samata Farmers Group.

How a drought-prone village in Maharashtra attained agricultural success with millets

Hiren Kumar Bose 26 May 2023

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

Mohit M. Rao 21 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

[Interview] Scientist Ruth DeFries on deforestation: There isn’t one driver, there’s a different context in different places

Sahana Ghosh and Kartik Chandramouli 7 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
Aditi Mukherji interacting with farmers during her visit in northern Bangladesh. Photo by IWMI.

[Interview] IPCC author Aditi Mukherji on energy transition in agriculture and water security

Sahana Ghosh 22 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