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Rakesh Agarwal
Rakesh Agarwal
Articles by the Author
1996-3-31
Despair and devastation stare India's artisans in their face, as resource crunch, modern
civilisation and government apathy combine in an onslaught on their teetering citadels.
Down To Earth presents an exhaustive analysis
1997-6-15
The benefits of a watershed develqpment programme in Anantapur fail to trickle down to poor farmers
1997-4-15
N K Sanghi , director, National Institute of Agriculture Extension and Management in Hyderabad (Andhra Pradesh), has been advocating a modified concept of watershed management that addresses the issue of equity. Sanghi, who spoke to Rakesh Agarwal , has done extensive research in the field of indigenous water and land resource management practices. Major policy issues emerged out of this research, culminating in the new guidelines in watershed management issued by the Government of India in 1994
1997-4-15
Encouraged by their ninth century benevolent rulers, Gond landlords and villagers had set up an intricate and immensely useful network of katas , traditional water harvesting structures. But modern disinterest and apathy have served to decimate this valuable heritage in no time
1996-6-15
NGOs all over southern India are helping to revive the system of local medicinal plants and herbs, holding out the promise of not just cheaper and more effective healthcare for villagers, but also commercial profits
1996-3-31
Despair and devastation stare India's artisans in their face, as resource crunch, modern
civilisation and government apathy combine in an onslaught on their teetering citadels.
Down To Earth presents an exhaustive analysis
1996-3-31
The days when the word leper was almost an invective, and the disease itself considered a scourge, are over. Patients, voluntary workers and ordinary villagefolk are labouring shoulder to shoulder to, root it out through an eradication programme
1996-3-15
Will the National Alliance of People's Movements be a whiff of
Fresh air blowing in winds of change, reforming the way the country
views development?
1996-2-29
The micro-watershed development project in Maharashtra
has put a stop to what was earlier an annual ritual of
deserting the drought-prone villages of Marathwada by
their residents
1995-12-31
Urbane intellectuals join hands with proud Gond tribals in an unique exercise to chalk out planning and development in adivasi hamlets
1995-9-30
Local people in the arid Churu district of Rajasthan know how to store sweet rainwater for the scorching, parched summers
1995-8-15
Conventional politics breaks up the fiery spirit of an ideal self-sustaining forest community
1995-7-31
A lift irrigation system helps tribals in Gujarat fight the tyranny of the seasons
1995-7-15
Tribals in Orissa's Eastern Ghats range are giving up shifting cultivation and fiercely protecting their forests
1995-6-30
Proliferating grassroots level activity in Orissa is empowering villagers, taking them closer to a fairytale end to unending tales of poverty and exploitation
1995-5-15
A so-called farmer's cooperative fertiliser company is ruining agricultural land in Uttar Pradesh
1995-4-30
Backward Bihar villagers receive healthcare from barefoot 'first aid physicians'
1995-4-15
Can a pumpset metamorphose into a motor vehicle? Somewhere out there in Haryana,they call this smoke-belching, spit-and-gum contraption a Maruta
1995-3-15
A unique fishing cooperative in Bihar's Madhubani district boosts the confidence and economic independence of the local women
1995-2-28
A Delhi-based agency has improved the standard of living of a Himachal Pradesh village by providing it simple devices at subsidised rates
1995-1-31
Hill women, long deprived of any economic rights, have found their independent, confident voice in activities spurred by a welfare group
