The unsilenced valley
The Bhils of Madhya Pradesh are armed with a simple, effective and practical system of irrigation to mend the ruin inflicted by the state's …
Ungreening the revolution
A programme initiated with much drum-beating, the green revolution has not just backfired but even eroded traditional systems of farming. Farmers …
Windowdressing forestry
Applause and international funding of a forestry project greenwashes the cruel realities of the people living there
Of tribes and trees
CONTESTED DOMAINS Akhileshwar Pathak Sage Publications
The view from below
For down and out tribal women, global developmental extravagnzas mean nothing but rhetoric
Future in the past
FUTURE OF PROGRESS: REFLECTIONS ON ENVIRONMENT AND DEVELOPMENT Edited by Vandana Shiva, Helena Norberg-Hodge, Edward Goldsmith and Martin Khor …
Wood cuts
THE FUTURE OF WORLD FORESTS: THEIR USE AND CONSERVATION Edited by Kilaparti Ramakrishna and George M Woodwell Publisher: Natraj Publishers, …
The range of rage
How the villagers of Pujara Ki Chowki foiled hamhanded attempts of the state forest department to force-start a plantation on a forest already …
The joke's on the panchayat
The recent panchayat elections in Madhya Pradesh was the latest edition of the mock ritual of decentralisation
