Promised financial incentives for sale of city compost did not prove to be a game-changer in promoting its marketing and production
Jharkhand’s success story of fruit plantation under MGNREGA
Meghalaya farmer parliament: Will it help plug policy loopholes
Was there a victory for Monsanto in India's Supreme Court on a patent matter?
Mushroom-growing Elm trees can empower Barot village communities
Small innovations often occur at the grassroot level, and these may hold clues for local and regional-level solutions
India’s cow crisis: A rebuttal to Sunita Narain
Down To Earth's Editor wrote how it is brutal to kill India’s ancient Uber economy: PETA India director offers a ...
'Thinking Glocal to solve India's paddy-straw burning crisis'
Since we live in an increasingly globalised world, we must make an attempt to seek global solutions to our ...
Revolt of the rich and the poor
When a recent report says 26 people now own the same wealth as the world's poorest half and the ...
MGNREGA’s information system flawed, misguiding
The scheme's Management Information System destroys local accountability, promotes centralisation and administrative control and gives out wrong data
Promoting input-based enterprises to spread organic farming
Promotion around locally available options can be sustainable solution
Will contract farming law relieve agrarian distress?
Although the proposed law promises to alleviate the suffering of India’s farmers, it needs a research-backed approach
It's time we shift farmers' economic burden
Assured net income, including assured minimum support price for crops, can put an end to farmer suicide cases in ...
In poll-bound MP, Rajasthan, the cow finds space in manifestos, not cowsheds
Farmers are leaving their cattle and cowsheds are in a pitiable condition but they hardly figure in political parties' ...
The zero budget farming discord
There is unease over the crusader of natural farming, Subhash Palekar, for renaming the technique after himself
Green and golden Srikakulam
Several efforts are being made to turn Andhra Pradesh’s remote, coastal district green and empower tribals in the process
World Food Day: Preserving food diversity vital to achieve zero hunger by 2030
Increasing production of staple crops such as wheat, rice and maize cannot meet the rising food demand. That is ...
Farmers and smartphone politics
Can pre-poll sops like giving smart phones with internet connectivity to farmers increase farm income?
Farmer producer organisations need their very own Amul
Instead of encouraging them on paper, the government has to create a few model FPOs in the country and ...
Over 100 global experts to exchange ideas at 13th International Permaculture Convergence
The conference will bridge the gap between the small and the big farmers, and also bring to light the ...
Let the genes cross borders
National sovereignty over genetic resources could undermine food security
Fringe benefits taxed
Post-independence policies have taken away all securities of the small farmer
Don’t make a mash of it
It’s a bad synthetic world
On current technology green plastics don’t inspire confidence
Not a sweet deal
RAVLEEN KAUR attends a meeting where farmers rail at government’s sugar pricing policy
From where our food will come
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