Pharma companies determine what patients buy

Farming made unprofitable

Parched ground

Natural burden

2022 too short, too far: How did the economy fare last year

Down To Earth recaps the primary environment, health and developmental news from 2022

Science & Technology - Briefs

Letters

100 smart satellite cities on anvil

Push for urban development through PPP and FDI

Andhra salt-makers want recognition as farmers

Clouds over solar

South Asia

South Asia

News Briefs

In rural West Bengal, debts mount and socioeconomic fabric collapses in absence of MGNREGS

Local economy hangs by a thread as residents desperately demand revival of the rural employment scheme

Whose debt is it

Many African nations are defaulting on payment of loans they have utilised for funding climate-resilient infrastructure

Avartansheel Kheti changing lives with periodic farming

The purely organic method of growing food involves dividing the land into zones for cereal crops, vegetables, fruiting trees and animal husbandry

Climate, developmental goals can push 47 emerging markets & developing economies to insolvency by 2028

IMF and World Bank debt analyses grossly underestimate sustainability problems, finds new report