Food production will need 165-600 million hectares more land to meet demand by 2050

Need to halt deforestation while ensuring food security, says report by FAO

Look back in hope: What America’s Hopi people can teach us about living sustainably

Down To Earth talks to author Daniel Pinchbeck about what the Hopi Native Americans of Arizona can teach the modern world which is warming …

Wet regions may behave like drylands: Study blames heatwaves, droughts

Europe, US might see desert-like changes due to current heatwaves, authors suggest

Recognising the role of pastoralists in agrarian development

The farmer-herder relationship of mutual benefit and care is threatened by commercialisation of agriculture

How a water project put women in charge and turned the fortunes of a dry Bengal village

With men quitting agriculture to work as unskilled labourers, women lead measures to curb soil erosion

Farm it like India

Novel, ground-breaking innovations to solve day-to-day problems faced by farmers 

Climate-smart agriculture: an answer to climate change

Sustainably increasing agricultural production, adapting to climate change and reducing emissions are the main points of climate-smart …

Anantapur farmers take up polycropping to drought-proof agriculture

As a result of natural farming practice that encourages polycropping, groundnut is no more the solo crop in many villages across the district

It is not a drought but a cumulative outcome of decades of policy sins

It is not deficit monsoon, rather the lack of policies and mechanisms to drought-proof susceptible areas that turn the situation into a crisis

A continental crisis, and a few green shoots

African countries are fighting an addiction: import of food items, which happens at the cost of domestic farmers. Despite the unprecedented …

How India is killing the country’s largest economy of the poor

New restriction on cattle slaughter will severely cripple the livestock economy which is bigger than crop economy; poor farmers shifted to …

Drought in Kenya puts livestock at risk; crop failure triggers fear of starvation

Kenya is prone to drought because only 20 per cent of the country receives adequate and regular rainfall

Pulses, neglected for long

Despite being a world leader in pulses production, India has been forced to import due to crop loss and seed deficit. The sharp rise in prices is …

Stalled monsoon to make little progress before June 25

In spite of unfavourable conditions, IMD expects a major progress of the monsoon in Central India

Government tries to harvest success with farmer-friendly Budget

The 2016 Budget has the right intent for the rural sector, but lacks clarity

Towards a hopeful agricultural future

In India, no other industry has as many restrictions, controls and blatant discriminations as agriculture

Capturing the monsoons

It's a season that inspires and engages everyone, from the farmer to the policy maker. From the scientist to the travel writer. From the …

Letters

Pomegranate king

Copying the West

Dyeing drylands

World status of land degradation

Gender bender

ENVIRONMENTAL LAW AND POLICY IN INDIA: CASES, MATERIALS AND STATUTES By Shyam Divan and Armin Rosencranz •Second edition • Published …

India needs to overhaul its approach towards agriculture

People feel cheated over government assurances on Pedhi dam