In the name of the people

Oases of fertility

The Sarvodaya Ashram in Uttar Pradesh has helped regenerate of hectares of saline land.

Simply put: Land acquisition

Tapping unused government land

There is a need to assess land acquisition and allotment for infrastructure projects, to eliminate the possibility of creating surplus and …

Controversial canal

The wonder fungi

Mycorrhizal fungi can improve the quality and longevity of plants

A river hard done by

Documentary>> Making the sewer...A river again: Why Mumbai must reclaim its Mithi • Observer Research Foundation

Drainage plan helps reclaim land

Scientists have evolved a subsurface drainage system that makes saline soils arable within three years

Deadly proposal

A wrong righted: Chhattisgarh becomes first state to give farmers their land back

Chhattisgarh has set an example by returning land acquired forcefully from over 1,700 farmers for a steel plant. Can other states follow suit?

Freedom from DDT

Aravalli Biodiversity Park: How a sand mine was restored to a 350 acre forest

But why is this place called a ‘biodiversity park’?

Stop reclamation plan

Interaction stressed among social disciplines

SOCIAL SCIENCE APPLICATIONS IN ASIAN AGROFORESTRY Edited by William R Burch Jr and J Kathy Parker . Publisher: Oxford & IBH Publishing Co …

Lost in reclamation

Study blames unmindful land reclamations in Mumbai for ecological damage, floods

Protest in the backwaters

Need to triple investments for restoring degraded land by 2030: Seoul Declaration

The Declaration focuses on identifying key areas that can help combat multiple crises humanity faces

Land restoration target revised to 26 mln ha: Experts call for strategy overhaul

Due caution must be exercised in setting standards and policies for restoration of degraded lands, say experts

Towards wetland conservation

The Union environment ministry has been working for the past four years to create a regulatory framework to protect the country’s wetlands. …

Up for grabs

Goa suffers the infiltration of its pristine landscapes by groups with vested commercial interests

How the world's land and water surface have changed in 30 years

India ranks sixth in conversion of land surface to water 

Wetlands in danger

Kerala government plans to dilute strict legislation in the name of plugging loopholes

Scheduled abuse

A Union government proposal to amend the Fifth Schedule of the Indian constitution not only sidesteps an earlier SC order, but also threatens to …

Little harvest, less land to till

Leh farmers face losses as flood debris rendered land uncultivable

Kerala regularises paddy field reclamation and conversion up to 2008

The government expects to make additional revenue of Rs 200 crore; activists say it has yielded to mafia pressure