Data on biodiversity research to be made more accessible

An MoU has been signed at 6th IPBES session in Colombia for free and open access to data

Common nightmares

Honey, I shrunk the land

Consumers, private sector crucial for fighting drought, land degradation: UN

Currently, policy instruments and investments to promote the spread of sustainable land management technologies are non-existent

Strawberry fields aren't forever

Vertical farms, the successful marriage of agriculture with industry, are the farms of the future

Genocide uncovered

Deeply embedded in the battle for land and pastoral hegemony, the first genocide of the 20th century—Namibia's Herero and Nama tribes by …

Kenya enacts law to give land titles to marginalised communities

The Community Land Bill lays down steps for communities to acquire titles to their ancestral land

Ecocare

Climate crisis in Kerala: An integrated approach is needed to mitigate impact

The state has been experiencing an onslaught of heavy rains, floods, landslides and droughts over the last few years

Exclusion errors: Decoding the female face of agricultural crisis

Without empowering women in farming by recognising them as farmers and giving them land rights, agriculture can’t be sustained and so can&…

How to create an oasis

Communities across the world are building on their traditional experiences to achieve land degradation neutrality

From Ram rajya to scientific farming

Salwa Judum going the Gandhian way? Chhattisgarh government thinks so

Pointed play

World Environment Day 2021: Why we need to restore contaminated land

Even after 21 years of waste management legislation, a majority of urban local bodies do not have an engineered landfill for disposal …

Punjab's marginalised communities struggle for their right to cultivate common lands

People from the scheduled caste have once protested against big landlords who have taken control of fertile common lands and they are all set to …

Goa sees sharpest dip in farm sizes, Sikkim follows

The latest provisional Agriculture Census shows that the average size of farmlands in Goa decreased by 30 per cent in five years

Yes, humans are depleting Earth's resources, but 'footprint' estimates don't tell the full story

Although Earth Overshoot Day is a compelling concept, the methodology used to calculate it and the ecological footprint on which it is based is …

The land rush

STRUGGLE FOR LAND AND THE FATE OF THE FORESTS Edited by Marcus Colchester and Larry Lohmann Publisher: The World Rainforest Movement, Malaysia, …

Levelled out: MGNREGA helps bring in more land under cultivation in Ranga Reddy

Having levelled the terrain, farmers for the first time take up agriculture

Humans caused unprecedented damage to Earth's ecosystem

Owl vomit fossils lead to conclusion in a study

Ministry of ocean development gets a new name

Earth Commission on the rise

Livestock boom

Poor farmers can benefit from it, only if there are appropriate regulations in place

It's pent up anger

Tribals protest against decades of injustice in Kalinga Nagar

How cheap?