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Resettlement & rehabilitation. New policy, old story

Tribals continue to be robbed of land in Erode

My father used to say that an adivasi without land is like a living corpse

A compromised consensus

Two new provisions in land acquisition bill promise to protect farmers. Are they foolproof?

Ministers fail to reach consensus on R&R policy

Help Kerala’s rubber sector recover from crisis, urges state finance minister

In the run up to Union Budget 2015, M Suchitra speaks to Kerala Finance Minister K M Mani to draw up a list of the state’s expectations …

Landless people encroach upon private estate in Kerala

No substance in budget's agriculture hype

Shut and opened

Fissures in West Bengal's Left government over land acquisition

Who are the poor?

Identifying the poor and measuring the poverty is a contentious issue. Poverty line is not a sacred line. At best, it indicates how far the …

GDP ignores cost to the environment

Can this flawed measure of growth be reversed?

Poverty level will increase if health expenditure included

Planning Commission factors in less than one rupee a day as health expenditure in its affidavit to the apex court

Who are the poor?

Planning Commission's poverty estimates do not reflect ground reality

No state support to Zimbabwe's A2 farmers

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How the Bill took shape

History matters

The Forest Rights Act augurs differently for two tribal communities in Kerala

BPL's dividing line

Government undecided on criteria to identify families below poverty line

Is new land bill up to mark?

Draft land bill proposes higher compensation for land acquisitions, but complaints persist  

Towards food security: perspectives from three continents

The Food Insecurity Report 2014, released by the Food and Agriculture Organisation of the United Nations (FAO) last week, has revealed that one …

Road to disaster

Fertile land is up for grabs in western Uttar Pradesh. Private developers are acquiring it to build apartments, industries, IT institutes, and …

Inheritance of loss

Whatever the poverty line, 50 per cent people in India will remain poor

A march to highlight land struggles in India

Beginning October 2, activists will cover 75,000 km in a year