Weather advisories drive farmers’ income up to 50%
Every rupee spent on weather forecasting fetches 50-fold economic gains to below poverty line farming families
Cash transfers can help refugees, but they also carry risks. Insights from Kenya
Unrestricted cash transfers did not always achieve what they were meant for, find researchers in Kalobeyi refugee settlement
Has Dharavi Model made us lose sight of its real problems
COVID-19 pandemic will pass one day. But what about hunger, unemployment, loss of education and stigma
Davos 2020: Will sweeping protests across the globe lead to a new form of capitalism
‘Stakeholder capitalism’ may become a buzzword, but will it be a concept that can deliver
Community-based wildlife conservation is bringing success to Tanzania
A few villages set aside land for wildlife conservation in return for the majority of tourism revenues, allowing rural communities & private …
Infant mortality, youth unemployment among top exclusion factors in North Africa
Political instability and conflict have contributed significantly to exacerbate inequalities among some regions
Migration should be out of choice, not a desperate last resort: FAO head
Large-scale cross-border movements in recent years have sparked tensions in some countries, placing migration high on the diplomatic agenda
A third of the world’s poor live in India, says UN
Millennium Development Goal report released by global agency urges for increased efforts to increase access to sanitation and reduce hunger and …
Book One Valley and A Thousand Dams, Nationalism and Development
Book>> Daniel Klingensmith, 'One Valley and a Thousand' Dams, Nationalism and Development Oxford University Press New Delhi 2007
Blending green concerns into market economy
GERMAN environment minister Klaus Topfer has come under fire for his tough green laws such as the one against packaging. Environmental ministries,…
Labour vs pollution
Ever since the Supreme Court (sc) ordered closure/relocation of polluting units in Delhi, which subsequently left nearly 50,000 people jobless,…
Paying farmers for ecological services
Dying for ration: No health aid for those without PDS cards
Ground report from Jharkhand villages shows many pending applications; Rejected applicants told quota for beneficiaries full
Africa loses more money than it gets in aid
While annual global aid is less than $30 billion, the continent incurs loss of $58 billion every year
Wages of fear: How did COVID-19 geographic shift affect MGNREGA implementation?
The understanding should be part of India’s contingency plan to support rural livelihoods in the event of a third wave of the pandemic
SEZ, how special?
Despite having burned its fingers with export processing zones, which mainly involved a number of substantial fiscal benefits, the government has …
Zambians, suffering from climate change-induced drought, lock kitchens, guard fields as theft, prostitution levels spike
Water stress coupled with food stress has also led to livestock diseases, with farmers forced to sell off cattle at throwaway prices to afford …
More people in countries with low human development index suffer from climate-related disasters
Central America, the Caribbean, Eastern Africa, southern & eastern Asia have highest levels of impacts from climate-related disasters
Achieve development
The market, simply, cannot be left alone
COVID-19: In a first, public development banks pledge to end hunger, poverty
Commitment by PDBs significant for over 500 million small landholders
Ideas India
The book celebrates bold enterprises of ordinary Indians
Time to redraw the global poverty line
It must reflect new realities of food inflation, climate change impacts
New policy to revive agroforestry
The National Agroforestry Policy 2014 can substantially reduce poverty in rural India
Will cash transfer check migration?
India needs to be cautious as experience shows it can backfire
Madhya Pradesh's high-tech solution for PDS
State links PDS to UID to plug leakages in food supplies but gaps remain