Shades of green

During the Auto Expo 2000, most carmakers were seen going ahead with diesel models. But the makers of two-stroke two-wheelers decided to announce …

Dussehri's entrepreneurs

Village women emerge as successful entrepreneurs thanks to NEED an organisation with a difference

Betrayed

Nepal's forest bureaucracy prepares for the funeral of the much-hailed community forest management programme

In twilight zone

Even as tribal communities' anti-Koel Karo agitation continues, there is confusion in official circles about the current status of the project

In hope of benefit-sharing

In India, there has been a cautious move towards handing over control of natural resources to local communities

Fact or fiction

It is time proponents of large dams opened their eyes to scientific proof that establishes the efficacy of small water harvesting structures in …

Janadesh 2007: Satyagraha for self-reliance, dignity

Prosperity and Beyond

A quarter of a century ago, a jeep driver decided it was time to make a change. Ralegan Siddhi, made into a model village by Anna Hazare, faces …

Down with the dump

Residents of a Rajasthan village are up in arms over secret plans to store nuclear waste nearby

Chronicle of a journey foretold

Water trains aren't a strange sight anymore. Not the least in the parched areas of Gujarat. But while many villages await their erratic supply, …

How NREGA helped Panihari village

Their own suppliers

Scarcity teaches a village in Orissa how to manage its water supply  

Good Lord! No trees

Wood used in Jagannath’s chariot vanishing fast from Odisha’s jungles

Wings to Saras Crane

A community project conserves the non-migratory birds in Rajasthan

Search for the lesser evil

A Down To Earth survey of the civil society shows that when it comes to the environment, no political party in India has anything substantive …

Rising like the Phoenix

After suffering a spate of floods villagers regain environmental and economic vitality

A fighting chance

One man's dedication transformed the degraded, deforested land of his village

Heading Downhill

Thailand policymakers' volte-face on community forestry bill jolts devolution process

Villagers march to revive the Meghal river

Even as citypeople all over India were finalising their Christmas party-hopping plans, a celebration of a very different kind galvanised Junagadh …

Another world is possible

Optimism is a great friend but a bad guide. The Asian Social Forum meeting in Hyderabad, India, deliberately avoided this truism while …

The bare essentials

To make community forest management a success

Orissa villagers protect forest, reap benefits

A village that took on miners

Hunters are invited

At Pakke Tiger Reserve, NANDINI VELHO learns how a hunting tribe can be partner in conservation

Ready for guillotining?