In search of the missing

In the undivided Koraput district of Orissa, there exist 190 villages that have slowly been pushed off the map of India. Hurled by fast-track …

El Nino fallout: food prices to shoot northward

The weather phenomenon will bring down production, increase food prices worldwide

Economy of slippage

Rural people can now get anganwadis on demand

How India remains poor: Has poverty become ‘hereditary’

Millions of Indian households transfer poverty to the next generation, making poverty eradication nearly impossible

How rural kitchen pays

Local procurement for anganwadis can revive rural economy in a big way

No substance in budget's agriculture hype

Budget 2020-21: Will MGNREGA become an overarching rural development scheme

The upcoming budget will see many schemes being brought under the rural employment prtogramme; a direct cash transfer may be declared to top this up

Agriculture sector has beaten pandemic, latest GDP figures show

Estimate for June quarter reported a contraction of 23.9 per cent in national GDP, but agriculture was the only sector to have reported positive …

Grains of doubt

Rural affairs ministry rejects wage payment in kind under rural job scheme

15 lessons for India

As odd-even traffic restrictions in Delhi draw to a close, we highlight the takeaways from this massive community initiative to curb air …

How natural resources doomed UPA

Management of natural resources will be the toughest job for the new government

लाभार्थियों को नया वोट-बैंक बना रही मोदी सरकार

नरेंद्र मोदी लोगों को अधिकार देने की सोच के उलट कल्याणकारी योजनाओं से उन्हें उपकृत कर सरकार चलाना चाहते हैं

India among top 10 countries gaining forest area in the world: FAO

Half of people employed in forestry in the world are in India  

Paying farmers for ecological services

Walk the village talk

After raising the political profile of village councils, government wants to downsize them

Forest war

Naxalism started as a movement against land alienation. Today it has become a popular movement against natural resource alienation, …

Losers again

Are our budgets participatory?

Legislative scrutiny of budget in India compares with that of Afghanistan and Rwanda

Injustice gets nastier

Veggies delight

The rising demand for vegetables has opened up a money-making opportunity for small farmers. Already reeling from recurring droughts and …

‘Forest department is the encroacher’

When V Kishore Chandra Deo became the Union Minister for Panchayati Raj and Tribal Affairs three months ago, both the ministries were in inertia.…

Green rider for GDP

World is moving towards natural capital as a measure of economic growth

GDP ignores cost to the environment

Can this flawed measure of growth be reversed?

Inheritance of loss

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