How to end hunger in sub-Saharan Africa: Fight inequality, gender imbalances and climate change

Food sovereignty is very tightly interlinked with social justice and sustainable development.

Govt's share of spending on nutrition, public health reduces in the last four years

Even the outstanding liabilities of states have been growing at double digits

Empowered by water: Women’s quality of life improves with household access to water supply

Women can save time to find avenues of additional income 

Union Budget 2020-21: Total rural budgetary allocation, including MGNREGA slashed

This comes even as rural India is suffering its worst unemployment crisis in 45 years

Lack of budget, high demand slow MGNREGS

Deletions keep millions jobless despite the scheme seeing highest demand in a decade

MGNREGA: Less than a million people got 100 days of work in first 7 months of this financial year

Least number of people got 100 days of work under MGNREGA in 5 years

Private insurance companies benefitted the most from PM Fasal Bima Yojana: Report

Farmers yet to be paid Rs 5,724 crore for claims made in 5 years since scheme launch

Odisha report on housing ‘irregularities’ under Centre’s lens

MPs allege that 85% of 1.2 million PMAY-G beneficiaries in state ineligible for scheme

Smart tech will only work for women when the fundamentals for its uptake are in place

If we want to tackle the underlying causes of gender inequality, to build smart and innovate for change, then technology is good

Culture of random, centralised monitoring is killing the spirit of MGNREGA

We do not need systems that alienate people from work and give further control to bureaucracy and frontline functionaries who are responsible for …

Budget 2023-24: Fund allocated for MGNREGA can provide just 17 days of work

Unjust allocation by the Modi-led government is an assault on the rights of rural workers, say activists

What rural facilities are prevalent in your state?

DTE’s analysis of data from the Union rural development ministry produces an interesting map of the Indian villages; follow the …

Flawed claims about NREGA implementation  

It is good to know that rural development secretary Amarjeet Sinha felt MGNREGA implementation could be improved. But his assessments are far …

Solutions at intersection of traditional knowledge & technology can help rural farmers

With the onset of climate change, monsoon has grown irregular and arrives later with every passing year, worsening the declining water table and …

Bihar plans policy change to push urbanisation

The state government has prepared a draft seeking changes to ‘old criteria’ for notifying semi-urban or rural area as urban 

Education, infrastructure saving grace for top districts: NITI Aayog report

Top performing districts still lag behind in development parameters like health and nutrition

Monsoon 2023: What’s pushing demand for work under MGNREGS?

The rural employment scheme should be perceived from the lens of climate change adaptation measures, says expert

Investing in Africa’s rural youth can work wonders for continent: Report

Africa’s youth bulge and the fact that most of its people live in rural areas, make this especially important

The wise debate

As the world debates the effectiveness of industrialised agriculture, the good-old small farmer emerges victorious

Structural pitfalls of MGNREGA

It’s time to remove inherent flaws of the guaranteed wage programme MGNREGA that limit its poverty alleviation potential

The story of 114 Odisha villages becoming child-marriage free begins with a small victory in Rugudipali

The villagers have also created an enabling environment for adolescents so that they can continue their education

The others too

The MeToo campaign comes at a time when women are being courted for electoral gains. Is it good or bad?

‘5G will better connect rural areas’

India plans to begin 5G trials by 2020, but experts and industry stand at odds over its impact on human health and environment. The fifth …

'State govts acquire land by subverting rights and bending the law’

The Centre for Science and Environment filed RTI queries to 28 states to understand how states are circumventing the land acquisition law. The …

Data shows corporates are consistently favoured over rural India

Corporate India gets indirect subsidy equivalent to 60 per cent of government expenditure on rural areas