Rajasthan mine workers form cooperatives

Low Pulse

Spiralling prices of pulses have shown India’s dependence on imports. Pulses are integral to India’s diet but not its food policy. As …

Channels of change

Two villages in Uttar Pradesh have reversed the trend of migration by digging six kilometres of channels to bring water to drought-hit farms

Water ATM

Sarvajal makes clean drinking water accessible to people

Monsoon-friendly Assam reeling under drought

Food crisis grips Bangladesh after flood and cyclone Sidr

How rural kitchen pays

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

Against the flow

Protests against retail chains getting into fruits and vegetables

Workers starving due to closure of tea estates in North Bengal

Delhi's poll planks

Cereal killer

By promotong rice over coarse grains, the government is promoting food scarcity and defeciency of micronutrients among India's most malnourished …

Emergency

Chennai, crippled by water crisis, is also a metaphor for what Indian cities are experiencing in sourcing and managing the most precious natural …

Hidden hunger?

There is a rush to cash in on micronutrient deficiency in India through fortification of food

Pee, poop and paani

Bharat Lal Seth recounts his experience of drinking water reclaimed from sewage

India must focus on rainfed farming

There was a time when it was said that the Indian budget was a gamble on the monsoons. That is not the case any more, with industrial production …

Rs 1,86,000 cr illusion

Andhra Pradesh’s Jalayagnam irrigation scheme unviable, contract-driven, says CAG draft report

Empty Promises

The high-level conference at Rome was called to find a way out of the global food crisis. A series of consultations with experts preceded this …

Seeking Food Sovereignty

Global food crisis: causes and implications for India

Is there a global crisis unravelling? World food reserves are at their lowest in 25 years and the prices of most food crops are at a record high. …

Contaminating millets

There is disquiet over government scheme to wean traditional millet farmers on chemical inputs

Drought of equity

A large part of Maharashtra has been declared drought-hit. But distribution of water is quite incongruous. While the few who are politically and …