Washed, clean and green

The Vankars of Gujarat have reclaimed saline wastelands in Gujarat after 9 years of bloody struggle

No news is bad news

A dearth of information brought brickbats to the department of wastelands development, which was entrusted the Herculean task of reducing the …

Let the drylands bloom

By maintaining terrestrial forestation to improve the soils, drylands can be saved from being further degraded

A fighting chance

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

Wonder plant

An eco-friendly plant, the Senna can be used to regenerate wastelands with less water and without pesticides

Desert blooms

Halophytes - plants growing on saline soil - could be India's Answer to the problems of salt desert and wasteland reclamation, besides Being …

Himalayan upheavals

NATURAL PREMISES: ECOLOGY AND PEASANT LIFE IN THE WESTERN HIMALAYA 1800- 1950·Chetan Singh·Oxford University Press·New Delhi&…

Government introduces land amendment bill amid protests, walkout

Farmers and civil society groups march on Delhi streets to protest Narendra Modi government’s anti-farmers and anti-people bill which …