Cannabis for a Crisis? How Hemp Can Help India
The COVID-19 pandemic has pushed a struggling economy into a full-blown recession. Acute agrarian distress may have been tempered by good monsoons, but the...
Not on Our Commons: Rajasthan’s Villages Fight Against Mining
Vaishnavi Rathore and Deborupa Ghosh
Since the first week of September, Pur, a town in Bhilwara district of Rajasthan has been on an indefinite protest....
Life In Plastic, Not Fantastic: Is there an answer to New Delhi’s woes?
Written by Stuti Pachisia
Delhi’s ever-expanding population has dimmed the chances of ensuring a sustainable future for itself. As a city with over 22 million...
Disaster Management in Kerala: Coming up Short and Dirty
Written by Tanay Gokhale
Researched by Ayushi Ghosh
The floods that ravaged Kerala were ruthless in their destruction. The physical damage to infrastructure is staggering; 11,000...
Low-Cost Vermicompost Instead of Inorganic Fertilizers | Hear from Small Farmers in the Kanha-Pench...
Vermicompost revived soil quality, reduced input costs, and made farmers self-sufficient through lockdowns.
Mega ‘Eco’tourism Project Questions Wetland Ownership and Livelihoods in Manipur’s Loktak Lake
While locals see merit in tourism as an alternative livelihood, they are asking for the adoption of a community-owned eco-tourism model, instead of the top-down, large-scale tourism model being proposed.
Wilderness Conservation and a Flawed Imagination of Nature
Many of us have been sharing videos and photographs of “nature coming back” in the wake of the COVID-19 induced lockdown of normal human...
One Step Forward, Two Steps Back: Conservation, Rights and Exclusion in India’s Forests
Written by Arpitha Kodiveri
“The Forest Department is not ready to share its power; it sees itself as a landlord of these forest areas. The...
ZBNF: Will One Size Fit All?
By Vaishnavi Rathore
Zero Budget Natural Farming is a fairly self-explanatory term. An alternative to conventional farming, ZBNF claims to have almost negligible investment in...
“Ladies First Hai!”: Mahila Mandal’s Fight Against Solid Waste Dumping in Sudher, Himachal Pradesh
In India’s Himachal Pradesh, in the western Himalayas, Anuradha is doubled down into the soils of her farmland in Sudher village, donning a dhattu—the...
