Tag: Farmers
Where Are The Farmers In Our Conversations On Sustainable Consumption?
This is the second article of a three-part series on sustainable consumption and food security in India, supported by Pristine Organics. Click here to...
Adaptation Innovation in the Face of Natural Disasters: An “Insurance Plus”...
As soon the Indian Meteorological Department issued warnings of Cyclone Nivar approaching off the Southwest Bay of Bengal, state governments kicked into damage control...
Solutions to the Smoke: Upcoming Alternates to Stubble Burning
If there is anything that can survive through the toughest of times, it is internet memes. Just as the capital city became smokier, my...
Reviving the Thar Desert’s Camel Culture
Sumer Singh Bhati’s Whatsapp status is a photograph of a notice published in Rajasthan’s local newspaper. It informs that 12 kilometres of transmission lines...
The Genius of Market Fundamentalism
The genius of modern neo-liberal economics is that its ideas have been sold to us by those in power over the last few decades...
Demolishing Nurseries to Plant Trees on the Banks of the Yamuna
Every year during the monsoons my social media blows up with reports of the Yamuna floodplains brimming with water, closely followed by stories on...
What if We Could Pay Farmers to Grow and Protect Forests?
COVID-19 is a global tragedy. However, what is of greater concern is that the pandemic is merely a symptom of a much larger problem:...
Against the Grain: How Students Are Supporting India’s Farmers (in Crisis)
Written by Evita Rodrigues
“Young people, I think, are more responsive to issues of justice. When something is unfair, the whole unfairness of the situation...
