Thriving through challenges, young farmer offers hope, motivation
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Uncertainty clouds future of returned migrant youth
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Livelihood
Thriving through challenges, young farmer offers hope, motivation
Hailing from a farming family, a young woman has qualified herself in agriculture, succeeding despite weather-related problems. Now she motivates other farmers, especially women, on adopting new techniques and enhancing income
Hiren Kumar Bose | Sep 18, 2020 | Raigad, Maharashtra
Lack of livelihood pushes returned migrants back to cities
Lakhs of rural Rajasthan migrants returned easily during lockdown since they worked in neighboring Gujarat. However, with no local employment avenues, the urban exodus would start again
Anhad Imaan | Sep 09, 2020 | Udaipur, Rajasthan
Adivasis on course to revive traditional farm practices
Deskilling of Central Indian Plateau Adivasis has led to loss of traditional knowledge and indigenous seeds. Efforts are on to reskill them by reviving traditional practices
Dibyendu Chaudhuri and Parijat Ghosh | Sep 07, 2020 | Jharkhand & Madhya Pradesh
Governance
Adivasi communities restore common wells during lockdown
When repeated requests for better access to drinking water failed, members of a women’s collective convinced returned migrant youth to restructure community wells during lockdown
Saloni Mundra and Drishti Agarwal | Sep 14, 2020 | Udaipur, Rajasthan
Health
Of cockroaches and digital health records
While digital health policy and proposed digitization of health records look good on paper, for it to be effective, basic rural health care services should function
Sanjiv Phansalkar | Sep 02, 2020 |
Education
Families learn to navigate lockdown together
Setting aside livelihood concerns, rural parents learn to engage with their children and keep them occupied productively with local resources, to ensure the children’s emotional well-being
Sk Mosharaf Hossain and Samit Pal | Sep 11, 2020 | Bastar, Chhattisgarh
