Community restores grasslands, makes village drought-resilient
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Community restores grasslands, makes village drought-resilient
Grasslands conservation, initiated to ensure water availability has increased the water table, resulting in reverse migration and cultivation of crops, and prevention of soil erosion
Vinaya Kurtkoti | Apr 21, 2021 | Dhule, Maharashtra
Tribal women reap benefits of collective farming
Switching to modern agricultural practices and coming together as producer groups have helped women farmers have the bargaining power about their produce and earn more
Alopi Chaturvedi and Suman Gayen | Apr 05, 2021 | Purulia, West Bengal
Bihar farmers grow makhana to tackle weather uncertainties
Climate-induced extreme weather events damaging their traditionally grown maize and paddy crops, farmers have switched to growing resilient foxtrot, known for its nutritional value
Pushyamitra | Mar 31, 2021 | Purnea and Katihar, Bihar
Governance
Community restores grasslands, makes village drought-resilient
Grasslands conservation, initiated to ensure water availability has increased the water table, resulting in reverse migration and cultivation of crops, and prevention of soil erosion
Vinaya Kurtkoti | Apr 21, 2021 | Dhule, Maharashtra
Health
Trained tribal youth educate community about coronavirus
To prevent pandemic alienation of tribes, select local tribal youth were equipped with accurate information, so that they could demystify coronavirus myths among their community
Abhijit Mohanty | Apr 19, 2021 | Rayagada and Koraput, Odisha
Education
How rural India showed resilience, synergy during lockdown
Republic Day is an ideal occasion to celebrate rural India’s positive progress. VillageSquare recollects how communities used the lockdown productively, despite difficulties and loss of livelihoods.
Jency Samuel and Editor VS | Jan 25, 2021 | India
