Climate Change
Machine eases work, empowers Andhra women labourers
In Srikakulam, zero tillage in maize crop sowing through the double wheel marker reduces workload for women.
Climate change looms over Udupi sarees
The production of Karnataka's acclaimed Udupi sarees has been impacted by climate change. Weavers complain about the rice gruel starch, an important ingredient of production, drying up too quickly as the temperatures soar in Dakshina Kannada district.
Karnataka weavers of Udupi sarees face heat over heatwaves
Climate change is adversely impacting weavers of the globally acclaimed sarees as the starch they use is drying up too quickly due to rising temperatures.
Racing with the tides- Earth Day
Biswajit Sahu, a fisherman, has been collecting artefacts while fishing to create a museum preserving the history of the Sunderbans, battling climate change and the rising sea.
A new platform helps farmers in Jharkhand earn money from carbon projects
At a time when adverse impacts of climate change on agriculture are apparent, a new carbon finance platform promotes climate resilient agriculture in Jharkhand and helps farmers access climate finance.
Producers of sweet mangoes feel bitter about losses
With low flowering of trees and expected yield to be a small percentage of their normal production, mango farmers across Odisha feel the impact of climate change.
Kerala floods trigger more migration
With erratic and intensifying rainfall, Kerala is witnessing more deadly floods and landslides in recent years, leading to an exodus of people from vulnerable areas.
Kerala’s backwater exodus
Villagers in the backwaters of Kerala are used to floods. But as homes become inundated by water throughout the year, many are fleeing.
Dry toilets to help Ladakh in organic farming
Bacteria boosters that help night soil decompose faster and increase crop productivity, help in promotion of traditional dry toilets, and thus organic farming and water conservation.
Climate change disrupts livelihood of Kerala’s fishers
Extreme weather and cyclone alerts reducing the number of fishing days, besides dwindling fish catch, climate change is taking a toll on fishers’ livelihood
How climate-induced changes affect children more
With extreme weather events affecting villagers, children miss education, are more susceptible to malnutrition and diseases, and are forced to take up labor work
तटीय किसान, दमदार घास ‘खसखस’ से दौलत कमा रहे हैं
भारत के पूर्वी तट के किसान, जो हमेशा चक्रवात और बाढ़ के साए में रहते हैं, ने खसखस की खेती से व्यावसायिक सफलता हासिल की है| खसखस, जिसे खस भी कहा जाता है, एक बारहमासी घास है, जिसके कई उपयोग हैं|
Coastal farmers harvest riches with hardy vetiver
Farmers in India’s east coast, which is vulnerable to cyclones and floods, have found commercial success by growing vetiver, a perennial grass also known as khus that has a variety of uses
Diversified organic farming can transform Marathwada
Smallholder women farmers in the climate-threatened Marathwada region of Maharashtra are ensuring nutritional security and additional income for their families through diversified organic agriculture
Himachal apples give way to pomegranates
Changes in climatic conditions have led to Himachal farmers growing pomegranates, as many find that apple cultivation, other than high-density varieties, is no longer economically viable
Farmers revert to traditional bio-fences for multiple benefits
Trees and thorny cacti that served as fences protecting crops from cattle, as wind breakers conserving soil moisture, besides providing fertilizer and fodder, are making a comeback in Tamil Nadu
Kerala’s cash crops face the heat of climate change
Coffee and pepper farmers in Wayanad are suffering losses caused by a rise in local temperatures and increasingly erratic rainfall in a district whose residents once boasted of its air-conditioned climate
Farmers across India revive folk rice varieties
Cultivation of traditional rice varieties is becoming popular in Chhattisgarh, after a campaign to popularize indigenous paddy strains spreads from Kerala to Himachal Pradesh to West Bengal
It’s raining sand in Rayalaseema
Changes in crop patterns, waning forest cover, an explosion of borewells and the death of a river have produced dramatic effects on land, air, water and forests in Rayalaseema
Vineyards of hope amid Marathwada drought
Despite the drought gripping the Marathwada region of Maharashtra, one village in the region has flourished by growing grapes using innovative water saving methods