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December 12, 2022
Why farmers are not adopting crop insurance in India?
Study looks at behavioral biases in crop insurance adoption
Adoption rate of crop insurance low in India despite government efforts (Image: PxHere, CC0 Public Domain)
September 13, 2022
Chaos in a concrete jungle
Heavy rains and floods have battered Bengaluru yet again. Uncontrolled and unregulated development and concretisation of the city that pays no heed to the ecology and hydrology of the region needs to stop!
Urban flooding in Bangalore (Image Source: Thejas via Wikimedia Commons)
August 11, 2022
India’s rivers in trouble due to high fertilizer load and heavy monsoons
This could lead to water quality crisis reinforcing the need for basin-specific management strategies
Around the world, more than a fifth of nitrogen released by human activity ends up in aquatic ecosystems (Image: Wikimedia Commons)
May 24, 2022
Droughts reduce India's GDP by 5 percent in twenty years
News this fortnight
India, vulnerable to droughts (Image: Pixabay; hbieser)
May 14, 2022
Assessment of climate change over the Indian region
Climate change is real. What are its implications for India? This book presents a first of its kind national forecast on the impact of global warming on climate in India.
Climate change is real. What does it mean for India? (Image Source: Robert Hensley/Wikimedia Commons)
March 29, 2022
India, in the hot seat!
The intensity and duration of heat waves is predicted to increase in India and human induced anthropogenic changes are to blame.
A man sits under the scorching heat of the sun in front of Amer fort in Jaipur (Picture courtesy: Prabhu B Doss, Flickr Commons: CC-By-NC-ND-2.0)
‘We have more hardy, nutritious grains than GM can offer’
Debal Deb has conserved 1,200 climate resilient rice varieties. He speaks on the need to conserve traditional seeds and why we don’t need genetically modified ones.
Debal Deb
Posted on 16 Feb, 2017 05:59 PM

Farming can’t be sustainable without the seeds which are best suited to the location, water availability, soil type and weather. According to records, there were 1.10 lakh varieties of rice in India till 1965. After that, the Green Revolution happened, which pushed for hybrid varieties.
At his farm in Odisha, Deb conserves 1,200 traditional varieties of rice.
Beyond drought: Tamil Nadu's chain of misfortunes
Tamil Nadu continues to witness cycles of flood and drought annually. Mismanagement of traditional water management systems is one of the main reasons.
Seetha Gopalakrishnan
Posted on 07 Feb, 2017 10:40 AM

That Tamil Nadu qualifies to be dubbed as a land of climate paradoxes is beyond debate. The massive flood of 2015 was quickly followed by a punishing drought in 2016. Though the state benefited marginally from the south-west monsoon, as is usually the case, the biggest let down was the manner in which the more dominant north-east monsoon had panned out.
Parched land (Image courtesy: Ink Freezer)
Wetlands in Uttarakhand degraded: WWF
News this week
Swati Bansal
Posted on 06 Feb, 2017 08:02 PM

Negligence behind the degradation of Uttarakhand wetlands: WWF
Renuka lake in Uttarakhand. (Source: IWP Flickr Photos)
All eyes on agriculture
With the budget 2017-18 round the corner, we look at the needs of the agriculture sector in the country and what the budget can offer to support its growth.
Amita Bhaduri
Posted on 31 Jan, 2017 07:28 PM

The agriculture sector in India’s drought-ravaged regions is in a state of crisis. Millions of farmers are pushed out of their farms and into the cities for jobs.
Farmers thresh paddy during harvest at Sangrur, Punjab. (Source: Neil Palmer, CIAT, 2011, Wikimedia Commons)
Call for Applications: Benefit Sharing in River Systems Capacity Building Programme
A regional leadership and capacity building programme for water professionals working with Civil Society Organisations.
Posted on 25 Jan, 2017 03:32 PM

LEAD India is pleased to announce a highly innovative regional leadership and capacity building programme for water professionals working with Civil Society Organisations (CSO's). The programme is focused on nurturing leadership for transboundary cooperation and related issues, both at community and regional levels.
Chennai takes the wooded road
Better green cover could be a way to reduce the extent of disaster a Vardah could bring. Here’s a lowdown on the trees that Chennai must have.
Seetha Gopalakrishnan
Posted on 16 Jan, 2017 10:45 PM

 
One of the many trees uprooted by cyclone Vardah in Chennai (Image: Seetha Gopalakrishnan, IWP)
TN suffers the worst north-east monsoon in 140 years
News this week
Swati Bansal
Posted on 16 Jan, 2017 11:50 AM

Tamil Nadu declares drought
TN farmers in the midst of a crisis. (Source: IWP Flickr photos)
States fail to tackle groundwater crisis
News this week
Swati Bansal
Posted on 09 Jan, 2017 09:52 AM

A majority of states fail to stop overexploitation of groundwater
A well in Rajasthan (Source: IWP Flickr photos)
Invite to the conference on conservation science and sustainable development
ATREE invites for a two day international conference to celebrate 20 years of completion and call attention to current environmental challenges.
Posted on 07 Jan, 2017 10:34 PM

In order to celebrate 20 years of ATREE and to call attention to current challenges in biodiversity conservation, environment and development, ATREE has organized a two day international conference in January, 2017.
Worst drought in 115 years hits Kerala
News this week
Swati Bansal
Posted on 02 Jan, 2017 10:33 PM

Kerala hit by worst drought in 115 years
Parched land during drought in India. (Source: IWP Flickr Photos)
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