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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)
India's urban water systems: Challenges and way forward
Stages of urban development, sources of water, and the nature of aquifers all pose different challenges for water demand and availability in urban spaces in India.
Mihir Shah
Himanshu Kulkarni
Posted on 13 Oct, 2015 07:03 PM

Current evidence shows that the number of people living in urban areas in India is expected to more than double and grow to around 800 million by 2050, which will pose unprecedented challenges for water management in the country. The paper titled 'Urban water systems in India: Typologies and hypothesis' published in the

Water, a valuable resource (Source: IWP Flickr Photos)
Monsoon 2015: Nearly half of Indian districts reeling under drought
News this week
Swati Bansal
Posted on 05 Oct, 2015 11:38 PM

Monsoon leaves the country with 39% area still parched
Drought affected area in Karnataka (Source: Pushkarv via Wikipedia)
India submits its new climate plan to UNFCC
Policy matters this week
Swati Bansal
Posted on 05 Oct, 2015 11:38 PM

India announces its new climate plan
Climate Change (Source: Sourabh Phadke on IWP Flickr Photo)
Training on Monitoring and Evaluation of Development Interventions
A three day training session being held on Monitoring and Evaluation of Development Interventions by Sambodhi Research and Communications Pvt. Ltd. at New Delhi
Posted on 01 Oct, 2015 12:46 PM

Course Objectives:

At the completion of the training programme, the participants would be able to
Ice Stupas: Water conservation in the land of the Buddha
As Ladakh faces water scarcity, the Ice Stupa project aims to overcome this in an innovative manner--through the making of vertical ice mountains.
Ian Cunningham
Posted on 30 Sep, 2015 10:03 AM

Living in the mountains
Ice Stupa: Made from artificial glaciers, they store wasting winter water that melts & feeds farms when water is scarce (Source: The Ice Stupa Project)
New scheme for the development of mining-affected areas
Policy matters this week
Swati Bansal
Posted on 29 Sep, 2015 04:58 PM

Government announces launch of Pradhan Mantri Khanij Kshetra Kalyan Yojana
Coal mines in Jharsuguda district (Source: IWP Flickr Photo)
UNDP's Climate Change Storytelling Contest
Write your best climate change story and get an opportunity to join and cover COP21
Posted on 22 Sep, 2015 04:26 PM

UNDP has launched its global storytelling contest, Voices2Paris, to contribute to raising public awareness on the negative impacts of climate change as well as on the opportunities and solutions seen in actions by individuals and governments alike across vulnerable devel
Media workshop on climate change adaptation in Assam
Applications are invited for the media workshop on climate change adaptation in Assam that will be held in Jorhat and Majuli from November 2 to 5, 2015.
Posted on 22 Sep, 2015 03:59 PM

About the Event:
A pond comes to life
Hundreds of villagers pitched in to revive a village pond at Bapugaon, a village in Rajasthan, to make it water and food secure.
CECODECON
Amita Bhaduri
Posted on 22 Sep, 2015 10:42 AM

It had not rained for awhile and the tiny cracks in the earth in Bapugaon were opening up. This little village in Chaksu tehsil of Jaipur was yet again faced with a drought in the mid 1980s. The situation was aggravated in 1986 when the river Dhund, an important water source for Bapugaon, went dry. Since then, both the quantity and quality of water started deteriorating.
More than just physical rehabilitation of a water body, says Kalyan ji of Bapugaon
Centre approves 50 more days of work under MGNREGA to tackle drought
Policy matters this week
Swati Bansal
Posted on 21 Sep, 2015 10:14 PM

50 more days of work under MGNREGA in drought-hit areas
Labourers building check dams under MGNREGS (Source: IWP Flickr Photos)
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