Amita Bhaduri

Potential of rainwater management in Bundelkhand

Building resilient agricultural system through groundwater management interventions in degraded landscapes of Bundelkhand region Amita Bhaduri posted 2 years 8 months ago

Charkhari talab in Bundelkhand (Image: IWP Flickr)

Domain experts with low resource understanding are key

Domain expertise doesn't travel from high-resource to a low-resource setup Amita Bhaduri posted 2 years 8 months ago

(Image: Nick Youngson CC BY-SA 3.0 Alpha Stock Images, Picpedia.Org)

Peak stubble burning to worsen air quality in North India

Chilly winters due to La Nina may lead to more air pollution Amita Bhaduri posted 2 years 8 months ago

A farmer burning crop residue in his farm to prepare the farm for monsoon crop (Image: Abhiriksh, Wikimedia Commons)

Improving access to climate finance critical

India must collaborate with other countries to create a Global Resilience Reserve Fund to act as insurance against climate shocks: CEEW study. Amita Bhaduri posted 2 years 8 months ago

Bihar floods of 2008 (Image: M Asokan, Public Resource.org)

Move to amend forest law raises concerns

Comments on the proposed amendments to Forest Conservation Act, 1980: Submission to the Ministry of Environment, Forest & Climate Change by the Vidhi Centre for Legal Policy Amita Bhaduri posted 2 years 8 months ago

Dallirajhara forest of Chhattisgarh (Image: Tanvir Khan, Pixabay)

Celebrating climate action

The UN in India brings together youth climate champions and policymakers to showcase green solutions pioneered by young Indians Amita Bhaduri posted 2 years 8 months ago

Commemorating 76 years of the founding of the United Nations with a celebration of climate action in India (Image: PxFuel)

Uttarakhand floods, a marker of climate change

Flash flood fury in Uttarakhand, a classic example of extended stay of monsoon Amita Bhaduri posted 2 years 8 months ago

Floods in Uttarkashi, India. June 2013 (Image: Oxfam International)

Analysing data in-house

Taking stock of the state of art in in-house lightweight data analysis Amita Bhaduri posted 2 years 9 months ago

Non-profits face challenges in analysing the data in-house (Image: FinAnalysis)

Global hunger index: Intersection of conflict and hunger

Without achieving food security, it will be difficult to build sustainable peace Amita Bhaduri posted 2 years 9 months ago

India slips further in global hunger index (Image: Parij Borgohain, Pixabay)

Hand hygiene, a public policy issue

Interventions to promote hand hygiene should be designed based on an understanding of what people care about, says report on ‘State of the world’s hand hygiene’ Amita Bhaduri posted 2 years 9 months ago

Girls learn the value of hand-washing (Image: Kristen Kelleher, USAID, Pixnio)

Urgent action needed to embrace integrated water and climate policies

Asia suffered the highest economic losses from both floods and droughts compared to other regions in the last 50 years, says a report by the World Meteorological Organization. Amita Bhaduri posted 2 years 9 months ago

Buildings and roads washed away, floods in Uttarkashi (Image: Oxfam International)

The smallholder's dilemma

The economic unviability of smallholder agriculture and the consequent agrarian distress Amita Bhaduri posted 2 years 9 months ago

Smallholder farmers are pivotal to transforming the food systems (Image: Mahila Jagat Lihaaz Samiti)

India needs a comprehensive emissions database

India needs an official national emissions inventory for pollutants, as existing ones show 37% variation Amita Bhaduri posted 2 years 9 months ago

Database needed to assess emissions from industries, power plants, road transport, domestic sources, and agricultural waste burning (Image: Pxfuel)

Social Stock Exchanges have evolved as a potential funding mechanism, says study

A framework study by Samhita of seven global exchanges and India’s proposed social stock exchange suggests that this could be a game-changer in the social impact segment. Amita Bhaduri posted 2 years 9 months ago

SEBI Committee approves the creation of Social Stock Exchange in India (Image: Gerd Altmann-Pixabay)

Can weather index insurance be a win for all?

Insurance needs to be seen and understood from a resilience lens Amita Bhaduri posted 2 years 9 months ago

Devastated onion farm during floods in Bihar, 2016. (Image: Dakshina Murthy/IWMI)

Over 500 million people in India exposed to sand and dust storms

Storms worsen air quality and degrade vast farmland areas, as per a new UN study that analyses the impact of sand and dust storms on health, clean energy, transport, glaciers, cities and agriculture in Asia and the Pacific. Amita Bhaduri posted 2 years 9 months ago

Storms worsen air quality and degrade vast farmland areas, disrupt commercial flight services, lower the efficiency of solar power generation, and accelerate the melting of glaciers. (Image: ESCAP)