India: How can farmers thrive without using chemical fertilisers?
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and other environmental initatives in India…
Our top story this week looks at how an organisation in Telangana is empowering farmers to move away from chemical fertilisers
Our top story this week looks at how a food enterprise’s networks and sustainable farm-to-market food supply processes are helping alleviate rural distress in Maharashtra and other states.
Our top story this week looks at how Farmers for Forests has been piloting the payment for ecosystem services in Maharashtra with two objectives: to protect existing forests and grow new forests on degraded land.
Our top story this week looks at how 29-year-old Ranjana Kukreti’s endeavour to combine traditional knowledge with scientific techniques is bringing in a new dawn for hill farmers of her village in Uttarakhand.
Our top story this week looks at a small group of women in Vellore, who have built more than 600 recharge wells over the last four years, ensuring a six metre-rise in groundwater levels, and the revival of a once-dead river
Over 1,000 hectares of Mumbai’s mangroves are fiercely guarded by a fishing community
Our top story this week is how an organisation is championing extracting non-narcotic hemp, that grows in abundance in the Uttarakhand valley, for industrial use to create local resource-based employment for the vulnerable mountain communities of the Chamoli district
Our top story this week looks at how Beejom doubles up as an animal sanctuary for native Indian cow breeds by trailing the focus away from dairy farming and towards an economy around cow dung and cow urine instead.
Our top story this week looks at how an upscale neighbourhood in Gurgaon has taken the responsibility to collect and compost their organic waste together as a community.
Our top story this week looks at how an eco-friendly wastewater management technology, that converts sewage water into clean, potable water, is trying to mitigate the problem of access to this precious resource in the water-stressed city of Delhi. How viable is this technology?
Our top story this week looks at how an organisation is providing solutions to Himalayan women by way of reducing their work burden so that they can participate in productive economic opportunities.
