Food

Food (Agriculture)

The famous Lake Chowmani fish market in Agartala city, where Hilsa is placed on an ice tray and displayed on the right under a special light.

Does the elusive Padma Hilsa fish still reach Agartala? A story of rivers and borders

09 Jun 2026

10 min read

Tripura Assembly

Rivers and Lakes

Silent Spills: Tracing the impacts of changing waters in Tripura’s gas-producing hills

28 Mar 2026

6 min read

Anita Devi lifts her hand and smiles softly. With the foxnuts she collected during harvest in her hands that are rough and wounded.

A Day In Mithila’s Ponds: Women and the Work Behind Bihar’s Makhana

Sharat Chandra prasad

09 Mar 2026

7 min read

Modern infrastructure, like this power pylon, now stands over the rice fields, a sign of the pressures facing traditional farming.

Kashmir’s rice fields are disappearing, and so are its farming traditions

08 Nov 2025

9 min read

The terraced fields of Kashmir hold drying bundles of rice. The sun casts shadows on the mountains, while the valley glows with the season’s work.

Harud: When Autumn turns Kashmir’s fields to gold

28 Oct 2025

5 min read

Ziro valley's rice farming

Fish, fields, and feminism: How Apatani women sustain Ziro’s aquaculture in Arunachal Pradesh

22 Aug 2025

5 min read

Punjab, part of India's breadbasket is losing water fast, as water-guzzling crops like wheat and paddy continue to suck water at rapid rates.

From India to the USA: The growing water crisis in the breadbaskets of the world

Aarti Kelkar Khambete

09 Apr 2025

8 min read

Mixing of ingredients for preparation of ragi mix by women self-help group members (Image: WASSAN)

Millets for malnutrition: A women-led initiative

Rajesh Kumar Pradhan

09 Sep 2024

5 min read

Solar power use in a Tamil Nadu farm (Source: Wikimedia Commons)

Solar powered irrigation improves nutritional outcomes in Chattisgarh tribals

Aarti Kelkar Khambete

02 Jun 2024

5 min read

A Bajra field (Image Source: Wikimedia Commons)

Tribals in Kerala revive an age old tradition by cultivating millets

Aarti Kelkar Khambete

18 Dec 2023

5 min read

Great Indian Bustard, Rajasthan (Image Source: Saurabh Sawant via Wikimedia Commons)

Villagers in Rajasthan restore grasslands to save the Great Indian bustard

Aarti Kelkar Khambete

15 Oct 2023

4 min read

Segregation of solid waste at source is important. Image for representation purposes only (Image Source: IWP flickr photos)

Panaji sets an example for other cities in waste management

Aarti Kelkar Khambete

05 May 2023

5 min read

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