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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 land that remained unsubmerged after the dam was built has now transformed into an island, becoming a key tourist attraction of Dumboor Lake.

Dumboor lake: When fields sank and farmers became fishers in Tripura

10 Oct 2025

8 min read

Maldharis grazing buffaloes on grasslands (Image Source: A. J. T. Johnsingh, WWF-India and NCF via Wikimedia Commons)

Banni grasslands, a lifeline for Maldharis from Kachchh district of Gujarat

Aarti Kelkar Khambete

16 Jul 2024

4 min read

Family networks improve outcomes for internal migration of small-scale fishers in India (Image: PxFuel)

How internal migration can work more productively for fishers

University of East Anglia

27 Sep 2023

3 min read

Adapting migratory pastoralists to climate change in India (Image: CGIAR; CC BY-NC-ND 2.0)

Challenges for pastoral communities in eastern India

ActionAid India

21 Aug 2023

4 min read

Migrant workers were more likely to experience a higher burden of COVID-19 infection (Image: ILO Asia-Pacific, Flickr Album)

Leaving no one behind

International Organization for Migration India

27 Jun 2022

4 min read

COVID-19 has had an adverse impact on the livelihood of people doing small jobs due to lockdown. (Image: Gospel for Asia; Wikimedia Commons)

Rural realities amid second COVID surge in Telangana and Andhra Pradesh

Impact and Policy Research Institute

05 Jun 2021

6 min read

The monsoon rains flooded the plots of land beside the Yamuna river in Delhi, displacing families from their vegetable patches. (Image: Michael Foley; CC BY-NC-ND 2.0)

Climate-induced migration surges in the Indian sub-continent

15 Apr 2021

1 min read

Migrant workers are left ailing both in cities and in villages, with no recourse or security. (Image: Wikimedia Commons)

Budget 2021: MGNREGA allocation insufficient

People’s Action for Employment Guarantee

13 Feb 2021

5 min read

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Climate refugees: Implications for India

Architesh Panda

18 Jun 2010

3 min read