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December 27, 2019
Watershed Management Compendium
This compendium by Dr Mihir Kumar Maitra answers all questions that will be of great use to practitioners engaged in both engineering and management aspects of watershed management in the field.
December 26, 2019
Centre holds green signal to Kalasa-Banduri project
Policy matters this week
December 19, 2019
Parliamentary committee expresses disappointment over slow pace of Namami Gange
Policy matters this week
December 11, 2019
NGT orders 100 percent treatment of sewage entering rivers
Policy matters this week
December 11, 2019
Replacing rice will improve India’s climate resilience
A study calls for solutions that can benefit farmers and the environment and positively impact India's nutrition indicators.
December 6, 2019
Holistic approach needed to clean the Ganga
A report by the India Rivers Forum highlights the need to focus further than the main stem of the Ganga river.
Ensuring food security in times of Covid-19
A study conducted in 47 districts indicates that over half of the surveyed households are eating less during lockdown.
Amita Bhaduri posted 5 months ago
Horticulture pile-up, yet farmers stare at losses in Kachchh
Robust arid region horticulture in the water-scarce arid region of Kachchh, but without improved value-addition for increased shelf-life, farmers faced with a crisis.
Amita Bhaduri posted 5 months 1 week ago
Coping with Covid-19: Options before small and marginal farmers of rainfed regions
There is a need to have basic institutional structures such as market, credit, insurance, research, extension service etc., in place in rainfed regions.
Amita Bhaduri posted 5 months 1 week ago
Village institutions take a lead in Covid-19 response
Institutions are a key arsenal in rural India's pandemic fight.
Amita Bhaduri posted 5 months 2 weeks ago
Using music to build water positive villages
A campaign tries to make watershed development work a citizens movement.
Amita Bhaduri posted 6 months 4 weeks ago
A national action plan to ensure sustainable and responsible business on the anvil
Policy matters this week
Swati Bansal posted 6 months 4 weeks ago
Outreach of current disaster-related apps in India poor
Technology and crowdsourced data need to play a greater role in disaster management in India.
Amita Bhaduri posted 7 months ago
Under Har Ghar Nal Se Jal, states to open water testing labs
Policy matters this week
Swati Bansal posted 7 months 1 week ago
Parasite – the film and India’s disaster management
How different populations face different levels of risk and vulnerability during disasters?
Amita Bhaduri posted 7 months 3 weeks ago
Unravelling Kuttanad’s drinking water paradox
Floods such as in 2018 could take the situation downhill causing severe drinking water crisis.
Amita Bhaduri posted 7 months 3 weeks ago
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