Amita Bhaduri

Revival of a tribal practice for water resource development

Collective action for water resource development through Halma Amita Bhaduri posted 5 months 3 weeks ago

The tightly knit tribal society also advocates community action for solving issues (Image: AKRSP)

87% of India's districts vulnerable to droughts: IMD

47% of India’s population is vulnerable to floods, says IMD's Climate Hazards Atlas Amita Bhaduri posted 6 months ago

(Image: J Surya, CC-SA-4.0 International)

Budgetary provisions for drinking water supply continue to get priority

Budget for sanitation sees a decline Amita Bhaduri posted 6 months ago

Jal Jeevan Mission has picked up pace after two years (Image: Anita Martinz, Wikimedia Commons, CC-A-2.0 Generic)

Women and men’s differentiated vulnerability to disasters

The latest issue of Southasiadisasters.net focuses on the intersectionality of women-led disaster preparedness and resilience Amita Bhaduri posted 6 months ago

Woman trying to reach home during Cyclone Aila in 2009 (Image: Anil Gulati, India Water Portal Flickr)

Invest in organic and natural farming

CSE calls for making organic and natural farming a mass movement Amita Bhaduri posted 6 months 1 week ago

The agro-ecological movement has started gaining momentum (Image: India Water Portal Flickr)

Social inclusion and behaviour change key to wetlands action for people and nature

Need to pursue science-based and inclusive wetlands restoration initiatives Amita Bhaduri posted 6 months 1 week ago

Ramsar Site: Kabartal Wetland (Site no. 2436) - Kabartal Wetland, also known as Kanwar Jheel, covers 2,620 hectares of the Indo-Gangetic plains in the northern Bihar State. The Site is one of 18 wetlands within an extensive floodplain complex; it floods during the monsoon season to a depth of 1.5 metres. (Image: Credit: Wetlands International South Asia, 2015)

Budget briefs by Accountability Initiative: Highlights from key programmes

MGNREGS: Even after the inclusion of additional funds amounting to Rs. 25,000 crores via supplementary budgets, allocations were 12 per cent less than the previous year's revised estimates Amita Bhaduri posted 6 months 1 week ago

A school boy from Tilonia drinks from a tap from a rainwater harvesting tank (Image: Barefoot photographers of Tilonia)

Waghadi Bachao: A call for collective rejuvenation of the river

Working together towards restoring the river’s catchment and drainage lines Amita Bhaduri posted 6 months 1 week ago

River flow improved at Jarur since soil and moisture conservation measures along the catchment area were prioritised (Image: FES)

Assam: Technology used to map historical ponds of Darrang

The ponds are home to birds, reptiles and amphibians; study looks at their ecological relevance Amita Bhaduri posted 6 months 2 weeks ago

A ready reckoner on emissions

TERI and EDF develop a detailed air emission inventory Amita Bhaduri posted 6 months 2 weeks ago

Smokestacks at a power plant (Image: Flickr/ Nick Humphries)

Planning ahead: How the CRISP-M tool advances early climate action

A mobile and web-based tool that has the potential to increase communities’ resilience to climate change Amita Bhaduri posted 6 months 2 weeks ago

After a successful pilot, the CRISP-M tool is planned to roll out in two districts and seven states in India (Image: CRISP-M animation)

Floodplain wetlands of the Diara region facing degradation

Ganga plays key role in regulating wetland dynamics of the region Amita Bhaduri posted 6 months 2 weeks ago

Landscape-specific approaches instead of individual wetland-specific strategies if adopted, might help better interpret the wetland scenario (Image: Mapio)

National and international frameworks vital for implementing nature-based solutions

There is a lack of cohesive regional strategy for implementing nature-based solutions in Asia Amita Bhaduri posted 6 months 2 weeks ago

Mangrove ecosystem (Image: Sigit Deni Sasmito/CIFOR)

India State of Forest Report 2021: Key takeaways

India’s forest and tree cover rose by 2,261 sq km in the last 2 years but there was a loss of natural dense forests Amita Bhaduri posted 6 months 3 weeks ago

ISFR 2021 tracked the forest cover in tiger reserves for the first time. Kanha tiger reserve (Image: Aditya Thaokar, Wikimedia Commons)

Systems at breaking point

State of the world’s land and water resources for food and agriculture: The synthesis report 2021 Amita Bhaduri posted 6 months 4 weeks ago

Sustainable agricultural practices lead to water saving, soil conservation, sustainable land management, conservation of natural resources, ecosystem and climate change benefits. (Image: Maheshwara, Pixahive)

Book review: Water conflicts and resistance

Issues and challenges in South Asia, a region where water sharing is more than a mere physical allocation of water Amita Bhaduri posted 7 months ago

Water conflicts pose a challenge to India's river water governance (Image: sarangib, Pixabay)

Soil arsenic above 14 mg/kg can cause rice to be unsafe for consumption

First meta-analysis utilizing published data from Asian paddy fields on arsenic in rice grain, soil, and irrigation water to determine the relationship between them and to derive a limit of soil arsenic using machine learning algorithms Amita Bhaduri posted 7 months ago

Soil contributes more than irrigation to rice-grain arsenic concentration (Image: Arjun Reddy, Pixabay)