by GRE Consortium | Feb 29, 2024 | Platforms and Partnerships / Blogs
From Trainers to Playbooks: Insights on Improving the Green Rural Economy Platform Members of multiple environmental and development organisations discuss different aspects of GRE at the launch. Photo by RB Productions. There is consensus on the broad rationale behind...
by GRE Consortium | Feb 9, 2024 | Platforms and Partnerships / Blogs
The Launch of a Consortium-Led Platform to Build Green Rural Economies Members of multiple environmental and development organisations discuss different aspects of GRE at the launch. Photo by RB Productions. The agrarian crisis in India has resulted in extensive...
by Karishma Shelar, P Srinivas Vasu | Dec 1, 2023 | Rural Futures / In the News
Feeding Humans Has Trapped World in Debt, Degradation: FAO A new FAO report blames “unsustainable business-as-usual practices” for escalating human and environmental costs of producing food. A groundbreaking report from the United Nations Food and Agriculture...
by Veena Srinivasan, Sneha Singh | Sep 20, 2023 | Urban Water / Op-eds
India is running out of phosphorus. Does the solution lie in our sewage? Photo by Nirjon Nakib, Pexels. Phosphorus is an essential ingredient in fertilisers as well as a major pollutant. We need to address both problems The problem with the fertilisation of land is as...
by Zumbish | Aug 7, 2023 | Rural Futures / In the News
70-80% Indian farmers depend on groundwater; solar irrigation inadequate to change crop choices: Report Policies favouring growth of staple water-intensive cereal crops in different states have played major role in irrigation expansion India’s looming groundwater...
