Cry neem

There is more to neem than fighting a patent

State of Health: Acute shortage of doctors, lab technicians, radiographers in India’s rural health centres

India needs at least 36% more community health centres

Odisha issues guidelines for FRA convergence plan implementation

The guidelines aim to increase benefits through community involvement

Panchayats, European style

Fuel for thought

Biogas generation helps save 112 tonnes of fuelwood use annually in a small Bhopal village

Promises broken

Dear Prime Minister Koirala we urge you not to learn from India

An award for the people

Three village communities in Rajasthan are awarded for their conservation efforts

Community-based wildlife conservation is bringing success to Tanzania

A few villages set aside land for wildlife conservation in return for the majority of tourism revenues, allowing rural communities & private …

Why this Maharashtra village is fighting for the long forgotten Gramdan Act?

In a society that is moving towards hyper-individualism, the community here takes a collective approach

Seven years in, Madhya Pradesh government goes back on its word to not build Basania dam

Chief Minister Shivraj Chouhan tells state legislative assembly December 21, 2022 that a company has been notified for construction of the dam

Chhattisgarh: Adivasis say FRA violated, as forest department marks trees for felling in 3 districts

Villagers now have the legal right to protect, regenerate, conserve and manage these lands

Decentralised renewable energy vital for strengthening Jharkhand's health sector

Over 13% of health sub-centres and public health centres in Jharkhand not electrified 

New WHO / ILO guide urges greater safeguards to protect health workers 

The joint publication encourages countries to strengthen the protection of health workers by improving the management of occupational health and …

Missing the woods: The story of India’s vanishing forests in 20 cards

Some 25.87 million hectares of forest is missing from the latest assessment of India’s green cover. Here are some cards that tell the story

COVID-19: Does Kolkata face community transmission

Strictest form of containment, super-lockdown, will be imposed in Kolkata’s 110 areas across 57 wards, according to a govt source

Southern African countries won’t manage disasters unless they work together

 Of SADC’s 16-member states only Angola, Botswana, Tanzania, Zambia and South Africa contributed to the relief efforts after Cyclone Idai

How accurate are government’s claims on forest rights in Odisha

A review by the Centre recently found Odisha to be the best performing state in forest rights implementation   

Odisha tribals to sell kendu leaves and exercise their forest rights

The state’s forest department has not allowed sale of the leaves to anyone other than the goverment 

Revising an antiquated legislation

The environment ministry is updating the Indian Forest Act, but getting all the states to agree to it may prove to be tricky.

'We need technology, but on our own terms'

Nanuram Rawat was the adhyaksha of the gram sabha in Seed, one of the first gramdan villages where environmental resources have been regenerated …

Return of the woods

Two decades of toil have given back to Seed village in Udaipur a forest that villagers felt had been destroyed forever

Power of the people

As megacities across the world boom, simple pleasures of life like fresh air and clean water have been lost. Initially, governments tried to …

Mpox, AIDS & COVID-19 show challenges of targeting public health messaging to specific groups without causing stigma

Racial, sexual stigma around monkeypox spurred World Health Organization to rename the disease to mpox

Economic Survey 2022-23: Health not a priority? Just over 2% of GDP spent

Out-of-pocket-expenses remained dangerously high till 2019-2020

Can permaculture make agriculture sustainable?