Climate change: alarming Africa-wide report predicts 30% drop in crop revenue, 50 million without water
African leaders need to be very proactive in their climate change and mitigation efforts
Unseasonal Maharashtra rains damage crops on 7 million hectares: Govt
Kharif crop in Marathwada, Konkan and western Maharashtra affected
Marathwada floods: at least 12 killed; crops worth Rs 500 crore damaged
Floods affected 1,700 villages and also claimed lives of 183 animals
Smart device developed for precise use of herbicides
Indian and American researchers have developed a weed removal device for precise application of herbicide that can reduce crop damage and …
Maharashtra heads towards a drier drought
While last year, the state’s 14,679 villages were hit by drought, this time 20,000 villages are already facing drought-like conditions
Bihar floods: Lives of thousands upended in north districts as water refuses to recede
The standing floodwater damaged crops across hectares
Outbreak of Moroccan locusts will destroy 25% of annual wheat production in Afghanistan: FAO
Left untreated, locust population can increase 100 times next year
Invasive alien species threaten agriculture and biodiversity in Africa: Study
Africa may lose about $3.66 trillion annually due to impact of IAS on agriculture
Agriculture, food security and livestock in southern Africa most vulnerable to climate hazards: FAO
Cyclone Idai alone destroyed crops over 0.78 million hectares in Malawi, Mozambique and Zimbabwe, highlighted the UN agency’s recent report &…
Damage to crop and livestock from wildlife continues to be high despite mitigation efforts: study
AS per the study, 71 per cent of the households surveyed had suffered crop loss, and 17 per cent livestock loss
Farmers demand better crop prices, loan waiver and relief
A memorandum has been addressed to Prime Minister Narendra Modi containing a list of farmers' demands
A year of hunger: How the Russia-Ukraine war is worsening climate-linked food shortages
Many low-income nations who are net food importers are bracing for a year of hunger
Unseasonal rainfall damages Rabi crops for seventh consecutive season
Primary estimate puts crop loss at around 10-15 per cent till now
At least 42 killed in devastating pre-monsoon rains in Rajasthan, Uttar Pradesh
Weather forecasting agencies have warned of further rainfall around April 16 or 17 when a fresh western disturbance is expected to become active
Whitefly lesson
A few villages in Haryana successfully grow cotton amid widespread destruction of the crop by whitefly in the region
Over 200,000 hectares crops lost to locust attacks since 2019: Agriculture minister
The locust attacks since 2019 were the most serious in the country in 26 years
Himachal Pradesh: Floods hit 16th state this monsoon, to impact crop yield
The hill state got 15 times its normal rainfall on Sunday owing to a depression settled over west MP and east Rajasthan
Hailstorms, unseasonal rains damaged 4.76 lakh hectares of crop in February
Around 300,000 hectares of crops like jowar, gram, wheat and horticulture crops like orange, grapes, bananas and vegetables were damaged in …
Drought to deluge: Horn of Africa experiencing floods after six seasons of failed rains
Flash floods that damaged large areas of cropland likely to deal the hunger-plagued eastern Africa region a major blow
India lost crops on 18 million hectares to extreme floods from 2017-2019: Govt
Madhya Pradesh hardest-hit; figures show gross underestimation of crop losses due to floods
Research establishes link between farmer suicides and climate change
MGNREGS & social protection schemes are the way out, paper notes
Daily Court Digest: Major environment orders (April 18, 2023)
Down To Earth brings you the top environmental cases heard in the Supreme Court, the high courts and the National Green Tribunal
Quelea: Environmentalists protest Kenyan government’s move to poison millions of ‘feathered locusts’
Experts champion mechanical control of the birds & other alternative methods like monitoring their breeding & migratory patterns, …
South Bihar farmers say drought compensation too little too late
Compensation not extended to farmers in North Bihar where crop loss was significant too
Environmental charter for the new government
Sustainable development, pollution, employment generation and agrarian crisis did not play major roles in deciding the outcome of the 2019 …