Desertification in India: Ananthapuramu in Andhra is so sandy it draws filmmakers to shoot
Dwindling rainfall, dependence on borewell for water-guzzling horticulture increase soil aridity
सियासत में पिसता गन्ना-1: 156 लोस सीटों पर ऐसे किया जाता है कब्जा!
चीनी उद्योग और सरकारों के बीच भ्रष्ट गठजोड़ है। देश की 156 लोकसभा सीटें गन्ने की राजनीति से जुड़ी हैं। अधिकांश नेताओं के अधीन ...
Aravallis broken beyond repair
Illegal mining has ravaged the mountain range in the past few decades. Down To Earth investigates the loss and traces the legal developments in …
Scrap laws banning cattle slaughter, farm exports: Farmers
Farmer organisations say these laws and several others ensure farmers do not get their rightful pay
New MP, Chhattisgarh CMs' loan waivers to not benefit 3.5 million farmers
The schemes Kamal Nath and Bhupesh Baghel announced soon after taking oath will not help those who take loans from money lenders
Tribals, widows, farm hands, farmers from all over India reach Delhi with their demands
After congregating at Ramlila Maidan from 4 corners they will march towards Parliament Friday
Illegal GM Soybean: Farmers’ body demands CBI probe into GEAC inaction
The biosafety regulatory body denies receiving any complain about illegal cultivation of GM Soybean in some parts of Gujarat
Stimulus that can spoil the milk sector
Karnataka government's financial stimulus to its dairy cooperative is benefitting 2.5 million farmers, but can destabilise the national market
How cow became the mother of demigods
The current political discourse on cow protection disregards the history of beef eating in India
'The tragedy of irrigation in India is that we have created capacity but have not utilised it'
Will the integration of Central Water Commission and Central Ground Water Board lead to better water management? Mihir Shah explains
‘Indian and African leaders must not fail to protect interests of locals at upcoming WTO meet’
Civil society members have expressed deep concern about how talks in previous such meets have failed developing countries
‘Government schools imparting poor quality education’
More than a fourth of rural students opt for private schools for better education, says Annual State of Education Report by non-profit Pratham
'Traditional water management systems key to water security'
Yogesh Jadeja is the director of Arid Communities and Technologies, an organisation that has been active in Bhuj and Kachchh areas of Gujarat …
India home to 28% of world’s poor: Human Development Index 2019
While the country has lifted 271 million people out of poverty between 2005 and 2015, it still accounts for a large number of the world’s &…
Deforestation, urbanisation, illegal mining, waste dumping leave Cauvery battered and bruised
Decades of degradation has led to an unprecedented crisis for the 15 million who live on the banks of the river. Down To Earth travels along the …
Sugarcane farmers could use some sweetening of the pill
The farmers will continue to bite the bitter pill unless politicians divorce themselves from the sugar industry and mills are forced to pay arrears
Implement Food Security Act properly, demand activists protesting hunger deaths
They claim that most of the 45 people, who died of hunger in the country in the past one year, were denied food on failing Aadhaar identification
भूजल जांच की बड़ी योजना
भारत ने 3 साल के ठहराव के बाद भूजल में यूरेनियम का पता लगाने के लिए सबसे बड़ा अभियान शुरू करने का संकेत दिया
Human development index: India climbs one spot to 130
Rising economic inequalities and wide gender gap don’t let India achieve a faster ascent among 189 countries
Consult us on linking agriculture with MGNREGA: Farmers write to PM
Rashtriya Kisan Mahashangha demands farmers's involvement in deliberations over use of MGNREGA in farm sector
Who robbed Narmada?
Farmers in Gujarat prepare for a bleak future and protests as Narmada water disappears from canals after Assembly elections
Kenya is losing about 100 lions each year for the past decade
Pastoral communities in Kenya are on a warpath with the endangered lions as habitats are disappearing
Few takers for ambitious crop insurance scheme
Only four percent more farmers have opted for crop insurance despite government’s targets for Pradhan Mantri Fasal Bima Yojana
Sustainable Development Goals are not confined to poor countries
Unlike the Millennium Development Goals, SDGs will not be confined to poor countries
Potato test for government
The crash in potato price is triggering a wave of suicides in several states. Will the NDA government's ambitious Price Stabilisation Fund help …