After Jairam Ramesh, now activists criticise green fund rules

They raise questions on the implementation of the rules and demand their withdrawal

Runup to Interim Budget 2024: It should show a road map for the next 5 to 10 years

The budget needs to recognise the long-term threat to food security from climate change even if it is not an election issue in short term  

The lure of 10 million jobs a year

Employment in agriculture has increased. Will it lead to shed the belief that agriculture will not be able to employ further?

Is PM Modi really a ‘Champion of the Earth’?

Even as the United Nations has selected India's PM for this year's award to honour his role in protecting the environment, his regime's …

Interim Budget 2019: 'Gokul Mission funds have not been suitably utilised at all'

The scheme is just 'lip service' for the Modi government says official even as Piyush Goyal allocates Rs 750 crore to it

Why India's poor laugh at anti-corruption campaigns

Indian anti-corruption drives don't factor in the poor, the worst victims of the scourge

Environmentally conscious former PM Vajpayee no more

Two old timers recall the contributions that Vajpayee made to the field of environmental governance in India

Farmer producer organisations need their very own Amul

Instead of encouraging them on paper, the government has to create a few model FPOs in the country and provide institutional support to them

'Relations between non-profits & govt are waning since liberalisation'

In the wake of arrests of 5 human rights activists by Maharashtra police, Down To Earth speaks to activists about what is bringing …

How companies got their way on biodiversity

Amendments to the Biodiversity Act let companies off the hook on having to share the benefits of using biological resources

India's National Action Plan on Climate Change needs desperate repair

India's National Action Plan on Climate Change has been slow to start and its sectoral missions are not aligned with the schemes the government …