Watering down a success story
Water User Associations in Maharashtra face unforeseen hurdles despite being successful. Why is the government stalling them?
COP27: Global North governments want private sector to pay for loss and damage
Private sector companies’ understanding of climate adaptation and mitigation is limited, according to experts
COVID-19: Where are those pushing for privatised healthcare?
NITI Aayog, which has always advocated privatisation of public health infrastructure, has been silent recently
Digging the earth
Earlier it was deforestation, now it is mining that threatens the once stately Aravallis with total destruction
Run from cover
Health insurance companies pursue customers till policies are sold. Then they disappear. The nature of business has already changed the treatment …
Enable the poor
Book>> Challenging the injustice of poverty • by Rehman Sobhan • sage • Rs 699
Simply put: The budget amid a pandemic
Down To Earth’s cartoonist Sorit Gupto analyses the budget for the next financial year through his cartoons
Sustainable Development Goals: A paradigm shift in United Nations' fund flow
A report cites the changing funding patterns of the UN and its reliance on corporate partners
Package collection plan promotes recycling
Germany's environmental laws are slowly ushering in a culture of waste reduction, especially in packaging material.
World Water Forum - Shallow talk
The Third World Water Forum took place recently in Japan to explore methods to optimally harness this vital resource, especially in developing …
Celebrating WSF 2004
When 80,000 people talk it makes noise. So it wasn't unusual for the fourth World Social Forum (WSF) in Mumbai to be snidely called a huge '…
Africa Climate Summit 2023: Private sector commits to invest in green growth, mitigation & adaptation
They also committed to a just and equitable transition that ensures their supply chains, value chains
Out of rathole
Post a ban on small-scale coal mining, Meghalaya is investing its energy and enterprise in other sectors
Report paints thought-provoking picture of developing world due to climate change
The report says that climate change threatens the economic growth trajectories of India, Bangladesh and Indonesia
Wind power projects push land costs sky-high
Helped by state government concessions, Tamil Nadu is all set to expand its wind forms and become the country's premier wind-energy centre.
Green investment banks can unlock private finance for green infrastructure: Report
Centralised expertise in an independent institution can be an effective for drawing larger inflows of private capital
Global production of wood products registers growth
Governments need to ensure that principles of sustainable forest management are enforced, says forestry expert
Will India get freedom from open defecation?
Skyrocketing numbers on government websites project a doubtful picture of what has been achieved in one year. Read our Independence Day special
No health without wealth
The latest NSSO data shows that people are being forced to take loans and sell assets for treatment as the government healthcare system deteriorates
Jurisdictional ruling angers environmentalists
The Sri Lankan government is being sharply criticised for giving the court of appeal in Colombo authority to hear cases involving development …
Seed congress surreptitiously endorses transgenic varieties
did the World Seed Congress-2003 -- held under a cloak of secrecy in Bangalore from June 7 to 11 -- have a hidden agenda? It transpires that the …
"We have to produce more rice using less water"
Robert Zeigler, director general of the Manila, Phillipines-based, International Rice Research Institution (IRRI) talks to Sourav Mishra about …
Rise And Rise Of MFIs
Microfinance institutions entered big lending five years ago and registered 83 per cent growth
Heavy sway: Big corporations with power over farmer producer companies is diluting their purpose
Cluster-based business organisation were started to hand-hold small farmers’ businesses, but now control the FPCs instead
Death on mounds of a bumper crop
As corruption hijacks procurement centres in Bundelkhand, farmers prefer suicide to a debt trap. Richard Mahapatra reports from Uttar Pradesh …