This tribal district has become 'immune to drought' with people's participation

Jhabua continues to flourish and maintain its status as a model district while many others fail

Climate change projects aren't working because communities are left out

Unless they trust climate change programmes, communities will continue to plunder forests rendering such interventions redundant

Spring in a box

A village in Maharashtra solves its water crisis by building underground boxes to tap spring water

Letting go a good thing

After almost eradicating filaria from a Kerala taluka , there are no takers for a bio-environmental vector management project

Search for the lesser evil

A Down To Earth survey of the civil society shows that when it comes to the environment, no political party in India has anything substantive …

A lesson for India

Despite disputes over commercialisation of forest produce, experts believe the movement will not be derailed. Meanwhile, India can take a lesson …

A troubled frontier

A government circular aimed at ending commercialisation of forests in the terai affects the hills, too. In the process, it threatens to derail …

Chronicling CFM

Community forestry, as it is practiced today, is a result of the government's willingness to learn from its past mistakes. Also, traditional …

Villagers march to revive the Meghal river

Even as citypeople all over India were finalising their Christmas party-hopping plans, a celebration of a very different kind galvanised Junagadh …

Issues in privatisation and commercialisation of water

Book>> Water: Private, Limited - Issues in Privatisation, Corporation and Commercialisation of Water Sector in India by Gaurav Dwivedi, …

Book review of "Environmentality: Technologies of government and the making of subjects"

Book>> Environmentality: Technologies of Government and the making of Subjects by Arun Agrawal Oxford University Press, Delhi 2006

Hunters are invited

At Pakke Tiger Reserve, NANDINI VELHO learns how a hunting tribe can be partner in conservation

Another world is possible

Optimism is a great friend but a bad guide. The Asian Social Forum meeting in Hyderabad, India, deliberately avoided this truism while …

Whose right(s)?

Ready for guillotining?

Mere paperwork

The state government of Goa acknowledges that a green law passed in 1996 is toothless

Tamil Nadu readies pond plan

A consumer movement is born

Villages plug into the grid, manage their own supply  

Only people's participation in eco-projects can combat corruption

Suresh P Prabhu looks back on his tenure as Union minister for environment and forests and speaks to Lian Chawii and Kazimuddin Ahmed on the …

Master plan for anarchy

The judgement to relocate polluting factories in Delhi leaves several questions unanswered. Will the powers-who-be work to turn good intentions …

When laws make out laws

Everybody's a loser. Forest guards die for laws that cannot be defended. Poor people get exploited. Veerappan rules the jungle. Sandalwood trees …

Cleanup time

A campaign by an organisation to clean up the polluted lakes of Udaipur has finally paid off. The Rajasthan High Court clamps down on erring …

People in development

THE ART OF FACILITATING PARTICIPATION·Shirley A White·Sage Publications, New Delhi·1999·Rs 250·367pp

Bad environment makes the poor more susceptible to diseases

Since 1997, V Ramaswamy has been working in Priya Manna Basti in Howrah -- a town inhabited by railway porters -- under the Howrah pilot …

My god v your resource

Recent Supreme Court order in Vedanta case holds hope for tribal community life