What ancient farmers can really teach us about adapting to climate change – and how political power influences success or failure

Depending on how they are used, ancient agricultural practices can either reinforce social inequalities or create more equitable food systems

This gel can protect farmers from toxic pesticides

Researchers at Institute for Stem Cell Science & Regenerative Medicine, Bengaluru, developed poly-Oxime that deactivates toxic chemicals, …

More than 400,000 farmers to protest at Ramlila Maidan

On September 5, the Mazdoor Kisan Sangharsh Rally will start a march towards the Parliament with a list of demands regarding protection for …

Live life farm style

Want to live in a city and grow your own food in a village nearby? There are companies that can help

Drought in Australia to intensify, fuels winter bush fires

Fire fighters in New South Wales are battling 81 grass and bushfires, 38 of which remained uncontained

Every hour, a farmer committed suicide in 2015

87 per cent of total number of suicides were reported from well-off states such as Maharashtra, Karnataka, Telangana, Madhya Pradesh, Chhattisgarh,…

Lessons from Zimbabwe’s tobacco farmers for the COP26 climate change talks

Tobacco, as with much agricultural production, promotes unsustainable modes of commodification and consumption of nature

Bengaluru ready for 107th India Science Congress

The event is a major focal point for scientists, researchers and academicians interested in various aspects of science discoveries and …

'The sugar sector is highly politicised'

Sandip Sukhtankar is associate professor, department of economics, University of Virginia, USA. He has authored a critically-acclaimed paper …

The invisibility of gender in Indian agriculture

Why policy paralysis in granting entitlements to women in agriculture and farm widows needs to be addressed 

Kerala farmers grow vanilla for profit

Thampi Thomas, an advocate-turned-planter of Kolenchery in south Kerala, sold raw vanilla beans for Rs 500 per kilogramme (kg) in 1999. During …

Burdened with bumper crop

Faulty procurement, rising farm inputs force West Bengal farmers to commit suicide

Maharashtra grape farmers worried as unseasonal rains, hail wipe out 50,000 acres of vineyards

Almost 25 per cent of the export has been affected, claim farmers

A land of their own

Society thinks women do not want to own land. That’s where it is wrong

Time for climate lesson

A Nepal school that imparts practical knowledge to farmers

'Ours by right'

Water crisis

Dangerous

Farmers oppose Tamil Nadu government's new project

Rural credit system is not working

Moneylenders are their bane

Maharashtra CM for Art of Living to check Vidarbha suicides

Blog on Vidarbha suicides

Vidarbha compensation package inadequate

Price support, not loans, can save Vidarbha farmers

Kerala says no to GM crops

Operation ambush blackbuck

Living on love and fresh air