The great experimenter
For ages, Indian farmers have practised ecofriendly farming by using local resources to improve soil fertility and control pests and diseases. …
Washed, clean and green
The Vankars of Gujarat have reclaimed saline wastelands in Gujarat after 9 years of bloody struggle
No news is bad news
A dearth of information brought brickbats to the department of wastelands development, which was entrusted the Herculean task of reducing the …
Plant prospects
The stubborn juliflora, which grows mostly in drylands and wastelands, is now invading arable areas. One still speculates about the repercussions
Saving the earth
Techniques developed by villagers in Himachal Pradesh can be integrated into plans to reclaim rocky wasteland in the hills
Engulfed by the ravines
Once a throbbing rural business centre, Birahrua, in Morena district of Madhya Pradesh, is now haunted by devilish gullies
New hope for Himalayan wastelands
The seabuckthorn plant can change the lives of marginal farmers by enriching soil with nitrogen, preventing its erosion and providing …
Women build where others destroy
Why do women who attempt changes in local land use patterns meet with so much hostility?
Wonder plant
An eco-friendly plant, the Senna can be used to regenerate wastelands with less water and without pesticides
Let the drylands bloom
By maintaining terrestrial forestation to improve the soils, drylands can be saved from being further degraded
Apocalyptic vision
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Corporate wastelands
Tamil Nadu seems set to gift community land to corporates under the name of wasteland regeneration
Desert blooms
Halophytes - plants growing on saline soil - could be India's Answer to the problems of salt desert and wasteland reclamation, besides Being …
Himalayan upheavals
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How an urban planner undertook green recovery in Telangana’s 72 ULBs
Extensive mapping, designing of parks with detailed cost estimates and implementation frameworks were prepared as part of the project
The new Money plant
The seeds of a plant called jatropha yield oil that, after processing, makes biodiesel. It can reduce India's burgeoning oil import bill. And …
Taken by the horns
Gujarat buckles under farmers’ pressure, shrinks special investment region planned for industries
Nirma whitewash
Detergent company Nirma gave false information to obtain clearance for its cement plant in coastal Saurashtra. Environment ministry to inspect …
Government introduces land amendment bill amid protests, walkout
Farmers and civil society groups march on Delhi streets to protest Narendra Modi government’s anti-farmers and anti-people bill which …
The great wetland robbery in Kakarapalli
Police open fire, but people resolute to weed out power plant from wetland in Andhra Pradesh
Green Credit Rules will negatively impact forest ecology, say experts
Former forest official alleges Centre wants to facilitate ‘ease of business’
Good people
A praiseworthy decision
Pitted with scars
Excessive mining hits coastal Gujarat hard
Technology for the poor
Wasteland maps can help frame poverty alleviation programmes