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ActionAid India
Challenges for pastoral communities in eastern India
Financial difficulties have pushed some pastoralists to give up their customary work
Posted on 21 Aug, 2023 10:36 AM

India is home to a thriving community of pastoralists whose lifestyles represent one of the oldest and most sustainable systems. These herders practice mobility, moving their livestock from one climatic region to another every year in search of adequate food, suitable pastures, and grasslands.

Adapting migratory pastoralists to climate change in India (Image: CGIAR; CC BY-NC-ND 2.0)
ActionAid Association provides emergency relief to communities battered by floods in India
Heavy rains and flooding have ravaged parts of north India recently
Posted on 21 Jul, 2023 09:35 AM

Northern India was battered by heavy rains over the past two weeks, with New Delhi marking its wettest day on July 9th, 2023, in more than 40 years, according to officials and local media.

ActionAid provides relief as the flood situation in north India wreaked havoc on the lives and livelihoods of people (Image: ActionAid Association)
Building solidarities for just futures
Conclave brings together people’s collectives who have been defending the rights of marginalised communities
Posted on 16 Jun, 2023 08:37 PM

ActionAid Association, in its commitment to work with the most marginalized communities and to build community-led initiatives, hosted a two-day national conclave on June 9- 10, 2023, in Delhi.

The conclave highlighted the challenges and instances of marginalization that exist due to factors such as land dispossession, forced displacement, lack of access to education, healthcare, and basic amenities, and limited representation in decision-making processes. (Image: Simon Williams/Ekta Parishad; Wikimedia Commons)
Securing land rights for deprived urban communities
ActionAid drives change for deprived urban communities' rights to land, housing, and basic amenities
Posted on 30 May, 2023 05:39 PM

Highlights

Communities assert their right to urban land (Image: Abraham Chacko, Flickr Commons, (CC BY-NC-SA 2.0))
IPCC climate report - a warning call
Synthesis report of IPCC AR6: Grounded action needed to ensure social and ecological justice
Posted on 23 Mar, 2023 12:22 PM

The Synthesis Report of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change Sixth Assessment Report is a warning call for action on the quickly closing opportunity of keeping global warming below 1.5 degrees centigrade. Unless fossil fuels are rapidly retired, the impacts of climate change already faced by vulnerable communities will become difficult to handle.

The Sixth Assessment Report of the United Nations Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change is the sixth in a series of reports which assess scientific, technical, and socio-economic information concerning climate change (Image: Wallpaperflare)
Union Budget 2023-24: Poor need more focused attention
Reduced allocation to MGNREGA will reduce employment days available, let alone solve the question of payment of pending wages.
Posted on 09 Feb, 2023 08:14 PM

The Union Budget 2023 has given significant relief to the middle classes; however, India’s vast majorities of working people in rural areas and the cities need more focused attention. We may have come out of the COVID-19 pandemic, but the precarity of employment continues.

Women farmers at work in their vegetable plots near Kullu (Image: Neil Palmer (CIAT)/Wikimedia Commons)
Agriculture and informal sector labour need a budgetary push
What initiatives should the 2016-17 budget include for the agriculture sector? ActionAid India’s submission to the Ministry of Finance looks at these.
Posted on 08 Feb, 2016 08:46 AM

Recent data from the National Sample Survey Organisation (NSSO) as well as the Agriculture Census highlighted the plight of Indian farmers. Around 85 percent are small and marginal farmers with an average monthly income of only Rs. 4653, which is lesser than their monthly expenses. Debt rates are very high among farmers with an average loan of more than Rs.

A farmer in Jhansi, Bundelkhand
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