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Eastern India highly vulnerable to climate change, says study
Posted on 23 Mar, 2022 10:46 AMClimate data gathering at the district level is essential for risk planning, developing coping strategies, and adaptation, especially considering that the impacts of climate variability, climate change, and extreme events are visible globally and in India.
![Climate projections for the eastern states at the district level for the period 2021–2050 (the 2030s) indicate a warmer and wetter future (Image: Save the Children)](/sites/default/files/styles/featured_articles/public/2022-03/cyclone.jpg?itok=lc3kL9b-)
Understanding disaster risks as a systemic construct
Posted on 20 Mar, 2022 09:56 AMAgainst the backdrop of human-induced hazards and disaster risks, the Sendai Framework for Disaster Risk Reduction (SFDRR) articulates the need for an improved understanding of disaster risk in all its dimensions of exposure, vulnerability, and hazard characteristics as well as the strengthening of disaster risk governance (UNDRR, 2015).
![Countries are engaged in empowering communities to adapt to the new normal (Image: Pixabay)](/sites/default/files/styles/featured_articles/public/2022-03/pandemic.jpg?itok=xSSfxrkZ)
Pharma antibiotics polluting Indian rivers, says Toxics Link study
Posted on 17 Mar, 2022 06:52 PMA new study by Toxics Link, 'Menace of Antibiotic Pollution in Indian Rivers' has found that rivers are now prone to pollution from antibiotic residues.
![Antibiotic residues in rivers can worsen the problem of antimicrobial resistance (Image: PxHere; CC-0)](/sites/default/files/styles/featured_articles/public/2022-03/antibiotic.jpg?itok=U5HsLW0f)
Impact of climate change on agricultural livelihoods of women
Posted on 11 Mar, 2022 06:39 PMThe aim of the forum was to discuss the impact of climate change on agricultural livelihoods of women. The forum threw light on the deep disparities between the work women have access to relative to men and the significant gender gap prevailing amongst agricultural casual workers. Women’s wages are at least 30 percent lower than male wages.
![A pearl millet farmer with part of her harvest (Image: ICRISAT, CC BY-NC 2.0)](/sites/default/files/styles/featured_articles/public/2022-03/farmer.jpg?itok=UYmW8nTJ)
Assistant Program Lead – Water, Research and Training
Posted on 08 Mar, 2022 01:02 PMEvery person across rural India deserves to lead a more secure, prosperous, and dignified life.
Impact of climate change on agricultural livelihoods of women: March 8, 2022
Posted on 07 Mar, 2022 05:01 PMJoin us for the upcoming forum on March 8, 2022 from 11:30 AM-12:30 PM on the ‘Impact of Climate Change on Agricultural Livelihoods of Women'. Climate Change is a threat across the globe to all livelihoods but people working in agriculture, especially women, are more burdened by the impact of climate change. This will further widen the inequalities in agriculture.
A tool for crop choice integrates gender and farmer's preferences
Posted on 06 Mar, 2022 10:55 AMAn inclusive participatory approach to facilitate the inclusion of marginalised individuals and groups, including women and the very poor, in agricultural intensification processes was developed as a part of a project undertaken in West Bengal, India and Bangladesh
![Promoting socially inclusive and sustainable agricultural intensification in West Bengal and Bangladesh (Image: ACIAR)](/sites/default/files/styles/featured_articles/public/2022-03/agri.jpg?itok=rBD2ASlZ)
Economics of India’s adaptation and resilience pathways
Posted on 02 Mar, 2022 08:47 PMIn the year 2021 India witnessed multiple intense cascading risk scenarios.
![An assessment of the cost and priorities of climate adaptation in different regions can strengthen resilience and warning systems. (Image: Max Pixel CC0)](/sites/default/files/styles/featured_articles/public/2022-03/Climate-Earth-Hour-Planet-Climate-Change-Globe-4776711.jpg?itok=vm4O_1_x)