Events

Organiser: Centre for Sustainable Agriculture

Venue: St Ann' Generalate,
               Tarnaka,       
               Secunderabad

Centre for Sustainable Agriculture is a professional resource organization engaged in establishing models of sustainable agriculture working in partnership with NGOs and community based organizations by scaling up the successes and engaging with the establishment for a policy change. CSA believes in promoting sustainable agricultural technologies that are based on farmers’ knowledge and skills, their innovation based on local conditions and their use of nature’s products and processes to gain better control over the pre-production and production processes involved in agriculture. CSA works with farmers to conserve their resources and their rights.

Organisers: Applied Environmental Research Foundation (AERF) and Save the Western Ghats Group

Venue: Mahabaleshwar,
                  Maharashtra Tourism Development Corporation Complex

Applied Environmental Research Foundation with the support of Save the Western Ghats group is proud to announce the celebrations of 25 years of Save the Western Ghats march. A meeting of some civil society organizations and other stakeholder from various walks of life will be organised.

Organiser: Indian Society of Agricultural Information Technology (INSAIT)

Venue:  International Institute of Information Technology,
              Gachibowli,
             Hyderabad,

The INSAIT professional society was launched at Dharwad, India in the year 2000. So far INSAIT has organized two national conferences and one International Conference, since its inception in the year 2000. The first national conference on Agro-Informatics was organized in June 2001, at the University of Agricultural Sciences (UAS), Dharwad and the second national conference on Agro-Informatics and Precision Farming was organized in December 2009 at UAS, Raichur. The fifth International Conference of the Asian Federation for Information Technology in Agriculture (AFITA), Japan was organized by INSAIT in November 2006 at Indian Institute of Science, Bangalore.

A one day Area Water Partnership Conference was held on 22^nd July, 2012 by Shramik Bharti, Kanpur; Society for Action in Community Health (SACH) and Society for Promotion of Wastelands Development (SPWD), New Delhi at Jajmau, Kanpur, an industrial city on the banks of the Ganga which also happens to be a major centre for leather tanneries, which let out

Organiser: Wipro Earthain

Venue:  National Gallery of Modern Art,
              Manikyavelu Mansion,
              49, Palace Road,
              Bangalore 52

'Earthian Sustainability Program for Schools and Colleges' is designed to act as a catalyst for fostering excellence in sustainability thinking and doing amongst young people. The annual awards program is a first step towards a deeper engagement with children and young adults in schools and colleges. Earthian is Wipro's sustainability program for schools and colleges and you can learn more by visiting www.wipro.org/earthian.

Umendra Dutt speaking about Kheti Virasat Mission

Organiser: Watershed Organisation Trust (WOTR)

Venue:   Watershed Training Centre
                    Village Darewadi,
                    Taluka Sangamner,
                    Ahmednagar, Maharashtra

WOTR is a not-for-profit NGO founded in 1993 operating currently in five 5 Indian states – Maharashtra, Andhra Pradesh, Madhya Pradesh, Rajasthan and Jharkhand. WOTR provides capacity building and advisory services to developmental practitioners from 23 other Indian states as well as, occasionally, from 27 countries.

Organiser:  The Centre for Science and Environment (CSE)

Venue: CSE
                  41, Tughlakabad Institutional Area,
                  New Delhi

CSE is a public interest research and advocacy organisation based in New Delhi. CSE researches into, lobbies for and communicates the urgency of development that is both sustainable and equitable.

A round table conference was jointly organized by Ganga Sewa Mission (GSM), Hazrat Saleem Chisti Foundation (HSCF) and India International Centre (IIC) on 14^th and 15^th July in New Delhi. Nearly 100 persons participated in the two days conference held at IIC.