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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)
Making every drop count: Micro-irrigation for tribal farmers of Gujarat
Posted on 11 Mar, 2022 03:41 PMThe Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) has recently released the second part of the Sixth Assessment Report – ‘Climate Change 2022: Impacts, Adaptation, and Vulnerability’.
![A key mitigation strategy to deal with water scarcity due to climate change is on-farm management of water using techniques like micro-irrigation (Image: India Water Portal Flickr)](/sites/default/files/styles/featured_articles/public/2022-03/microirrigation.jpg?itok=YA5JogfR)
Agents of change: Women in solar irrigation
Posted on 08 Mar, 2022 07:44 PMTouted as the one of the most innovative technologies in agriculture, solar irrigation pumps have been accelerating India’s renewable energy transition.
![A woman cleaning a solar panel (Image Source: IWMI)](/sites/default/files/styles/featured_articles/public/2022-03/Solar%20panels.jpg?itok=IWtc7dGD)
Ceramic pot filter - to make drinking water safe
Posted on 07 Mar, 2022 05:42 PMOne of the principal risks to public health is the lack of access to safe drinking water. The Millennium Development Goals by the World Health Organisation (WHO) focus on the target of halving the proportion of people without access to safe drinking water.
![Making drinking water safe (Image: PxHere)](/sites/default/files/styles/featured_articles/public/2022-03/Safe%20drinking%20water.jpg?itok=Vxk4Dplp)
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)
IPCC releases second part of sixth assessment report, calls for Climate Resilient Development
Posted on 02 Mar, 2022 02:55 PMClimate change will harm India's economy: IPCC
![Multiple climate hazards projected for India in IPCC's recent report (Image source: IWP Flickr photos) Image for representation only.](/sites/default/files/styles/featured_articles/public/2022-03/3223419498_af6be3ea11_c%20%281%29.jpg?itok=EOvHCcDb)
New Plastic Waste Management (Amendment) Rules, 2022 announced
Posted on 02 Mar, 2022 02:07 PMPlastic Waste Management (Amendment) Rules, 2022: Centre notifies guidelines on EPR for plastic packaging
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Budgetary trends for drinking water in Gujarat: Special focus on tribal communities
Posted on 28 Feb, 2022 01:31 PMThere is a myriad of government schemes and programmes working towards improving water access across the country. Tracking all these initiatives can be cumbersome. The priority that the centre and the states accord to various sectors through the budgetary allocations gives an idea about where the government’s priorities really lie.
![The SCALE project implemented in villages in semi arid regions enabled ultra-poor groups in project villages improve their access to drinking water (Image: European Union, Flickr Commons)](/sites/default/files/styles/featured_articles/public/2022-02/scale.jpg?itok=KFKiiPSA)
Grappling with disaster risks
Posted on 21 Feb, 2022 08:18 PMGiven its geographic and climatic diversity, India is exposed to a variety of hazards that have forced its governments and communities to address risk, adapt to threats, and improve disaster resilience.
![A flood damaged road alongside the River Alaknanda in Chamoli district in Uttarakhand on June 18, 2013 (Image: AFP Photo/ Indian Army; Flickr Commons)](/sites/default/files/styles/featured_articles/public/2022-02/landslide.jpg?itok=st-S4U62)