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May 18, 2024
Empowering women through socio-technical innovations
A case study of women-led climate resilient farming by Swayam Shikshan Prayog
Building the resilience of women farmers (Image: ICRISAT, Flcikr Commons)
April 25, 2024
The heat is on: Invisible, unprecedented, and screaming for new solutions
Understanding the impact of heat on our world
Rising temperatures, rising risks (Image: Kim Kestler, publicdomainpictures.net)
March 30, 2024
India needs gender responsive strategies to cope with climate change impacts
A recent study finds that climate change induced extreme weather events such as droughts can increase the vulnerability of women to Intimate Partner Violence (IPV).
Droughts affect women the most (Image Source: Gaurav Bhosale via Wikimedia Commons)
January 22, 2024
Baseflows contribute to river floods in Peninsular India
This study finds that baseflows have a stronger triggering effect on river floods in Peninsular India as compared to rainfall and soil moisture.
River floods and groundwater, the connection. Image for representation purposes only. (Image Source: India Water Portal)
July 14, 2023
Fourteen Indian states have better resilience to floods
These states are at the forefront of flood early warning systems
Previously drought-prone areas are now facing floods (Image: Needpix)
July 7, 2023
How to increase climate resilience in semi-arid farming systems
WOTR study throws important new findings
The study by WOTR and Wageningen University researchers emphasizes the need to prioritize adaptive capacities alongside agricultural productivity (Image: WallpaperFlare)
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Raising Sardar Sarovar Dam height would be disastrous: Committee
News this week
Swati Bansal
Posted on 16 Jun, 2015 11:16 AM

Committee warns against raising Sardar Sarovar Dam height
Sardar Sarovar Dam (Source: Shahakshay, Wikipedia)
Facing uncertain rains, farmers dig in
Bankura in West Bengal receives 1000 mm of rainfall a year, yet thousands of adivasi farmers in the area were faced with irrigation issues -- until 'happas' came to the rescue.
Amita Bhaduri
Posted on 20 Apr, 2015 12:40 PM

Amulya Soren couldn’t get stable yields in the kharif (monsoon) paddy in his farm. A member of the Santhal tribe, he was the beneficiary of a surplus land redistribution programme in Hirbandh block of Bankura, West Bengal. The undulating terrain in which his farm lies receives sufficient rainfall of about 1000 mm a year, yet sufficient irrigation was an issue.
Farmers constructing happa; Image: PRADAN
Brick kilns take the Ganga away from Patna
News this week
Swati Bansal
Posted on 13 Apr, 2015 08:16 PM

596 brick kilns along Ganga's banks are pushing it away from Patna
Brink kiln in Doddaballapur
Predicted impacts of droughts on agriculture and food production
The paper presents the findings of a study that attempted to estimate the effect of rainfall on the supply and demand sides of agricultural commodities, and their implications on prices.
Praduman Kumar
P K Joshi
Pramod Aggarwal
Posted on 12 Apr, 2015 10:56 PM

Climate change has been predicted to create increasing risks for the agricultural sector thus inversely affecting agricultural production and farm incomes in India. These risks have already manifested in the form of increasing intensity and extent of droughts, floods, temperature rise and fall, and other calamities in the country.
Severe droughts (Source: Wikimedia Commons)
Kashmir under danger of floods
News this week
Swati Bansal
Posted on 31 Mar, 2015 12:30 AM

Fear of floods looms over Kashmir again
Landslide and a flooded river
Water, through an artist's lens
Photographer Arjun Swaminathan speaks to India Water Portal about his journey so far, which includes filming water stories.
Aarti Kelkar Khambete
Posted on 30 Mar, 2015 08:36 AM

How did your interest in filming water stories come about? Is there any particular issue on water that has interested you? What has guided your selection?
Search for water (Source: Arjun Swaminathan)
Drought and the desert: They don't go hand in hand here
With its low rainfall, western Rajasthan might seem like a prime candidate for drought, but the combination of old age wisdom and new age techniques have helped Barmer access fresh water continuously.
Manu Moudgil
Posted on 23 Mar, 2015 09:15 PM

Women in bright, colourful clothes carrying pots on their heads -- this is how popular media often depicts the women of rural Rajasthan. This is what I expected to see in the Bakhasar region of Barmer district, which borders the famous salt desert, the Rann of Kutch. The groundwater is often saline and rainfall does not exceed 250 mm.
Beris serve both people and their livestock.
Land Bill opposed in the Rajya Sabha
Policy matter this week
Swati Bansal
Posted on 17 Mar, 2015 04:28 PM

Opposition to the Land Acquisition (Amendment) Bill
Construction activity on what was once a farm land
Unseasonal rains damage crops worth Rs 10,000 crore
News this week
Swati Bansal
Posted on 09 Mar, 2015 08:47 PM

Rabi crop damaged in north and central India
Rainy clouds hovering over Manipur's farmland
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