Fisheries

While dams are said to play a crucial role in meeting growing water demands, generating energy, and protecting from floods, controlled water release from dams can significantly impact the ecosystem of estuaries and the fish living in its waters.

What are estuaries

Odisha emerges as the only state to guarantee quality drinking water on household tap connections

Tribals in Kerala cultivate millets, revive an age old tradition

The forest rights act helps women take lead to protect their forests in Odisha

Technological innovations in agriculture and fishing have been thought to increase production, productivity, and income, alleviate poverty and reduce workloads. However, they can affect men and women differently by reinforcing gender inequalities, restrict access, and displace women as newly mechanised tasks become the domains of men.

Small-scale fishers in India are increasingly forced to migrate for their livelihoods, but new research from the University of East Anglia (UEA) finds this can have positive impacts not always seen when labourers have to move for work.

In 2018, when the communities of Ghatanji Block in Yavatmal attended a workshop about the Panchayat Extension to Scheduled Areas (PESA) Act, the information accessed brought about a shift in their perspective, where they felt empowered to reclaim common resources that rightfully belonged to them.

Communication technologies aid fisherfolk in Kerala to remain safe during the monsoons

Tamil Nadu unveils organic farming policy with a focus on promoting chemical-free agriculture

Greater Chennai Corporation plans to set up 47 'sponge parks' to prevent street flooding