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Food and Nutrition
Who is the thirstiest of them all?
Posted on 23 Sep, 2020 12:34 PMAgriculture uses as high as 85 percent of the available water in India of which the irrigated area accounts for nearly 48.8 percent of the 140 million hectare (mha) of agricultural land, while the remaining 51.2 percent is rainfed.
![Paddy, a thirsty crop (Image Source: IWP Flickr photos)](/sites/default/files/styles/featured_articles/public/iwp/paddy1_0.jpg?itok=B7W2Utpc)
Gendered impacts of COVID-19
Posted on 20 Sep, 2020 09:15 PMCOVID-19 has unleashed one of the greatest human tragedies of the contemporary era demonstrating our fragility and has laid bare severe and systemic inequalities at all levels. It provides several lessons in the conduct of all aspects of human personality, professional, societal, and institutional lives globally.
![The time-use survey indicates that women are now spending more time on unpaid domestic and care work (Image: Sunita, Pixabay)](/sites/default/files/styles/featured_articles/public/iwp/rural-woman-sunita-pixabay.jpg?itok=I04ZKPQv)
Agriculture and food security challenges amid Covid-19
Posted on 09 Sep, 2020 03:32 PMIndia has seen large scale rural-urban migration of people trying to escape rural distress in the last few decades.
![Women farmers produce vegetables through innovative farming practices in Banka, Bihar. They can sell their produce at regional markets, and earn a better income for their families. (Image: USAID, Flickr Commons, CC BY-NC-ND 2.0)](/sites/default/files/styles/featured_articles/public/iwp/women_4.jpg?itok=beHGsoUt)
Think, before you have your cup of tea!
Posted on 19 Aug, 2020 06:58 PMIndia is the second largest tea producer in the world, with production at 1.2 million metric tons
![Women workers at a tea plantation in Assam (Image Source: Wikimedia Commons)](/sites/default/files/styles/featured_articles/public/iwp/tea_garden_0.jpg?itok=gFVVd7Zj)
Amphan’s impact on farming and livelihood in Sunderbans
Posted on 11 Aug, 2020 05:46 PMThe Amphan cyclone has disfigured the lives of people living in the Sundarbans. Houses have been torn apart, farms have been filled with brackish water making the land unsuitable for farming and betel leaves have been destroyed. People in the Sundarbans are in a life-threatening situation with makeshift shacks to live in and no means to earn a living.
![Betel (popularly used in paan) plantation is a major occupation in the Sundarbans. Pulak Bhakta is assessing the damage done to his plantation right after Amphan. The plantation is spread over two and a half bigha of land. According to Pulak, the total loss he has suffered is around INR 3 lakhs. Pulak already bears the burden of a loan which he had taken to set up his plantation. His future seems uncertain and bleak now. (Image: WaterAid/ Subhrajit Sen)](/sites/default/files/styles/featured_articles/public/iwp/l1_0.jpg?itok=H8B88b9L)
Surviving in uncertainty
Posted on 08 Jul, 2020 07:33 PMUncertainty - the pervasive feeling that all of us have been living with from the middle of March 2020. It's the same in our partner villages in Odisha and Jharkhand. Communities we work with have been facing and overcoming uncertainties all through their lives. But this time, the crisis has put unusual stress on their abilities to cope.
![Image: Ajaya Behera](/sites/default/files/styles/featured_articles/public/iwp/akb_6198_credit_ajaya_behera.jpg?itok=3nFnAido)
Boosting rural livelihoods using agriculture and MGNREGA amidst Covid-19
Posted on 28 Jun, 2020 10:13 AMAs the Covid-19 pandemic was leaving deep scars around the globe, it forced governments to take measures to protect citizens and ensure food security for its people. In India, initially, it looked as if the remote rural areas would skirt the pandemic.
![MGNREGA can play an important role in integration of migrant labour in the rural economy (Image: Ashutosh Nanda)](/sites/default/files/styles/featured_articles/public/iwp/mgnrega_2_0.jpg?itok=QoVfpQsd)
Flood threat looms amid Covid-19 in Bihar
Posted on 23 Jun, 2020 03:09 PMBihar’s annual floods are right around the corner and there is a fear that the flood hazard will collide with the Covid-19 pandemic and amplify it in a manner that emergency responses to both will get disrupted. The state’s strategy to mitigate the effects of flooding needs to be updated in light of the deadly pandemic.
![An aerial view of flood affected areas in Kosi river, Bihar on August 28, 2008 (Image: Publi.Resource.Org; Flickr Commons (CC BY 2.0))](/sites/default/files/styles/featured_articles/public/iwp/bihar_floods_2.jpg?itok=6mJGI6sa)
Battling Covid-19 in Jharkhand
Posted on 11 Jun, 2020 04:07 PMJharkhand is a state dominated by tribal communities located in eastern part of India. Agriculture, NTFP (Non-timber forest produce) collection and daily wage laborers are the prime source of income for rural Jharkhand.
![Distribution of ration to cope with the impacts of the pandemic (Image Source: WOTR)](/sites/default/files/styles/featured_articles/public/iwp/jharkhand6.jpg?itok=_fLcYYpI)
Lockdown puts citymakers at risk
Posted on 28 May, 2020 01:22 PMSuddenly thrown out of work by a nationwide lockdown, the migrants who built our cities and our economies were forced to take the torturous walk away from the cities to their homes in rural India.
![A worker at a construction site (Image: ILO/ Joydeep Mukherjee; NC-ND 3.0 IGO License)](/sites/default/files/styles/featured_articles/public/iwp/construction_worker-ilo-asiapacific.jpg?itok=6naFzw13)