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Land Acquisition
Pastoralists demand land rights as Banni grasslands of Kutch readied for cheetah breeding
Posted on 05 Feb, 2024 03:31 PMMaldharis demand land rights as government readies Banni grasslands of Kutch for cheetah breeding
![Maldharis grazing buffaloes (Image Source: A. J. T. Johnsingh, WWF-India and NCF via Wikimedia Commons)](/sites/default/files/styles/featured_articles/public/2024-02/Maldharis%20grazing%20buffaloes.jpg?itok=mIaGrVNa)
Agricultural landownership among rural women in India
Posted on 24 Dec, 2023 09:23 AMIt is now widely recognised among policymakers and practitioners that women’s ownership of agricultural land is an important determinant of their economic and social status, physical security, and the wellbeing of their family informs this paper titled 'How many and which women own land in India?
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Preserve the ecological integrity of rivers
Posted on 28 Nov, 2023 04:04 PMThe India Rivers Forum is a vibrant and active network of organisations and individuals that are committed to the conservation and safeguarding of our rivers against needless and detrimental development. Every year, India Rivers Forum organises the India Rivers Week to raise awareness regarding these issues.
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Tamil Nadu may charge fees for commercial groundwater extraction: Upcoming revisions to State Water Policy
Posted on 15 Nov, 2023 09:19 AMTamil Nadu’s initiative to enhance water policy and management: Updates expected by January
![Need to push for tough laws to restrict groundwater overextraction (Image: Rawpixel)](/sites/default/files/styles/featured_articles/public/2023-11/ntpc.jpg?itok=stn1RhUp)
Building solidarities for just futures
Posted on 16 Jun, 2023 08:37 PMActionAid Association, in its commitment to work with the most marginalized communities and to build community-led initiatives, hosted a two-day national conclave on June 9- 10, 2023, in Delhi.
![The conclave highlighted the challenges and instances of marginalization that exist due to factors such as land dispossession, forced displacement, lack of access to education, healthcare, and basic amenities, and limited representation in decision-making processes. (Image: Simon Williams/Ekta Parishad; Wikimedia Commons)](/sites/default/files/styles/featured_articles/public/2023-06/Young_Baiga_women%2C_India.jpg?itok=_lVI-U7B)
Covid-19 could push 260 million Indians into poverty: Research
Posted on 20 May, 2020 10:42 AMNearly 260 million Indian could be pushed to poverty due to Covid-19: Researchers
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Out of the frying pan into the fire
Posted on 11 Apr, 2020 06:35 PMWhile the Covid-19 pandemic has wreaked havoc worldwide, India continues to be in the line of fire. While cases continue to rise, India also is experiencing a crisis of another kind, that of the lockdown affecting the livelihoods of a huge number of farm migrants working in cities.
![Farm women, the worse sufferers of the Covid 19 pandemic (Image Source: Seema Kulkarni)](/sites/default/files/styles/featured_articles/public/iwp/seema_photo1.jpg?itok=rgPdesjz)
Can ruin of quality forests be made up by plantations?
Posted on 18 Jan, 2020 04:49 PMThe recently released biennial State of India’s Forest Report 2019 (SFR) indicates an improvement in forest cover since 2017 but dense forests continue to turn into non-forests.
![Chir pine trees felled by forest fires in Uttarakhand, 2016 (Image: Ramwik, Wikimedia Commons, CC BY-SA 3.0)](/sites/default/files/styles/featured_articles/public/iwp/ramwik.jpg?itok=eW9-8MkI)
2019 was the seventh warmest year on record since 1901: IMD
Posted on 10 Jan, 2020 10:55 AM2019 was the seventh warmest year on record in 118 years: IMD
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If she built a country: A film review
Posted on 04 Jan, 2020 10:49 AMMaheen Mirza’s film ‘Agar wo desh banati/ If she built a country’ looks at the widespread displacement on an unprecedented scale for mines and industries in Raigarh, Chhattisgarh.
![The documentary brings attention to how development interventions changed gender relations (Image courtesy: People's Film Collective)](/sites/default/files/styles/featured_articles/public/iwp/desh1.jpg?itok=WpnNTpJD)