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Rainfed Agriculture
Climate change: When past presents itself
Posted on 24 Jun, 2016 08:40 PMSummers get hotter, rains decline and crops fail. The conflict between people increase and migration in search of better lands and skies begin. Sounds familiar? We are not talking about Marathwada here. This is how the lives of our ancestors played out thousands of years ago.
![A narrow lane flanked by houses at Bhirrana. Source: Archaeological Survey of India](/sites/default/files/styles/featured_articles/public/iwp/hakra1.jpg?itok=-dtnP4xF)
Farm ponds save village from drought
Posted on 21 Jun, 2016 09:09 AMVikram Patel, a 71-year-old farmer in Chidavad village of Dewas district in Madhya Pradesh is one of the first farmers to have embraced the idea of farm ponds to increase the groundwater level in his farm.
![Vikram Patel near his farm pond in Chidavad.](/sites/default/files/styles/featured_articles/public/iwp/_dsc0004es.jpg?itok=5l6BCsNU)
Business interests and environmental crisis: A book review
Posted on 05 Jun, 2016 07:03 AMA number of Asian countries are going through environmental crisis. Nowhere is the impact felt so seriously than in India, where the crisis threatens to affect survival. It is also impacting biodiversity, ecology and livelihoods. In this context, it becomes important to understand how nature and the current environmental crisis are being addressed in policy discourses.
![Business profits and the environmental crisis (Source: India Water Portal)](/sites/default/files/styles/featured_articles/public/iwp/enviroment.jpg?itok=brBjUxtQ)
A lac cooperative’s success story
Posted on 17 May, 2016 11:04 AMThe farmers of Jharkhand have long been depending on lac farming for their livelihood. Lac, a resin extensively used in preparation of a range of products - from cosmetics to ammunition - is cultivated on a variety of trees, mostly fruit-bearing and shady trees like Ber, Kusum, Palash and Sal.
![TRCSC promoting lac based products like bangles through training of over 200 women members of SHGs](/sites/default/files/styles/featured_articles/public/iwp/bangles.jpg?itok=8daPJtaf)
Water management for climate resilient agriculture
Posted on 12 May, 2016 11:04 AMAlthough agriculture is the largest source of livelihood for people in India, its share in the gross domestic product (GDP) has been declining over time with
![Agriculture and climate change (Source: India Water Portal)](/sites/default/files/styles/featured_articles/public/iwp/rainfed_agriculture_0.jpg?itok=G0EYZ02K)
Good monsoon expected this year
Posted on 18 Apr, 2016 09:20 PMGood southwest monsoon expected this year as El Nino declines
![Downpour in Bihar (Source: IWP Flickr Photos)](/sites/default/files/styles/featured_articles/public/iwp/2245920465_b010a7ff2f_z_1.jpg?itok=BH5qj8kp)
Union Water Minister inaugurates 4th India Water Week 2016
Posted on 05 Apr, 2016 09:56 AMIndia Water Week 2016 with the theme 'Water for All: Striving together' inaugurated in New Delhi
![4th India Water Week 2016 (Source: Embassy of Israel)](/sites/default/files/styles/featured_articles/public/iwp/unnamed_1.jpg?itok=KZ75B_Oo)
Maharashra issues water advisory for Holi
Posted on 22 Mar, 2016 06:05 PMReservoir levels dip, Maharashtra urges people to celebrate dry holi
![Holi being celebrated (Source: Wikimedia Commons)](/sites/default/files/styles/featured_articles/public/iwp/barsana_holi_festival_1.jpg?itok=pyeDc9z4)
Small scale fishworkers fishing for jobs elsewhere
Posted on 19 Mar, 2016 01:31 PMChinna, 35, harvests fish and is engaged on a piece rate basis by the local contractor who has rights to fishing in the village tank in Anantapur, Andhra Pradesh. At times, Chinna also uses family labour to complete his work.
![Traditional fishers livelihoods are directly threatened by mechanised fishing methods (Source: Vikas Sahayog Kendra, Palamau)](/sites/default/files/styles/featured_articles/public/iwp/vsk.jpg?itok=otJIBut5)
Rs 38,500 crore allocated for MGNREGA in Budget 2016
Posted on 29 Feb, 2016 09:56 PMAgriculture, rural development and social sector is the focus of Budget 2016
![Labourers building check dams under MGNREGS (Source: IWP Flickr Photos)](/sites/default/files/styles/featured_articles/public/iwp/5498477595_b432f838e5_z_0_1_0.jpg?itok=YLz4mHDs)