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Sustainability
Can rice residues be turned into wealth?
Posted on 22 Jan, 2023 11:26 AMSustainable management of surplus paddy residue in the Indo-Gangetic plain is a back-breaking task for farmers due to lack of viable options. Eventually, farmers prefer to incinerate it mindlessly.
![A controlled burn on long-term conservation agriculture trials (Image: CIMMYT)](/sites/default/files/styles/featured_articles/public/2023-01/4688689431_04ed7e3a34_o.jpg?itok=yqYHUXpP)
How to save Joshimath?
Posted on 17 Jan, 2023 01:12 PMOn January 7, 2023 Joshimath city in Uttarakhand was declared a land subsidence zone. About 60 families have been moved to temporary relief centers from their houses that have become unlivable. Another 90 families are yet to be shifted to safer places. Joshimath city has a total of 4500 buildings out of which 610 have suffered major cracks.
![Warnings were being given for some decades that Joshimath would sink one day (Image: Vaibhav, Wikimedia Commons)](/sites/default/files/styles/featured_articles/public/2023-01/Joshimath_Snow.jpg?itok=y2E8EYxO)
Fostering innovation in the green cooling sector
Posted on 07 Jan, 2023 08:53 AMAs temperatures rise across India, so will the demand for cooling. Severe heat waves, responsible for thousands of deaths across India over the last few decades, are increasing with alarming frequency.
![Can India meet its growing domestic demand while also position itself as a manufacturing hub for cooling technologies? (Image: Gije Cho, CC)](/sites/default/files/styles/featured_articles/public/2023-01/cooling-2.jpg?itok=GUllG8Cq)
Localised impacts of irrigation on economic development
Posted on 01 Jan, 2023 06:16 AMPolicymakers in developing countries have long emphasised improvements in agricultural productivity as a central strategy for promoting rural development.
![Buckingham canal near Kasturba Nagar, Adyar (Image: India Water Portal)](/sites/default/files/styles/featured_articles/public/2023-01/23218679170_0baa4f5115_o.jpg?itok=BduzRGL2)
Factors influencing crop diversification in Himachal Pradesh
Posted on 28 Dec, 2022 04:29 PMClimate change has become a major threat to agriculture and rural livelihoods and can lead to rural poverty and migration and cause overexploitation of natural resources such as water, land and forests informs this study titled 'Is crop diversification vulnerable to climate, agricultural and socio-economic facto
![Crop diversification to cope with climate shocks in Himachal Pradesh (Image Source: Wikimedia Commons)](/sites/default/files/styles/featured_articles/public/2022-12/HP%20crops.jpg?itok=cwCn3sUH)
Traditional agroforestry takes over jhum cultivation in Arunachal Pradesh
Posted on 27 Dec, 2022 04:39 PMJhum , a traditional land-use system in which a patch of the forest is utilised for agricultural cultivation for a few years and then shifted to a new site for the next cycle, has been widely practised in North East India (NEI) for years because it was found to be best suited for the climate and topography of the region.
![The hilly landscapes of Arunachal Pradesh (Image Source:Chakraborty.jishu Via Wikimedia Commons)](/sites/default/files/styles/featured_articles/public/2022-12/1600px-Landscape_of_Arunachal_Pradesh.jpg?itok=DsLGyIno)
The water that you eat
Posted on 06 Dec, 2022 11:38 AMWhat was your water consumption today?
If I were to quickly calculate this, I would add up the litres of water I drank, the water I used up in cooking, washing, cleaning, and bathing; and quickly tell you that I used up around 80 litres of water. Your total would also be somewhere in the ballpark.
![Historically, India has been a net exporter of virtual water (Image: PxHere)](/sites/default/files/styles/featured_articles/public/iwp-images/lead_2.jpg?itok=FTwTflbu)
A successful model of integrated farming system in Koraput
Posted on 03 Dec, 2022 07:23 AMRapid population growth is leading to land fragmentation and reducing the amount of cultivable land available to owners. This trend of declining land ownership combined with natural disasters is reducing the viability and sustainability of agriculture.
![Mangaraj's farm is a model for the region (Image: Tripati Khura)](/sites/default/files/styles/featured_articles/public/iwp-images/mangaraj.jpg?itok=hSKdOIhh)
Supporting social businesses from rural India
Posted on 11 Nov, 2022 09:03 AMNSRCEL- the innovation and entrepreneurship hub of IIM Bangalore, has signed an MoU with Yunus Social Business Fund Bengaluru (YSBFB), the pioneers in social business financing and scaling.
![YSB’s mission is to promote social business as a sustainable alternative to long-term aid, bridging the gap between business and philanthropy (Image: YSB website)](/sites/default/files/styles/featured_articles/public/iwp-images/yunus.jpg?itok=ZQYGTdow)
Children demand ecological rights ahead of COP-27
Posted on 07 Nov, 2022 12:51 PMAhead of the Conference on Climate Change COP 27 at Egypt, PRATYeK, a registered organization with UN ECOSOC status, known for its national child led-advocacy initiative NINEISMINE, hosted an online event NO COP OUT on November 4 and 5, along with coalition partner
![Millions of children face the brunt of climate change in their day to day lives. There Is No Planet B (Image: Blaine O'Neill; Flickr Commons, CC BY-NC 2.0)](/sites/default/files/styles/featured_articles/public/iwp-images/4201801271_79c2ee10d2_k.jpg?itok=theeKzca)