Amita Bhaduri

Living through Cyclone Amphan and Covid-19: Climate change and water security

In the face of frequent cyclones and floods in the region, investment and long term planning is needed on making basic services of drinking water resilient. Amita Bhaduri posted 4 years 1 month ago

Millions of people in India and Bangladesh lost their means of employment, food, water and homes in one go during the cyclone (Image: Srikanth Kolari/ActionAid India)

Covid-19 hits women’s access to menstrual hygiene products

The lockdown has adversely impacted access to menstrual hygiene information and products, reveals a survey by the Menstrual Health Alliance India. Amita Bhaduri posted 4 years 1 month ago

Menstrual cycle and personal hygiene items (Image: Marco Verch, Attribution 2.0 Generic (CC BY 2.0); Flickr Commons)

Agricultural crop substitution can bridge rural and urban water needs

Rural and urban water crisis in India can be addressed through adaptive changes in current agricultural practices, as per a study in Maharashtra by the Indian School of Business. Amita Bhaduri posted 4 years 1 month ago

Cropping pattern in Maharashtra over the past 40 years has shifted towards water-intensive crops like sugarcane (Image: Terry Sunderland/CIFOR)

Lockdown puts citymakers at risk

The forced exodus of the migrants who built our cities indicates how they were shortchanged on every front. Amita Bhaduri posted 4 years 1 month ago

A worker at a construction site (Image: ILO/ Joydeep Mukherjee; NC-ND 3.0 IGO License)

Covid-19 threatens to worsen India's water crisis

Regulations for water use, innovation for treating antimicrobial resistance and monitoring of infected plastic leakage needs to be prioritised to curtail the water crisis. Amita Bhaduri posted 4 years 1 month ago

Marine litter. Plastic bottles on a beach. (Image: Bo Eide, Flickr Commons; CC BY-NC-ND 2.0)

Technology to build knowledge and capacities beyond COVID

The time has come to utilize technology to build resilience of communities by training them to strive for better livelihood opportunities where they want to. Amita Bhaduri posted 4 years 2 months ago

Bringing the digital revolution to the hands of real India (Image: CXOToday.com)

Impact of climate change on river basins in India

Climate change impact, adaptation and vulnerability assessment no longer a speculative, academic endeavor. Amita Bhaduri posted 4 years 2 months ago

Global warming (Image: Sunando Roy, Flickr Commons, CC BY-NC-ND 2.0)

Covid-19: Managing the disaster in rural India

There is a need to rethink our disaster management policies and the top-down approach that it follows. Amita Bhaduri posted 4 years 2 months ago

Drought in Marathwada (Image: Flickr Commons)

Developing an effective participatory groundwater monitoring program at village level

Issues in groundwater management and recharge have been dealt with in a series of booklets as a part of the MARVI project. Amita Bhaduri posted 4 years 2 months ago

One of the Bhujal Jankaars measuring groundwater levels manually (Image: Basant Maheshwari)

Ensuring food security in times of Covid-19

A study conducted in 47 districts indicates that over half of the surveyed households are eating less during lockdown. Amita Bhaduri posted 4 years 2 months ago

The prolonged lockdown has increased the dependence of farmers on food supply through the public distribution system as well as the need to grow a good crop in kharif season. (Image: UNESCO)

Building resilience of communities during and beyond Covid-19

Interventions that increase dependencies and use of local resources to resolve challenges locally can help increase resilience of farmers. Amita Bhaduri posted 4 years 2 months ago

People were following social distancing in villages while collecting water (Image: INREM)

Need to build inclusive cities in the post-pandemic world

It’s time that public policy focuses on a radical re-envisioning of urban spaces and on improving social inclusion of migrants in urban settings. Amita Bhaduri posted 4 years 2 months ago

Migrants on their way home during the countrywide lockdown (Image: Stranded Workers Action Network)

Horticulture pile-up, yet farmers stare at losses in Kachchh

Robust arid region horticulture in the water-scarce arid region of Kachchh, but without improved value-addition for increased shelf-life, farmers faced with a crisis. Amita Bhaduri posted 4 years 2 months ago

Date palm plantation in Kachchh (Image: Prayaas: The Movement of Grassroot Changes)

Coping with Covid-19: Options before small and marginal farmers of rainfed regions

There is a need to have basic institutional structures such as market, credit, insurance, research, extension service etc., in place in rainfed regions. Amita Bhaduri posted 4 years 2 months ago

Community economies - Reconstructing rural economy with ecological sustainability and ethics of equity

Collective management, participation and equity are the foundations on which community economies are sustained. Amita Bhaduri posted 4 years 2 months ago

Johads in Nanduwali nadi region (Image: Farhad Contractor, IWP Flickr)

Village institutions take a lead in Covid-19 response

Institutions are a key arsenal in rural India's pandemic fight. Amita Bhaduri posted 4 years 2 months ago

In the light of disrupted food supply systems, especially for fresh produce, the village institution arranged for harvesting and sale of produce. (Image: FES)

Transforming lives in the Covid-19 context: MGNREGS and its potential

India can use its flagship public employment program (MGNREGS) to transform lives of its underprivileged population in the Covid-19 context, and live up to its promise of a welfare state. Amita Bhaduri posted 4 years 2 months ago

Women working on an NREGA site building a pond to assist in farming and water storage. Gopalpura, Jhabua, Madhya Pradesh (Image: UN Women/Gaganjit Singh, Flickr Commons)

Self sufficiency in the times of Covid-19

Utthan promotes self-sufficient food production areas with internal dependencies, as the pandemic causes disruptions from food to fork. Amita Bhaduri posted 4 years 2 months ago

A ‘people to people’ social solidarity enterprise in the times of Covid-19 (Image: Utthan)

Covid-19: The road back home

A rapid study highlights the plight of homebound migrant workers of Mirzapur and Prayagraj districts of Uttar Pradesh after Lockdown 1.0 Amita Bhaduri posted 4 years 2 months ago

Millions of migrants rushed to return to their villages amid the lockdown (Image: Pixabay/balouriarajesh. Pixabay licence)

Covid-19: Oxfam India responding with relief in 14 states

Oxfam India along with its partners is striving to broaden its humanitarian relief response to fight coronavirus. Amita Bhaduri posted 4 years 2 months ago

Oxfam India is concerned about the impact Covid-19 could have on the most vulnerable communities (Image: Oxfam India)