Amita Bhaduri

Overcoming heavy odds to emerge as a WATSAN model

How women came together in a Junagadh village to tackle drinking and domestic water shortage effectively. Amita Bhaduri posted 5 years 4 months ago

AKRSP has promoted rainwater harvesting to address the issue of scarce potable water at Mangrol. By encouraging households to collect rainwater using pipes on their roofs which then drain into an underground tank they have been able to promote water security. (Image: Aga Khan Foundation Flickr)

Decoding budget 2020

Is the budget a bummer? Experts speak at a panel discussion organised by CBGA. Amita Bhaduri posted 5 years 4 months ago

Woman farmer sifting grain (Image: Ray Witlin/World Bank CC BY-NC-ND 2.0)

Budget 2020: Is the allocation enough to meet the piped water dream

Experts discuss if the budget has enough funds for water access and security. Amita Bhaduri posted 5 years 4 months ago

Just 21.4 percent of India’s households have access to piped water, as per NSSO data (Image: Niyantha Shekar, Flickr Commons; CC BY-NC 2.0)

Managing commons: Need and challenges

How can technology, knowledge and capacity creation help in management of commons? Amita Bhaduri posted 5 years 5 months ago

Plantation in Gomala (Image: Foundation for Ecological Security)

Perils, politics and prospects of groundwater in India

How can India change the game on groundwater management to deal with its overexploited aquifers? Amita Bhaduri posted 5 years 5 months ago

An irrigation well at Randullabad, Maharashtra. (Image source: India Water Portal on Flickr)

What's there for water in the budget kitty?

Budget fails to allocate enough to turn the rhetoric of tap water to each household into reality. Amita Bhaduri posted 5 years 5 months ago

The budget allocation suggests that the predominant focus of the Ministry of Jal Shakti continues to be on water resources development rather than water resources governance or management (Image: Brian Gratwicke, Flickr Commons, CC BY 2.0)

Mountain women bear the brunt of climate change

There is a need to enable a conducive action oriented environment to address entrenched gendered vulnerabilities. Amita Bhaduri posted 5 years 5 months ago

Women stand to be highly vulnerable in most cases to the changes in the climate and its extremes. (Image: Bo Nielson, Flickr Commons, CC BY-NC-ND 2.0)

Rubber monoculture: Death knell for agrobiodiversity

A study looks at the subjective well-being of an indigenous community of Tripura amidst the transition from shifting cultivation to monoculture of natural rubber. Amita Bhaduri posted 5 years 5 months ago

Tripura had the highest rate of growth of rubber plantation during the first decade of the millennium as compared to any other state (Image: Flickr Commons)

Climatic shocks wreak havoc on the Mahanadi delta

Much of the Mahanadi's deltaic coast is experiencing varying degree of erosion, a situation which is expected to worsen by 2050. Amita Bhaduri posted 5 years 5 months ago

The people living in the Mahanadi delta are forced to cope with frequent disasters, but recent progress in warnings, evacuation and shelters seems to have reduced losses. Urban areas in the delta are expanding and there is rural to urban migration which can be expected to continue. These urban areas will have important implications for the future of the delta. (Image: Helmer, Flickr Commons)

Neeru and the Nilgiris

Conserving springs, small hill wetlands and their catchment in the Nilgiris. Amita Bhaduri posted 5 years 5 months ago

A view of the Nilgiris (Image credits: Golkul Halan)

India’s food systems in transition

A recent book looks at solutions to the various obstacles that impede India’s various food sub-systems. Amita Bhaduri posted 5 years 5 months ago

Organic food (Image: P L Tandon, Flickr Commons, CC BY-NC-SA 2.0)

A climate change wake-up call

Climate change can lead to large-scale economic knock-on effects, says a McKinsey Global Institute report. Amita Bhaduri posted 5 years 5 months ago

Heat-exposed work has produced about half of India’s GDP, and employs about 75 percent of the labor force. There will be a need to shift working hours for outdoor workers and undertake heat management efforts (Image: Ian D Keating, Flickr Commons, CC BY 2.0)

Can ruin of quality forests be made up by plantations?

There is a gain in forest cover outside forest land as per the 'State of forest report 2019'. But, can reforestation replace natural forests and its essential ecosystem? Amita Bhaduri posted 5 years 5 months ago

Chir pine trees felled by forest fires in Uttarakhand, 2016 (Image: Ramwik, Wikimedia Commons, CC BY-SA 3.0)

Karnataka farmers cope as wells fail

A study looks at how households adapt to slow-moving environmental changes such as groundwater depletion. Amita Bhaduri posted 5 years 5 months ago

An irrigation well at Randullabad, Maharashtra (Image source: India Water Portal on Flickr; Image used for representational purposes only)

Is zero budget natural farming the way forward?

Zero budget natural farming can lead to huge savings in fertiliser subsidy, says study Amita Bhaduri posted 5 years 5 months ago

Alternative agriculture practice called zero-budget natural farming being popularised in Andhra Pradesh by Rythu Sadhikara Samstha, Government of Andhra Pradesh (Image: Council on Energy, Environment and Water)

Water policy for rainfed areas

The new national water policy should take up a comprehensive and integrated view of water resources development with a focus on rainfed areas. Amita Bhaduri posted 5 years 5 months ago

Public investments on water in rainfed areas have much higher social rate of returns (Image: Kannan, Flickr Commons, CC BY-NC-ND 2.0)

Kerala tops SDG index by NITI Aayog

Bihar, Jharkhand and Arunachal Pradesh are at the bottom of NITI Aayog's SDG Index, released recently. Amita Bhaduri posted 5 years 5 months ago

Considering the poor performance on SDG implementation in many critical areas such as hunger, there is a need to focus on these (Image: The future of food)

If she built a country: A film review

The film looks at corporate grab of forest and private lands in the Scheduled Areas of Chhattisgarh. Amita Bhaduri posted 5 years 6 months ago

The documentary brings attention to how development interventions changed gender relations (Image courtesy: People's Film Collective)

Nilogon for fluoride removal from groundwater

This unique low cost fluoride removal technology is not only affordable, but is also easy to operate as a water treatment filter with high efficiency suitable for rural application. Amita Bhaduri posted 5 years 6 months ago

Studies by the Central Ground Water Board in November 1999 confirmed the presence of fluoride in Assam which paved the way for the UNICEF and the government to collaborate on fluoride mitigation. (Image: India Water Portal)

Junk food red alert

A study by CSE rings the alarm bells on processed food responsible for obesity and non-communicable diseases. Amita Bhaduri posted 5 years 6 months ago

The study by CSE underlines the need to regulate bad food (Image: Ankur Gulati, Flickr Commons)