January 9, 2020

Revitalizing Agriculture through Infrastructure and SHG Empowerment (RAISE)

We are happy to announce RAISE, a three-year project that has started in partnership with Aditya Birla Capital Limited. The goal of RAISE is to develop an integrated model of sustainable people..
December 16, 2019

Bora Baandh initiative of Ghaghra farmers

December 11, 2019

Indigenous paddy cultivation in Kharika Mathani: Anandabazar Patrika, Jhargram

November 27, 2019

How to End Delhi’s Pollution

The issue of air pollution across northern India, especially in the cities and towns of the Gangetic basin, has assumed the magnitude of a national calamity. Over 50 million people in Delhi-NCR are directly affected, with the air quality index plummeting to “severe”.
November 27, 2019

In Jharkhand, kadhais keep anaemia at bay

Around 85% of women in Jharkhand’s Torpa block, about 70km from capital Ranchi, suffer from anemia. This means profuse bleeding during periods, fatigue and various kinds of aches and pains.
September 30, 2019

APC Odisha Project bags SKOCH Gold

We are proud to announce that our project ‘Promotion of Agriculture Production Clusters (APCs) in Tribal Regions of Odisha’ has received the prestigious SKOCH Governance Award 2019 on 26th September 2019.
September 4, 2019

Greening the Earth

Ten years, 62 villages, 1,060 acres. 1,32,000 trees planted!! Leveraging Spl. SGSY and MGNREGA all those saplings were planted that led to a substantial transformation of […]
September 4, 2019

Food, food, everywhere but not enough to eat

Picture: Getty Images As erratic weather patterns and depleting resources complicate the many factors of food security in India, change is coming, from ground up The […]
May 8, 2019

‘One Home – Hundred Women’
by Ajay Gupta

About 500 people, mostly belonging to the Madiya Gond tribe, inhabit the Katakanda village in Darbha block of Bastar district in Chhattisgarh. Being marginal farmers with an average annual income of Rs. 30,000 and literacy level as poor as 26 per cent, the Katakanda villagers lacked the confidence to address issues that had kept bothering them since ages. Even, raising their voices for the malpractices in the local Ration shop was something they avoided.
May 8, 2019

Co-travelers of Infinite Uncertain Nights
by Smruthy V Sasidharan, Sarai

March, April, May are months with special relevance for families in Nayatola, Bikhjhariya, and several other villages of Sarai tehsil in Madhya Pradesh. Most of them, being marginal or small-holder farmers, depend on their neighboring forests to collect Mahua and Tendu leaves, along with a variety of other non-timber forest products.