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May 7, 2019
Pinky, a young, motivated girl, grew up in a remote tribal village called Kharkhabharri in the Nagri block of Chhattishgarh. Her family mainly depended on agriculture and forest dwelling for a living.
February 14, 2017
PRADAN proudly announces PRIDE, a collaborative project to create a transformative impact in the lives of 100,000 rural women across 6 states in India, around multiple well-being dimensions with support from the IKEA Foundation.
December 19, 2016
Khushboo Joshi, Hindustan Times, Bhopal Practices of organic farming introduced by Professional Assistance for Development Action (Pradan), an NGO, in Paraswada block of state’s Balaghat district […]
February 27, 2023
This is the second blog out of two where we will learn about rodent characteristics in four villages in Madhya Pradesh, India. In the previous blog we learned about the rodent species in 4 villages in Madhya Pradesh and how these small mammals damage crops at an average 25%.
May 7, 2019
“Kadam badhaa ke chalna hain toh pao pasaare mat baitho…” (If we want to move ahead, let’s not remain idly seated), rings a determined voice of Wasima, from a small hamlet in Bahadurganj block of Bihar. True to her words, rural women from Muslim communities in North East Bihar are bringing change, one step at a time, for justice and equality.
February 24, 2023
As change agents why do we need to know how to work with people, does it need any special skill set? These are frequently asked questions to ponder over.
May 8, 2019
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.
January 12, 2022
Farmers of Nayagram block of West Bengal would work with all their might round the year to earn
Rs.60,000 or so. That was all to meet their family expenses. Their crop looked exotic, but could never
fetch handsome cash income from the local market.
February 27, 2023
Seventy-five years of planned development have not helped in the betterment of the adivasi community
February 23, 2023
A look at how the evolution of organic farming in India is harming farmers by ‘deskilling’ them.