Health & Nutrition

June 4, 2026

El Nino: Impacts on Rural Livelihoods, Farming, and Pathways for Mitigation

El Nino is a climate pattern that occurs in the Pacific Ocean. El Nino is characterized by the warming of sea surface temperatures in the central and eastern tropical Pacific, which can have significant impacts on weather patterns around the world.
May 21, 2026

Aajeevika Dabri: A Step to Advance Water Security and Livelihood Resilience for Vulnerable Rural Households

Access to assured irrigation and diversified livelihood opportunities plays a critical role in enabling full-time farming, improving farmer incomes, and building sustainable rural livelihoods. In Chhattisgarh, over 40 lakh households depend primarily on agriculture and farm-based labour for their income.
May 13, 2026

Designing for Ownership: Lessons from a Tool Bank Experiment

Forests are often spoken about through maps, statistics, and species lists; measured in hectares, cover percentages, and biodiversity indices. Yet for communities who live alongside them, forests remain far more complex and, in many ways, mysterious.
January 31, 2026

Beyond Species Lists: What Participatory Tree Ranking Reveals About Forest Livelihoods

Forests are often spoken about through maps, statistics, and species lists; measured in hectares, cover percentages, and biodiversity indices. Yet for communities who live alongside them, forests remain far more complex and, in many ways, mysterious.
January 22, 2026

We Ate Last. We Led First.

When I first arrived in Torpa block of Khunti district, Jharkhand in June 2017, I was inducted into PRADAN as a Development Apprentice (DA), at the very start of my career. I had completed my Master’s in Sociology from Banasthali Vidyapith, Rajasthan, and this role came through a campus placement.
December 10, 2021

Embedding Traditional Knowledge About Diet and Health Into Learning Resources

The Sustainable Food Systems project aims to address food and nutrition security alongside gender equality in the poorest regions of India and seeks to increase dialogue around diet and health and share knowledge. One way to enable communities to reclaim traditional knowledge about diet and health is through curriculum development.
November 21, 2020

Local Food: The Future of Our Village Economy

The COVID pandemic has brought about an unexpected realization among villagers—the value of their traditional food items and practices, which are resilient, sustainable and can be relied upon to help them live through any crisis
September 24, 2020

Adolescent Girls Embrace their Period

By letting go of the shame and secrecy that girls experience about having their period and by openly having discussions and understanding about why they have a period every month, the girls are sending a very powerful message, challenging their subjugation in society
April 6, 2018

Women and Anaemia

The article focuses on the necessity to improve personal and individual lives, an aspect that has so far been ignored in the endeavour to bring about financial stability by enhancing livelihood
October 5, 2017

When the Ravaging Flood Waters Recede

Hearing about floods and actually experiencing the death and destruction it wreaks are totally different; the PRADAN team realizes this as it struggles to find solutions to counter the devastating effects that the receding waters leave behind for the villagers