May 21, 2026
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
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.
April 17, 2026
What does it really mean for an organisation to be a thought leader? Beyond strategy and articulation, this piece looks at the small, often unnoticed moments where learning either opens up or shuts down, revealing how leadership is less about authority and more about how groups think, question, and make meaning together.
March 24, 2026
Niwas block in Madhya Pradesh's Mandla district receives more than 1,200 millimetres of rainfall every year, an amount that should, in theory, sustain farming across seasons. Located in the eastern reaches of the state, Niwas falls under the Northern Hills of Chhattisgarh Sub-Agro Climatic Zone, a landscape of light alfisol soils that struggle to hold water and are easily worn away by rain. The land here does not lack rain. What it lacks is the ability to hold it.
January 31, 2026
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
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 11, 2025
Across India, nearly 51% of the net sown area remains rainfed, contributing to about 40% of the country’s total food production (Ministry of Agriculture & Farmers Welfare, GoI).
September 25, 2025
“Mai punarjeevi krishi takneek 2024 se istemaal kar rai hu. Ye jameen aur paryaavaran dono ke lie achha hai. Harr kisaan ko ye takneek istemaal karni chahiye kheti karne ke lie” (I have been using regenerative farming techniques in my land since 2024.
September 9, 2025
Phoolmati Hansda, a resident of Binkarwa hamlet in Hazaribagh district of Jharkhand, spends several hours each day fetching water. Her journey covers nearly two kilometres, cutting across uneven plateaus, dipping into lowlands, and weaving through dense forest paths. For Phoolmati and many others in her hamlet, this daily trek is not just a routine but a reminder of the difficult terrain they must cross to meet their most basic need - access to water.
June 23, 2025
“Mai punarjeevi krishi takneek 2024 se istemaal kar rai hu. Ye jameen aur paryaavaran dono ke lie achha hai. Harr kisaan ko ye takneek istemaal karni chahiye kheti karne ke lie” (I have been using regenerative farming techniques in my land since 2024.