Women farmers play a crucial role in South Asia’s agricultural sector and contribute significantly, despite facing numerous challenges. The intersection of climate change, gender, and health can have disproportionate
A section of India's farmers emphatically supported the Dunkel Draft, saying it contains just what they have been demanding for years.
<i>The Hindu</i> of December 13, 2006 published a write-up on Singur on its op-ed page: "Some facts, please' by <font class="UCASE">cpi(m</font>) politburo member and leading intellectual Brinda Karat. She was countering what she called a smear campaign against the <font class="UCASE">cpi</font><font class="UCASE">m)</font> over the acquisition of land for the proposed Tata Motors project at Singur. There are some more facts, however, that I would like to bring to her notice. But before that I would also like to thank her for having brought some key issues to the fore.
Livestock farmers and environmentalists in the Netherlands are clashing over the number of pigs that can be reared
Pulse production in India is touching an all time high, but the benefits are reaching only a few because most farmers are ignorant about the new, easier to grow varieties, and about agronomic practices that would make the crop less of a risk.
What runs the small farming economy?
BANGLADESH'S second largest waterbody, Beel Dakatia, once a 31,566-ha tract of flourishing agricultural land and balanced ecology, has been flooded with brackish water for the past decade. A dyke
The full introduction of the North American Free Trade Agreement (nafta) has raised concerns among Mexico's farmers who are agitating against it. With nafta kicking in fully on January 1, 2008,
Chidanandamurthy, a professor of Kannada and president of the Anti Japanese Township Forum, says the Japanese township project offers no advantages and will only exacerbate the state's problems.
Indian farmers grapple with debt as economy grows
Maharashtra legalises contract farming, says farmers interests won t be harmed
