World migration report 2024
The International Organization for Migration (IOM) launched the World Migration Report 2024, which reveals significant shifts in global migration patterns, including a record number of displaced people
Women
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Women SHG sets up Rs 1 cr industrial unit
Pune In probably the first of its kind move in Pune, a women self-help group has set up a polythene bag producing industrial unit with an investment of Rs one crore. Set up by the Swamini Mahila Bachat Gat Akhil Mahasangh, Yamuna Nagar, it will be inaugurated by Shirur MP Shivaji Adhalrao Patil on Thursday. The unit promises to provide employment to 70 women.
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The hookah the Indian waterpipe
The hookah, a waterpipe, originated in India and became popular for smoking tobacco. It spread elsewhere and acquired other names like nargile, shisha, goza and hubble-bubble, before its popularity declined in India. A resurgence of hookah smoking is occurring in India and around the world, and is being promoted as safer than cigarette smoking.
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A call centre for pregnant women, ailing children
Aarti Dhar GUNA (M.P.): Round-the-clock call centres across the world are known for doing business, but the one here runs to save lives
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Opting for a cleaner surroundings
Of the 149 households, only ten had toilets. The challenge of making Idgah Hills open defecation free was huge, but the community chose to change.
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Nutrition challenge
View image Fifty per cent child deaths are due to malnutrition 230 million people in rural India are undernourished They account for 27 per cent of the world
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On women surviving farmer suicides in Punjab
How have women been coping in the aftermath of farmer suicides in Punjab?
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Gender and climate finance: double mainstreaming for sustainable development
Climate change is real, it is happening already, and its impacts on people are not gender-neutral. It is affecting men and women all over the world differently, especially in the world
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Indian Farm Forestry Development Co-operative Limited (IFFDC) Wasteland Forestation Project
<p>This document details the IFFDC Wasteland Forestation Project plantations in the states of Uttar Pradesh, Madhya Pradesh and Rajasthan. The project has assisted farmers, especially women, to promote forestation on wastelands and marginally productive lands by organising Primary Farm Forestry Co-operatives (PFFCs) and thus making it a people's participative programme. <br />
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Biofuels for sustainable rural development and empowerment of women: case studies from Africa and Asia
<p>This book of case studies represents a collaborative effort to explore the potential of biofuels to provide sustainable livelihoods and local sources of energy for people in rural areas of developing countries, with a special emphasis on women.
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Stakeholders approach for medicinal plants cultivation: A case study from Tamil Nadu
India is recognized as one of the countries having the oldest, richest and most diverse cultural traditions associated with the use of herbal medicines. But due to over-harvesting in their natural habitats, many medicinal plants have been put on the endangered list of IUCN.