Slide Background
Sustainable Choices,
Better Lives.
Nitrogen fertilisers are killing Indian soil

Nitrogen: India’s Favourite Fertiliser, and the Slow Damage It Is Doing

India feeds itself on nitrogen. Unfortunately, that is not a metaphor. It is an intentionally created budget line, a supply chain, and a deeply entrenched policy ...
Indian coffee is loved by Europe

 A Crisis Brewing: Why Indian Coffee Needs Urgent Attention

India may still be a tea-loving nation, but coffee has firmly won over its younger consumers. The country now drinks 91,000 to 120,000 tonnes of ...
Indian heavy industries are under CBAM pressure

CBAM Is About to Reshape Indian Heavy Industries

Factories in the steel towns of eastern India, such as Jamshedpur, Rourkela, and Jharsuguda, begin operations before sunrise. The conveyor belts and furnaces power up ...
EGD sensitisation workshop in Andhra Pradesh

EGD Sensitisation Workshops for Tobacco Farmers across Andhra Pradesh

Recognising the importance and urgency of preparing India’s FCV tobacco sector for the European Green Deal (EGD), Team Sustainable Alternatives conducted a series of sensitisation ...
Groundwater is India's newest trade barrier

The Next Trade Barrier India Is Not Ready For: Groundwater

India’s export economy has learned to worry about carbon. It has scrambled to decode Europe’s rules on deforestation, pesticides, traceability, and sustainability reporting. But as ...
Indian biopesticides are now essential

Can Indian Biopesticides Save Indian Farming from European Green Deal?

For decades, Indian agriculture relied on an extensive range of chemical pesticides and fertilisers to maximise yields. Many of these products, though effective, carry active ...
India's cheap labour may prove to be costly

India’s Cheap Labour is Now a Trade Liability

For years, the world has looked at India as a place of cheap labour, where the price differences give a huge economic advantage to global ...

The Plastic Recycling Scam Hiding Behind India’s EPR Policy

What should be the top priority for a country that's one of the world’s largest contributors to plastic pollution? Build a system that doesn’t let ...