The Ghazipur landfill in Delhi now rises nearly as high as a seventeen-storey building. Trucks continue to unload waste at its base every day, even ...

For forty years, India has tried to clean the Ganga the way it builds highways, by funding big projects, awarding contracts, and measuring progress in ...

Indian news outlets often show our farmers throwing food on the highway or selling their produce in a distress sale. Truckloads of onions or tomatoes ...

It is the early 1900s in Kyaing Khan village in Myanmar’s Shan region. A 50-year-old weaver, Daw Sa Oo, is said to have noticed the ...

While Part 1 of our series on the Seed Management Bill examined what it means for farmers on the ground, the Bill’s other far-reaching consequences ...

Who decides what you eat? Is it you, standing in a supermarket or mandi aisle? Is it the farmer sowing seeds and harvesting crops? Or ...

All’s well that ends well. But does it? Economists, policymakers, and administrators often point to the Green Revolution as one of India’s greatest achievements since ...

Imagine a typical Indian farm. The farmer sowed the seeds a couple of weeks ago, and now the first few leaves are blossoming. Suddenly, the ...