Recycling Plastic or Recycling Promises: Why India’s Landfills Keep Growing
The Ghazipur landfill in Delhi now rises nearly as high as a seventeen-storey building. Trucks…More
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India Beats Climate Change At Wasting Food: The Cold Storage Conundrum
Indian news outlets often show our farmers throwing food on the highway or selling their…More
Banking on the banks of River Ganga
For forty years, India has tried to clean the Ganga the way it builds highways,…More
The Sacred Filament: Can Lotus Silk Redefine Sustainable Luxury?
It is the early 1900s in Kyaing Khan village in Myanmar’s Shan region. A 50-year-old…More
Seeds of Power (Part 2): Centralisation, Corporations, and the Future of India’s Food
While Part 1 of our series on the Seed Management Bill examined what it means…More
Seeds of Power: What India’s New Seed Management Bill Means for Farmers
Who decides what you eat? Is it you, standing in a supermarket or mandi aisle?…More
Empowering Indian Farmers for the European Green Deal
Recognising the growing implications of the European Green Deal (EGD) for Indian agricultural exports and…More
The Problem With Growing More at Any Cost and Why India’s Seed Model Needs Rethinking
All’s well that ends well. But does it? Economists, policymakers, and administrators often point to…More
50-Year-Old Pesticides in a Modern India?
Imagine a typical Indian farm. The farmer sowed the seeds a couple of weeks ago,…More
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…More