Researchers discuss the potential of subseasonal weather forecasting – and the important role it can play to optimize agricultural production and help reduce farmer vulnerability to climate-related disasters.
Degradation of uplands destroys their ability to store water – but it can be quickly reversed, according to researchers who brought a rainwater harvesting system back to life in central India.
A study from Karnataka shows how decades of agricultural and forestry choices upset an ancient balance, turning a district of 3,000 tanks into a district of 30,000 boreholes.
A study conducted in the Eastern Gangetic Plains, where a significant portion of them were women, showed that landless and marginal farmers gained from collectives individually - and as a whole.
In Nepal, the legal quota for women’s participation in official community water management groups marks an important step towards gender equality. For meaningful change however, there also needs to be structural transformation.
For years, farmers in the coastal zone of Bangladesh have continually braced for a multitude of challenges. And the solution lies in working with farmers, communities and local institutions, combining low-tech water management innovations with better coordination and new crop varieties.
In the "land of five rivers", groundwater depletion has been catching up fast - as it has been doing over all states of India, and it urgently calls for a broader and more viable approach driven by the food-energy-water nexus.
The new framework assists insurers and implementers to reach disadvantaged groups, who are often overlooked in weather-based insurance schemes, to help those farmers recover and rebuild.
The Ramsar certified wetlands of Colombo – the complex system of lungs that helps the city ward off climate change stresses - are under grave threat, due to unmanaged growing problem of rubbish disposal.
Anthropocene’s pressure for agricultural production and conservation need not be at warpath, but in fact bring the solution for health, equity production and sustainability
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