agriculture

How agriculture, capital and corporate investment have reshaped Indian Punjab, and brought about its current precarity

Hambantota in Sri Lanka has been on the frontline for human-elephant conflict for years. 2022 was the worst year yet, with a death toll of 433 elephants and 145 people

Pokkali is one of the oldest rice varieties in Kerala. It became prominent for its salt-tolerant and flood-resistant properties and is now being pitched as a climate-adaptive crop

The class and caste-based contradictions within India’s farmers’ protest.

Agroecology as an alternative to India’s failed agrarian system.

The use of modern seeds stands to erode the genetic diversity of local seed varieties in Nepal

Shifting cultivation and shifting identities in Bangladesh’s Chittagong Hill Tracts.

India’s government is going the ‘agritech’ route while low-input organic farming is better suited to smallholder farming households.

Even as Sri Lanka’s smallholder agriculture dies a slow death, schemes to save the rural economy are only coming from urban intellectuals.

From the Himalaya to Male, there are clear signs that climate change is real.