agriculture

A new border in the old republic
The class and caste-based contradictions within India’s farmers’ protest.
Aditya Bahl | Apr 28, 2021

Sowing Revolution
Agroecology as an alternative to India’s failed agrarian system.
Milind Wani | Jun 02, 2014

Seeding the future
The use of modern seeds stands to erode the genetic diversity of local seed varieties in Nepal
Smriti Mallapaty | Jul 15, 2013

From jumia to Jumma
Shifting cultivation and shifting identities in Bangladesh’s Chittagong Hill Tracts.
Prashanta Tripura | Apr 20, 2013

Industrial farming versus the peasantry
India’s government is going the ‘agritech’ route while low-input organic farming is better suited to smallholder farming households.
Aruna Roy & Nachiket Udupa | Oct 01, 2010

Contradictions of capitalism
Even as Sri Lanka’s smallholder agriculture dies a slow death, schemes to save the rural economy are only coming from urban intellectuals.
Sunil Bastian | Oct 01, 2010

Charting change
From the Himalaya to Male, there are clear signs that climate change is real.
Kunda Dixit | Oct 01, 2009

Seeding disaster
Corporate monopoly over seeds is not the answer to the global food crisis, but rather an unacknowledged cause of it.
Kamalesh Adhikari | Mar 12, 2009

A Gangetic pesticide soup
Synthetic pesticides are not only present in our rivers, agricultural fields and groundwater – they are also within our people. We can ban these chemicals, but what is out there is already out there.
Samir Kumar Sinha | Sep 01, 2006
