agriculture

Crisis in India’s bread basket
How agriculture, capital and corporate investment have reshaped Indian Punjab, and brought about its current precarity
Shreya Sinha | Sep 16, 2023

On night patrol in Sri Lanka’s human-elephant conflict zone
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
Roshan Gunasekare | Mar 03, 2023

Is Kerala’s pokkali the rice of the future?
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
Sandeep Sreelekha | Feb 09, 2023

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
