This exploration of the deepening crisis of food security in India looks at four case studies, dealing respectively with Punjab, Warangal, Kalahandi, and Bellary. These are interspersed by insights into a movement in the Himalayas that may offer alternatives in the form of sustainable agricultural systems, which revive traditional agricultural practices (Beej Bachao Andolan).
This is a portrait of an environmental migrant from the Sundarbans, West Bengal, who, like thousands before her, is vulnerable and powerless against the fury of the sea.
The documentary contrasts the results of using genetically-modified crops purchased from multinational agrochemical corporations with the maintenance of community seedbanks and biodiversity.
Experts in history, history of science, archaeology, geography, and environmental studies examine the history of the region.
From its polluted landscapes to its poisoned workers, India is paying a heavy price for Europe’s desire for cheap cotton.
An essay review of books by Arun Agrawal, Peder Anker, David Arnold, Gregory A. Barton, Richard Drayton, and S. Ravi. Rajan.
This paper examines the important and pioneering role played by Dr. Hugh Cleghorn, a Scottish medical surgeon, in the implementation of forest conservancy in colonial India.
This paper employs the case of India’s forest administration to illustrate how the political-economic environment, authoritarianism and internal culture have militated against forest conservation and the incorporation of rural interests in forest management.
This paper discusses the historical identity of the Indian Forest Service, the elite environmental organisation which controlled and managed nearly a third of India during the late nineteenth century.
Prasad counters the proposition that pre-colonial, caste-based, natural resource management regimes were superior, in terms of stability and coherence, to colonial regimes.
