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Is India’s Millets Policy Headed in the Right Direction?

Deepanwita Gita Niyogi 20/08/2020

Despite the Green Revolution, which favoured rice and wheat,...

Himalaya, food security, food insecurity, land degradation, land use change, rain-fed agriculture, Hindu Kush Himalaya, HKH region, Nepal, Bhutan, Jammu, Kashmir, Ladakh, Himachal Pradesh, Uttarakhand, Sikkim, Arunachal Pradesh, Manipur, Meghalaya, Mizoram, Nagaland, Tripura, Assam, West Bengal, dryland, COP14, desertification, UNCCD, Food and Agriculture Organization, urbanisation, sustainable development goals,

Climate Change: People of Asia’s Mountains Face Severe Food Insecurity

Nivedita Khandekar 19/09/2019

In only five years since 2012, the rural mountain...

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UN Working to Tackle Havoc Wreaked by ‘El Nino’ and ‘La Nina’

Jutta Wolf 08/07/2016

The UN agencies' efforts to help more than 60...

Madagascar's President Hery Rajaonarimampianina delivers a speech for the opening day of the World Climate Change Conference 2015 (COP21) at Le Bourget, near Paris, France, November 30, 2015. Credit: Reuters/Stephane Mahe

Limited Access to Water Curtails Madagascar’s Climate-Smart Agriculture

Katie Nguyen 02/06/2016

The worst El Nino weather pattern in years has...