On an article published on 6 Aug 2012 at Livemint (reproduced below), Dr. Sudhirendar Sharma raises a few questions. He says, “whether or not the trend co-relates to climate change, it is clear that there has virtually been an absence of a well thought-out strategy to overcome it. Job opportunities and local markets haven’t been

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Times of India: On a regular day, Brikesh Singh cycles from his home in Byappanahalli to work in Richmond Town. On a not-so regular day, he climbs trees, 260-foot-high smokestacks and even the roof of the British Parliament in his attempt to ‘Change politics and save the climate’, along with like-minded Greenpeace activists who aim

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IPS News: Farmers in this fertile central district of south Nepal are convinced that an intense drought between May and early July that destroyed their maize crops is the result of climate change.  “Last year my farms produced over 20 quintals of maize, but this time I could barely harvest one quintal,” 60-year-old farmer Padmakanta

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RECOFTC: Hemant Ojha reflects on his new book Adaptive Collaborative Approaches in Natural Resource Governance: Rethinking Participation, Learning and Innovation, Edited by Hemant R Ojha, Andy Hall, and Rasheed Sulaiman V. Why this book? Are stakeholders in natural resource management sufficiently adaptive and collaborative in addressing the issues of equity, sustainability and productivity? This book

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GR Journals: This study examines perceive climate change impacts and adaptation strategies to sustain livestock production adopted by livestock. Majority of the respondents perceived that climate change has negative impact on productive and reproductive performance of livestock, increased incidence of livestock diseases and parasitic infestation, decreasing trend of feed and fodder resources, water. Majority of

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