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Tags: Bihar, climate change, failure of government program, natural resources | Category: Community development, Farmers, Social Problem, climate change
Can India compensate Bihar for its lower energy consumption? India is arguing in climate change dialogue that wealthy nation should compensate poor for its lower energy consumption. Thanks to Bihar and other poor states that India can claim to have lower energy consumption rate and putting strong argument against cliamte Continue reading Can India compensate Bihar for its lower energy consumption? Print This Post
Tags: Bihar, Brazil, Farmers, favelas, natural resources, rural poverty, sustainable agriculture | Category: Agriculture, Community development, Farmers, General, Social Problem
Land distribution in Brazil Today, 47 percent of Brazil’s land is owned by just 1 percent of the population, making the country’s land distribution the second most unequal in the world and a glaring inequality in a nation known for its stark division between rich and poor. As a result, a class of four and a Continue reading Brazil and Bihar – different context but same story Print This Post
Tags: Farmers, green revolution, natural resources, sustainable agriculture | Category: Agriculture, Farmers, environment
…The Green Revolution contributed significatnly in technology transfer from developed world to poor countries. These technologies included improved crop varieties, irrigation methods and management, chemical fertilizers (mainly nitrogen and phosphate), chemical pesticides, management practices etc. Print This Post
Tags: Farmers, natural resources | Category: Agriculture, Community development, Farmers, General, Social System model, environment
Blaming poor villagers for our cities problems seems a strange logic but this is very true at least in India. When I was talking to some researchers in urban planning at university of Sheffield, they found it very interesting complex system research in social science. Continue reading Underdeveloped Agriculture – cause of the most of cities’ problem Print This Post
Tags: Agriculture, climate change, Farmers, grounwater, natural resources | Category: Agriculture, Farmers, environment
India’s annual monsoon rainfall has been 27% lower than the 50-year average in the June 1-Aug 17 period. In Bihar annual rainfall this year is 43% lower than the average of last 50 years(some media is quoting more than 50% shortfall). There was a shortfall of 57.7 per cent in paddy crop coverage and 27.4 Continue reading Effect of draught… Print This Post
Tags: climate change, depleting groundwater, grounwater, natural resources | Category: Agriculture, Farmers, environment
Groundwater Change in India (2002-08) In a recent press release from University of California -Irvin, reported the evidence of depleting groundwater resource in Northern India. Using satellite data, UC Irvine and NASA hydrologists have found that groundwater beneath northern India has been receding by as much as 1 foot per year over the past Continue reading Depleting groundwater resource of Northern India |
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