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Design – India: NH-37 East West Highway, Kaziranga NP, Assam

27 April 2022
India is host to a rich wildlife with an estimated 2,413 rhinoceros in Kaziranga alone. Faced with increasing loss of wildlife due to habitat loss and fragmentation and roadside accidents, the government of Assam is currently working on a wildlife-friendly development project specifically on…

PHOTO GALLERY: International Financial Institutions Transport Sector Business Opportunities Seminar in South Asia (IFI BOS)

17 March 2021
Photo Gallery: International Financial Institutions Transport Sector BOS (IFI BOS)

Renewable Energy-enabled Community-scale Agriculture: Evidence from Gram Oorja's Work

17 June 2020
The presentation discussed some initial interventions in community-scale solar pumping for agriculture. Preliminary learnings suggested that the approach is suitable for remote communities. Scaling these interventions holds promise and can facilitate further investments at the nexus of energy,…

Estimating Direct, Indirect, and Induced Employment from Highway Construction in India

18 March 2020
Highway construction is a major employment generator across the world. Assessing four highway projects located in two distinct provinces, the paper illustrates a methodology to develop estimates of employment generation from highway construction in emerging economies like India.

Exploring a Dynamic Relationship between Transportation Strategies and Community Liveability: A Case of Kolkata Urban Agglomeration

18 March 2020
The paper assesses the spatial dimensions by considering the evolution of the conurbation in four phases, and by looking at cumulative causation of the sequence of impacts of maritime, road, rail, air and ITeS communication networks on liveability within the Kolkata Urban Agglomeration in India.

Farmer Producer Organizations: Experience in Maharashtra

29 October 2019
[Session Summary] Check out how establishing farmer-producer organizations has helped farmers in Maharashtra, India.

A Country of Famished Farmers

29 October 2019
Cases of farmer’s suicides have been documented in Bangladesh due to persistent losses in crops. Every year, Bangladesh's farmers incur huge losses with their products due to the lack of storage facilities and the government's failure to control the market.

Agrarian Crisis One of the Biggest Challenges for New Govt

29 October 2019
The article gives a glimpse of the challenges and tasks ahead for the new government. More than the money, the long-term challenges need consensus to implement tough but necessary reforms to address the agricultural crisis in India. Sustainability, more than anything else is agriculture’s biggest…

Farm Life: Why Gitanjali Rajamani Quit Everything To Go Back to Farming

28 October 2019
Farmizen, a startup in Kerala, India that allows you to rent farmland outside the city to grow your food in a secure and organic manner. The COO shares her journey. They now have about 1500 subscribers and 24 farms across three cities with around 40 acres under cultivation.

India’s Farming Crisis is a Crisis of the Ecological Commons

28 October 2019
The agro-pastoral crisis has emerged as a significant issue for the 2019 national Lok Sabha elections in India. In the run-up to the elections, political parties have announced a number of measures aimed at farmers, including crop insurance, loan waivers and a minimum basic income.In this…