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In Sikkim it’s not glaciers but springs that ensure water and food security in changing climate. Why Asri Hikakka may go back to studying by the kerosene lamp. 2015 All rights of the content reserved to Manipadma Jena.

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Empanelled with UK Government Department for International Development(DFID) – India, New Delhi as Communications Specialist from July 2007 till present. Developing qualitative case studies on India government’s flagship education programme Sarva Shiksha Abhiyan (Education for All) in West Bengal and Odisha UK Government Department for International Development – India, New Delhi. Impact evaluation of the Disaster Risk Management (DRM) programme in Gujarat UN Development Programme (UNDP), New Delhi.

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Indian cyclone exposes need for safer housing. India’s first solar home complex has admirers but few imitators. Deserts Can Save Forests. Local financial lapses beset solar scheme for energy-poor Indians. Indian villagers reap rewards of restoring common land. Traditional Farming Holds All the Aces. India Strives to Become ‘Drought Proof’. Tribal Farmers Fall Back on Ancient Wisdom. INDIA: Climate Change Fuels Rural Out-Migration, Rising Farm Debt. INDIA: ‘Seed-Mothers’ Confront Climate Insecurity.

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MANIPADMA JENA is a senior international environmental journalist in India. Winner of the Best Media Reporting Award in 2012 from the Asia-Pacific Climate Change Adaption Forum in Bangkok, she writes for the London-based Thomson Reuters Foundation and for Rome based IPS – Inter Press Service News Agency, the 5th largest global news agency. In New Delhi and preparatory Fourth SACOSAN workshops in Sri Lanka, 2009. She is currently researching and writing on renewable energy in India on a fellowship from.

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Indian villagers reap rewards of restoring common land

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Indian villagers reap rewards of restoring common land. Heading to the farmers’ fair on the outskirts of Angul, an industrial town in India’s eastern state of Odisha, there’s not a cow to be seen along the roadside. The 52-year-old headman of the local Juang tribe, Bhagban Pradhan, explains that it’s the season when communities feed their livestock in sheds to give their collectively managed grazing land and forest time to regenerate. The FES works with 1.7 million rural people to manage the commons ...

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Deserts Can Save Forests

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Deserts Can Save Forests. It may take development of the deserts to save forests, say experts, who stress that desert ecology needs to be preserved and enhanced. When the time comes that we have to let our forests survive to retain their ecosystem services, eyes would turn for food security and livelihoods to the huge land spaces the deserts, Israeli ecologist Uriel N. Safriel told IPS at the Fourth International Desert Forum held in Kubuqi in China. Affected regions are using new and more efficient tech...

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Local financial lapses beset solar scheme for energy-poor Indians

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Local financial lapses beset solar scheme for energy-poor Indians. A tribal song plays quietly on a cell phone plugged into an inverter drawing power from a solar battery on a mud platform under the thatch of Champa Lohar’s hut in Kotpit village. In this cluster of forest villages in the Rairangpur block of India’s eastern Odisha state, most adults have cell phones, despite there being no service network and no grid power supply to charge the handsets. In 2010, 45-year-old Lohar and her family of six rec...

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Traditional Farming Holds All the Aces

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Traditional Farming Holds All the Aces. KORAPUT, India, Feb 1 2013 (IPS) – Last monsoon season, 65-year-old Sunadhar Ramaparia, a member of the Bhumia tribe in the eastern Indian state of Odisha, mixed indigenous crops like ‘para’ paddy, foxtail millet and oil seeds in his upland plot. The rains came, then played truant for 23 days and in the scorching heat even lowland farmers’ hybrid paddy saplings burnt to dust. But Ramaparia harvested a full crop. Though the government of India has offered the tribe ...

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India’s first solar home complex has admirers but few imitators

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India’s first solar home complex has admirers but few imitators. From afar you can spot the domes reflecting the rays of the afternoon sun. But in a country known for the splendours of its ancient buildings, this sight is something rather more contemporary: roof-integrated photovoltaic panels that convert the sunlight into electricity, supplying Rabi Rashmi Abasan, India’s first solar residential complex, with a good part of its power needs. Gonchaudhuri persuaded the government’s West Bengal Renewable E...