One significant impact of the farmers’ movement that hasn’t received considerable attention is how it redefined the idea of ...

The Meter Climate change can no longer be looked at as a vexatious possibility that will happen sometime in the future. The increasing regularity with which various extreme weather events (such as ...

India’s agricultural sector is the backbone of its economy, employing nearly half the workforce and ensuring food security and rural livelihoods. Yet it faces mounting challenges—from climate change ...

Arvind Subramanian and Devesh Kapur discuss India’s “precocious democracy” and its unusual development path, examining ...

Nearly three-quarters of India’s families depend on rural incomes. The majority of India’s poor (some 770 million people or about 70 percent) are found in rural areas. India’s food security depends on ...

Having grown up in Kolkata, India, author Megha Majumdar said she has seen the impacts of climate change firsthand, and she ...

The fields had been freshly plowed. The furrows ran straight and deep. Yet, thousands of farmers across Andhra Pradesh (AP) and Karnataka waited to get a text message before they sowed the seeds. The ...

R. Douglas Hurt, professor and head of Purdue's Department of History, is the author of "Agriculture and the Confederacy: Policy, Productivity, and Power in the Civil War South." (Purdue University ...