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    A green field with houses and mountains in the background_tourism
    November 5, 2024
    Why a Balti village in Ladakh supports the sixth schedule demand
    by Ghulam Mehdi Shah | 2 min read
    Houses in a row_spiti architecture
    March 12, 2024
    Photo essay: Spiti’s changing architecture
    A woodcrafter describes how a cash crop, a burgeoning tourism business, and urban aspirations changed community life and housing design in Spiti.
    by Angdui Phuntsok, HimKatha | 4 min read
    A farmer in a field_kinnow cultivation
    February 2, 2024
    The unabated paddy monoculture of Punjab
    Market fluctuations and a lack of economically viable alternatives is forcing farmers in Punjab to continue cultivating paddy, despite the presence of high-yielding crops such as kinnow.
    by Gurpreet Singh, Nivedita Sharma | 4 min read
    Five-hundred rupee note and coins_handmade sector
    July 14, 2023
    Capital concerns: What India’s handmade sector needs for growth
    Tailored financing solutions can catalyse India’s creative manufacturing and handmade sector. What will it take to make this happen?
    by India Development Review | 6 min read
    WInd turbines in a field_green jobs
    June 30, 2023
    Clean energy to green jobs: Ensuring no one gets left behind
    Harish Hande (SELCO) and Sabina Dewan (JustJobs) discuss the impact of the energy transition on communities and their livelihoods, and explore the role key stakeholders must play in ensuring a just transition.
    by India Development Review | 8 min read
    Two women sitting on the ground, surrounded by weaving baskets_open network for digital commerce
    January 13, 2023
    Indian artisans are still missing from e-commerce platforms
    High logistical costs and a lack of digital know-how are some factors keeping Indian artisans out of e-commerce. How can the recently launched Open Network for Digital Commerce change this?
    by Parul Gupta, Abhishek Modi | 5 min read
    People in a boat during a flood, climate change
    October 26, 2022
    South Asia faces irreversible loss from climate change
    At the upcoming COP27, international climate diplomacy needs to seriously address the issue of loss and damage being faced by developing countries.
    by Shalinee Kumari, The Third Pole | 5 min read
    Farm workers clean the solar panels for better efficiency-renewable energy
    May 13, 2022
    What India needs to do to achieve net-zero status by 2070
    A primer on what the energy transition means for India, and the various steps the government, industry, and citizens must take to make it happen.
    by R R Rashmi | 7 min read
    A man in a coal mine-just transition
    March 4, 2022
    Just transition: Leaving no one behind
    Governments, businesses, and civil society need to look beyond only economic reforms to realise a genuinely just transition from fossil fuels to renewable energy.
    by Anna Biswas | 5 min read
    ground-up-series-img
    August 23, 2021
    Cash, quakes, and development
    by Michael Henry | 2 min read
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