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A review of climate smart agriculture (CSA) published a while ago at RAS. CSA framework has vague indicators, doesn't address climate variability and ignores economic differences. If KFC and a 1 acre farmer are both branded climate smart, it's smart going for just one of them!

As former students of Azim Premji University, we,the Alumni of SAS, condemn the targeted online attack and fake allegations on Prof. Asim Siddiqui and urge everybody to not engage with this hate campaign on a person who has practiced nothing but empathy & kindness. In Solidarity,

This is Garo Hills in Meghalaya where floods have taken lives and livelihoods. Does India or it's media care about the Northeast and its annual sorrow? No, all obsessed with Delhi's politics, shrill, hate politics and other trivia

Money don't jiggle jiggle (Keynes, 1936)

A wild, appalling story: A group of hackers fabricated evidence on the PCs of Indian human rights activists who were then arrested for terrorism and jailed. Now researchers have found a direct link between those hackers and the police making the arrests. wired.com/story/modified…

Why it happened... foreignpolicy.com/2022/03/05/sri…

1970s :: Advertisement In India Highlighting "Abortion Is Legal Abortion Is Safe "

children being eaten by bears as punishment for mocking a bald man, germany, 15th century

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If you study these 13 maps for just a couple of minutes each, you'll understand history much better. Starting with... the migrations of prehistoric humanity.

Good thread on Sri Lanka, IMF neoliberal conditionality, and what R Ramakumar calls the “green imperialists” and purveyors of organic ag pseudoscience such as the garlanded Vandana Shiva.

Democracy must ensure that people can 'see' the State transparently & not the other way around. In today's The Hindu I argue how some recent moves by the govt are likely to dehumanise, increase indignity & exacerbate the power asymmetry between rights holders and govt.

I haven't gotten any sleep and been up all night, yet I cannot get over these pictures. They're the most heartbreaking yet beautiful images of male friendship, intimacy, vulnerability, and bonding that I've seen in sports. What has made #Fedal so special? 🧵

sprf.in/photo-archive/… From a recent collaboration with @SprfIndia. This short #photoessay explores the multitude of issues faced by the small scale fishers in the Indian #Sundarbans or the #SundarbanBiosphereReserve (SBR) currently.

Continuing with my work in SBR to understand the livelihood impacts of small-scale fishworkers arising out of restrictions to access fishing grounds.

Changing Coastlines This #documentary is now finished after three months of labour. It largely focuses on how small-scale fishers in #WestBengal's East Midnapore are affected by #climatechange and #development initiatives. #Watch and share your feedback: youtu.be/1b6Lh6IV9Uc

Hi! I spent the last 13 months writing stories across India's west coast - from port development and fish famine to chemical pollution to water scarcity to diversion - with the underlying theme of prioritization of corporate interests over communities and water ecosystems.#THREAD

🚨Last month, African Group of Negotiators Experts Support (AGNES) held a meet where they raised concerns about inequities in #IPCC Integrated Assessment Modelling. Other Global South scientists & experts have also pointed out issues. For African Arguments africanarguments.org/2024/04/modell…

OnlineFirst - "Local institutional strategies and responses to climate change risks in the Indian Sundarbans: A political economic analysis" by Amitrajit Chakraborty, Amrita Sen, and Debarchana Biswas: #climatechange #impact #adaptation journals.sagepub.com/doi/abs/10.117…