Hounslow, London, 2003
Dark, petite, plait-headed Salima sighed heavily and began chopping the vegetables for dinner, squatting in front of the TV in the Shahs' mouldy bedsit. Ali would
As I exit most mornings off Interstate 84 into Hartford, Connecticut, I pass a corner where about 30 Southasians gather to catch the bus. Most of them wear backpacks, and
Common property resource (CPR) management has long been a significant arrangement in many parts of rural Southasia, playing an important economic and environmental role at the grassroots. The importance of
Life is so much better in the village; what are we doing sitting around here?
Between Gandhi’s self-sufficient, harmonious idyll and Ambedkar’s den or ignorance and narrow-mindedness lies the village of reality.
India’s government is going the ‘agritech’ route while low-input organic farming is better suited to smallholder farming households.
In India over the past decade, farmer suicides are linked to an agrarian crisis brought about by market reforms gone wrong.
China has more species of plants than any other country except Brazil or Columbia. Its faunal diversity is remarkable as well; it has more than 2000 species of terrestrial vertebrates,
Even as Sri Lanka’s smallholder agriculture dies a slow death, schemes to save the rural economy are only coming from urban intellectuals.
Far from being a panacea for fighting rural poverty, microcredit can impose additional burdens on the rural poor.
