Slow things down at Earth House - An intimate farmstay built in rammed earth near Jaipur that brings together farming practices, creative experiences & rejuvenating stays.

Oh that's wonderful. We were quite inspired by Chitra Vishwanth's projects as well, and in fact did consider reaching out to the team - very few people and learned executioners in this space in the north. But then we found the wonderful folks at...

https://www.bbc.com/reel/video/p0gfyls0/are-we-at-the-brink-of-a-bug-pocalypse-

"After water, concrete is the most widely used substance on Earth. If the cement industry were a country, it would be the third largest carbon dioxide emitter in the world with up to 2.8bn tonnes, surpassed only by China and the US." https://www.theguardian.com/cities/2019/feb/25/concrete-the-most-destructive-material-on-earth

"Although climate benefits are the most challenging thing to measure, we have a lot of research showing that over time, as countries reduce hours of work, their carbon emissions fall," she says. A 10% reduction in hours is associated to an 8.6% fall...

Video from Foundation of Agrarian Studies (FAS). The speakers for this include Madhura Swaminathan, Professor of Economics at ISI (Bangalore) and Jagmati Sangwan, AIDWA Vice-President. This discussion by FAS aims to expand the understanding of women’s work and role in agriculture, and the issues specific to them. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SLwFuaizTlM

"DMH-11 exemplifies a hope for re-appropriation of the definition of scientific research as a public good. Ironically, this development comes in the context of a larger thrust for liberalizing and privatizing agriculture, made apparent by the, now...

"Still, while coriander might be thoroughly enmeshed with Indian cooking, it's often uncelebrated in the kitchen – its sheer affordability, accessibility and ubiquity leading it to be taken for granted." "While the use of coriander dates back...

"For millennia, ghee has been a venerated staple of the subcontinental diet, but it fell out of favour a few decades ago when saturated fats were largely considered to be unhealthy. But more recently, as the thinking around saturated fats is...

It's something permaculture experts have been talking about for ages. It's also something our ancestors perhaps observed and learnt as they began to practice agriculture. And it's still something that modern agriculture told us we may not practice,...

"The number of undernourished people fell from 811 million in 2005 to 607 million in 2014. But in 2015, the trend began to turn. Hunger has been rising ever since: to 650 million in 2019, and back to 811 million in 2020. This year is likely to be much worse." https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2022/may/19/banks-collapsed-in-2008-food-system-same-producers-regulators