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A sustained policy push for organic agriculture is key to fighting land degradation in the Hindu Kush Himalaya (HKH) region, …
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The Costs Of Heightened Conflict In The Himalayas
![A Kashmiri man near a Budgam forest shows the degradation caused to forests over the past few decades [image by: Athar Parvaiz]](https://i1.wp.com/www.impactnews.in/wp-content/uploads/2019/09/degration-e1568189463606.jpg?resize=310%2C165&ssl=1)
It has been a month since India cut off communications and implemented a security lockdown in the part of Kashmir …
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As Global Hunger Grows, Easy Solutions Disappear
![The vast majority of the hungry are still in Asia [image from: SOFI 2019 report]](https://i0.wp.com/www.impactnews.in/wp-content/uploads/2019/07/World-of-undernourishment-e1563868668355.jpg?resize=310%2C165&ssl=1)
Last week, alongside the High-level Political Forum (HLPF) which monitors the progress on the global Sustainable Development Goals, UN agencies …
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India Is Leaving Its Poor Farmers Behind
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Anurag Verma is a rich and curious farmer. His gently waving fields of wheat are ready to ripen, but he …
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Protests Bring CPEC’s Kashmir Dam To A Halt
![Fears of river diversion have led to protests against a Chinese funded hydropower project in Kashmir [image by: Ghulam Rasool]](https://i2.wp.com/www.impactnews.in/wp-content/uploads/2019/03/Neelum1-Ghulam-Rasool-e1552119075983.jpg?resize=310%2C165&ssl=1)
The site of the 1,110 MW Kohala hydropower project in Kashmir lies forlorn and quiet without the usual humdrum noise …
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Climate Change Is Turning China Into Wine Country
![Chinese farmers pick grapes in a vineyard in Changli county, Hebei province [image by: Lou Linwei / Alamy Stock Photo]](https://i0.wp.com/www.impactnews.in/wp-content/uploads/2019/01/china-wine-e1548053153314.jpg?resize=310%2C165&ssl=1)
Mention climate change and some will think of Pacific island states disappearing under glacial meltwater. Or global apocalypse like that …
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Drought And War Bring Afghanistan To Crisis
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It has been two years since severe drought forced twenty nine-year old Amena and her four children to leave their …
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Reflections on the Bahujans in Chhattisgarh, Madhya Pradesh and Rajasthan
An artist is giving a final touch to Babasaheb Ambedkar’s statue. Picture: Social Media As assembly elections are underway in …
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Saline Land Will Drive People Out Of Sundarbans
![As tidal river Durgaduani tears into their earthen embankments with every high tide, islanders living deep inside the Indian Sundarbans desperately try to save farms and homes [image by: Manipadma Jena]](https://i1.wp.com/www.impactnews.in/wp-content/uploads/2018/11/ICD-2-123187-e1542095453685.jpg?resize=310%2C165&ssl=1)
Increased soil salinity due to climate change-induced rises in sea levels is likely to force hundreds of thousands of coastal …
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Thriving Sanitation Economy in India
Source: Ministry of Drinking Water and Sanitation As the Swachh Bharat Mission completed its fourth year, the government, corporate, international …
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