NITI Aayog has warned by 2030, 21 major cities—including Delhi, Bengaluru and Chennai—are at risk of running out of groundwater, creating a "Day Zero". Day Zero" refers to the critical moment a city or region runs out of potable water, forcing the shutdown of taps and implementation of emergency rationing. India is facing its worst water crisis, with 600 million people already experiencing high-to-extreme water stress. E20 fuel (a mix of 20% ethanol, 80% petrol) is being pro

Big Tech firms including Amazon, Microsoft, Google, and Alibaba are joining forces with agribusiness giants to reshape agriculture through AI, precision farming, and digital platforms. But far from empowering farmers or tackling climate change, this rapid digital expansion risks increasing farmer debt and accelerating farm loss, deepening ecological harm, and concentrating corporate control over food production. IPES-Food is a global think tank that guides actions for sustain

When we picture a farmer in India, the image is almost always of a man standing tall in a field, sickle in hand, tilling the soil. But the reality shows a different picture. According to the National Sample Survey data , 80% of economically active women in India are employed in agriculture sector. Yet their role in agriculture largely remains invisible and policies rarely take them into account. These women work on their family land, as daily wage labourers, and in looking a

On May 4th, 2025, the Government of India announced the release of two new rice varieties : Kamala and Pusa DST Rice 1. These were not bred by conventional methods but were developed using gene-editing, a powerful technology that alters the DNA of living things in a lab What is Gene Editing? Why Should You Worry? Gene editing is a set of laboratory techniques that allow scientists to make supposedly 'minor’ changes to the DNA of a plant or animal. One popular tool is called C

Food is meant to nourish our bodies, but for many, it has become a source of concern. A recent study revealed that over 50% of food...