Moment 1: Learning about the Green Revolution in a small village I spent May-December 1965 in Kavathe village, Maharashtra. 15 per cent of cropland was irrigated, mostly by dug wells. The area is semi-arid, but the main crops, millet and sorghum, were little affected by that year’s drought....
8 May 2019
IDS Bulletin 37.4
The very rich, disturbed by noise and fumes from the badly maintained cars of poor people in their own country, have been campaigning with increasing success to preserve an environment that has little to do with rendering tolerable, for the workers who live there, such real black spots as Gary,...
1 October 2006
1 January 1992
Through our research, policy engagement, teaching and training, the Rural Futures cluster supports the emergence of development pathways that deliver both greater social justice and sustainability for rural people and places, while recognising their important interconnections with urban areas...
