People's Archive of Rural India Sundarbans: Not a blade of grass grew People in the Sundarbans of West Bengal, are facing climate change – recurring cyclones, erratic rain, growing salinity, rising heat, depleting mangroves and more.
People's Archive of Rural India ‘Maach (fishing) and chaash (cultivation) brought us to Sundarbans’ Flood, famine, Partition, riots, and the promise of land and jobs drove early migrations to the Sundarbans. The settlers then battled disease, hunger and attacks by tigers, but eventually found a home
Caravan Magazine Trade-Offs India’s farmers have long opposed pressure from the WTO for the country to abandon its agricultural subsidies. Agriculture was brought under the purview of the global trading system with the Uruguay round of the GATT, which closed in 1994.
