Sunday in New Delhi and all on my own. What to do? Getting around at street level is more than my fragile sensibilities can handle today, but I would like to see a bit of the city. Fortunately, there is the New Delhi Metro. With four lines spreading its arms high above the dust and [...]

This is the third in a series of three guest posts written by staff at the International Water Management Institute (IWMI). IWMI  is a non-profit organization  supported by  the Consultative Group on International Agricultural Research (CGIAR) that targets water and land management challenges faced by poor communities in the developing world to reduce poverty and [...]

Ten years ago, the Chief Minister of Gujarat, India faced a shrinking state economy and a host of seemingly intractable problems. High on that list was a nearly bankrupt electricity board and powerful agricultural lobbies vehemently opposed to any reduction in subsidies on electricity that farmers were demanding to pump irrigation water, most of it [...]

Healthy agriculture and ecosystems ultimately depend on preserving biodiversity at the base of the food chain, where a billion organisms can live in a handful of soil.