Agriculture remains one of the major contributors to economic growth in India. The smallholder farmers in India face the challenges and opportunities of a rapidly changing market environment brought about by trade liberalization and globalization. Rising incomes, population growth, urbanization, change in tastes and preferences are driving growth in demand for high quality and safe food. The capacity of smallholder producers in India to respond to

Caritas India organised “Training on Child Protection in Humanitarian Actions” through Webinar on 26th June 2020. Resource Persons from Caritas Internationalis, Caritas Germany & Save the Children India. This training aimed to achieve capacity building on child protection standards, learning from grounds, sharing of experiences, safeguarding and strengthening mechanism for child protection. He welcomed all the participants and the speakers

Already struggling from Corona, thousands of people in West Bengal are displaced due to Cyclone Amphan. Though the cyclone moved to Bangladesh it has left the trail of its destruction behind. People could not save anything but their lives. They lost everything which they had secured through years of labour. Cyclone Amphan has caused great damage in both rural and urban areas of West Bengal and Odisha. Reports say 82 lives were lost, 80 in West Bengal

The Constitution (Scheduled Castes) Order, 1950 lists 1,108 castes across 29 states in its First Schedule. Dalits form around 16.6% of India’s population. As per the 2011 census, four States namely Uttar Pradesh (20.5%), West Bengal (10.7%), Bihar (8.2%) and Tamil Nadu (7.2%) account for nearly half of the Country’s Dalit population. Though there is an increase in the population of Dalits in the country, many states with a considerable number

COVID 19 pressed the panic button among the communities of Jongksha village in East Khasi Hills of Meghalaya until things slowly started improving. Meghalaya counts itself among those rare states in the country that has less than 100 COVID 19 positive cases and this has been truly encouraging. People of Jongksha now are trying to come to terms with life and are trying to return to their farms for cultivation. “We are now looking at motivating the

Last few months we have seen hundreds of migrants walking back to their homes to reach the villages as the livelihood options in the cities were closed due to COVID19 lockdown. Most of them left but some have nowhere to go but wait and struggle for their lives. Rashmi Vishwakarma, 33, from Mhasala village in Nagpur district shares the same fate as many others stranded in this pandemic. Staying in a nuclear family with her husband and the family was

The world has seen catastrophes in the past, but the one we are dealing with currently has consistently damaging across nations. It has made us rethink whether borders, language, fences, class, race and other forms of differentiators mean anything at all. The country continues its struggle with the Coronavirus pandemic, as the numbers of positives detected continue to rise with increased testing in the country. Scientists, pharmacists and medical

After every disaster, people want to help each other and there are a lot of people who wants to volunteer in the humanitarian crisis with their skill, expertise and passion. This was the reason that Tiruvalla Social Service Society, Bodhana, the official social work wing of Tiruvalla diocese has organized a one-day Disaster preparedness training programme for volunteers as part of preparedness for 2020 southwest monsoon in association with District