Back to their roots: Dongrias of Niyamgiri are reviving indigenous seeds to cope with climate change

The Adivasi community had over the years gravitated toward rice monoculture, losing numerous landrace strains in the process.

Sonali Prasad

· Dec 24, 2018 · 09:30 pm

A bank for seeds: In Telangana, a safehouse secures the future of agriculture

The genebank hosts 126,830 accessions (samples of a particular plant/crop population stored as seeds) collected from 144 countries.

Sahana Ghosh

· Oct 11, 2018 · 01:30 pm

From US to India, producers are developing 'open source' seeds to combat patents

Around the world, plant breeders are resisting what they see as corporate control of the food supply by making seeds available for other breeders to use.

Rachel Cernansky

· Dec 15, 2016 · 09:30 pm

A brief encounter with Taliban leader Mullah Omar, as divisive in death as in life

A longtime South Asia expert recalls a trip to Afghanistan in 1995.

Ishtiaq Ahmad

· Aug 06, 2015 · 03:30 pm