Ramesh Chander Dagar, an organic farmer from Akbarpur Barota village, Sonipat, Haryana demonstrates how

Tamil Nadu reels under a third successive year of drought, and the rural economy is fast drying up as a sixth straight crop failure stares farmers in the face.

A failed monsoon brings distress to Kerala; its second longest river, the Bharathapuzha, is virtually dry, and Palakkad district faces the worst drought in its history.

ZOE YOUNG travels through Poland to find that its farmers dread integration with the EU

Demanding Accountability: Civil Society Claims and the World Bank Inspection Panel Edited by Dana Clark, Jonathan Fox and Kay Treakle Rainbow Publishers, 2003

A pig for Neo and a bull for Morpheus that s The Meatrix, a Flash animation based on the blockbuster sci fi movie The Matrix. But that is where the similarity of the plot ends. The Meatrix is about reality, The Matrix is ultimately ameliorative fantasy.

A popular movement is gathering strength in Chhattisgarh against the privatisation of a stretch of the Sheonath river, which has deprived thousands of families of their livelihoods.

Filed by Karnataka farmers?

Admits the World Meteorological Organization