Groups of women in Zambia started providing energy services like battery charging, irrigation, milling and welding, to the community by using a replacing diesel with jatropha oil that they produce themselves.

Success story of a young panchayat president who took innovative measures to re-build her tsunami-devastated village.

In order to address some issues faced by small farm holders, Agrarian Development Institute for Sustenance and Improved Livelihood (ADISIL), a Madurai based NGO, with the support of Svaraj, has revived an innovative, traditional technology, i.e. raised bed farming. Raised bed farming is the practice of using complex terraces of elevated earth to grow vegetables, it is done simply by forming a bed of topsoil that lies about 6 inches to 10 inches above the rest of the ground. Generally this bed is 3 feet wide and 8 feet to 10 feet in length.

The objective of the study was to assess indicators of TB-related stigma and socio-cultural and gender-related features of illness associated with stigma.

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Khana, a woman seer and a composer of nature verses lived between 800 and 1200 AD. Her contribution to traditional agriculture of Bengal, India is amazing. Her verses were the most important guidelines for traditional agriculture and in villages, farmers are still following several verses along with present-day modern agricultural practices.