A Pune teacher develops a calculator made out of cardboard for as little as Rs 15, which can even handle mindbending logarithms.

SIXTOK ROXAS, an economist with an abiding in the optimal role of communities in the management of resources, is chariperson of the Foundation for Community Organization and Management Technology a

The only way to prevent traditional water tanks from self-destruction is to hand over their maintenance to the people

Madras is a chronically water-starved metropolis, and it provides invaluable insights into how integrated water management could be the last life-saver

In Down To Earth's first Country Report, ANIL AGARWAL and SUNITA NARAIN look at Papua New Guinea, its short but volatile transition to the market economy, its unique land tenure system and the mining and forestry sectors.

The training of women in the maintenance of hand pumps has not only flooded them with confidence, it has rescued a government water supply programme from sinking.

Papua New Guinea has come a long way from a society that began cultivating crops in 8000 BC and had no need for a market economy. It came in touch with the outside world just about 100 years ago. Today, it exports minerals and imports food. The people com

Middle aged Munni, a Tharu tribal of Panchpera village in the Lakhimpur Kheri district of Uttar Pradesh, was one of the area's first women to be trained as a handpump mechanic in 1990. Considered the best in the area, she is responsible for 41 pumps, thre

If anything can help Papua New Guineans find the "unique way" enshrined in their Constitution, it is their traditional land ownership system.

A look at how community land is used as a bargaining tool for development projects and even for peace and quiet.