Adaptation to climate change is perhaps one of the most issues of daily life, especially for countries like India, where more than 60% of the population depends completely on agriculture sector. Apart from the issue of food security the concern is also the reduction in production of other crops. Already the food crop production in India has been lowered by about 18% due to erratic rainfall caused by changing climate. (more…)

Ecotourism, nature tourism, green tourism, adventure tourism,…….and several other nomenclatures have become popular and widely used by all the stakeholders of tourism industry including tourists.  All of them have been evolved as alternative tourism practices; some out of sheer need felt by the (more…)

Carrying capacity is defined as maximum number of individuals that a given environment can support without any adverse impact on it. Since long, researchers have spent considerable time to understand the implication of the concept of carrying capacity in context of the tourism destinations. The advantages and disadvantages of limiting the numbers of visitors and as a consequence the imposing restrictions on (more…)

Safal Solutions has come out with a new mobile application “SafalKHETI”. SafalKHETI is an innovation out of collaboration between Rural E-Services Project of Sheffield Hallam University-UK, Oxford University-UK, Overseas Development Institute-UK, Engineering Physics Scientific Research Centre-UK and Saral Services, Hyderabad. (more…)

Recently I had an opportunity to visit a few villages in Amravati for a study related to cotton cultivation. One of these villages is “Wadhna”, which is located at a distance of about 40 Km. from Amravati. (more…)