Reports and Documents

Higher temperatures and unpredictable weather events are disrupting life-sustaining agriculture in many parts of the world, derailing efforts to reduce hunger and poverty in the world’s poorest regions.

This publication is an attempt to share the initial outcomes of Technology Demonstration Component being implemented by selected KVKs. In this, significant lessons learnt and initial impact of the interventions on helping the farmers to cope with climate variabilities are presented.

The overall emissions generated from the city of Pune in the year 2010-11 were 4,661,064.20 tonnes of CO2e. This translates to about 1.46 tonnes of CO2e per capita in the same year reveals this first-ever carbon footprint report for the city.

This paper deals with the interface between science and economics in environmental policy making in India. It explains Nehru‘s concept of scientific temper and its influence in the formulation of science and technology policy and development of the science and technology system.

The growing global demand for medicinal and aromatic plants could help drive Nepal's green economy, while improving livelihoods in its poorest communities, according to a new study released by the UNEP in collaboration with the Government of Nepal.

Focusing trans-boundary water regime of Ganges- Brahmaputra- Meghna (GBM) basin, this situation analysis paper discusses the core issues related to environmental security through analyzing various environmental impacts and its significance at the national and regional level.

Public-Private-Partnerships (PPP) is a method of working in which the public and private sectors cooperate and partner with each other to create infrastructure and/ or provide services to users. All PPP projects have multiple stakeholders such as the ULBs, citizens, private sector, and state and central governments.

This document reports on a workshop addressing the problems and impacts of floods and aiming to provide more understandable and action-oriented information to policymakers in the South Asian Association for Regional Cooperation (SAARC) region (Pakistan, India, Afghanistan, Bangladesh, Nepal, Bhutan and Sri Lanka), in order to develop a regional

“Climate change and disaster resilient water, sanitation and hygiene practices” is written to help governmental and non-governmental agencies involved in safe water, sanitation hygiene at local level, union and ward disaster management

Transit Oriented Development is essentially any development, macro or micro, that is focused around a transit node, and facilitates complete ease of access to the transit facility, thereby inducing people to prefer to walk and use public transportation over personal modes of transport.