Agriculture & Rural Development

Bollywood star Salman Khan has joined hands with the Government of Maharashtra and Elan Foundation (philanthropic arm of commercial realty developer Elan Group) to rebuild homes destroyed by the floods in Kolhapur, Maharashtra. The 2019 floods affected 223 villages in Kolhapur and displaced around 28,897 people in the district. In February 2020, Elan Group announced...

Water security is the adaptive capacity to safeguard the sustainable availability of, access to, and safe use of water for health, livelihoods, ecosystems, and productive economies. In light of the prevailing COVID-19 pandemic, the importance of water for overall human development is even more relevant. Recognizing the need to build a timely discourse and action...

Farming is not an easy vocation. Apart from backbreaking work, it involves a lot of life-threatening risks. Even after those risks, the results are never certain, for the yield of agriculture heavily relies upon the weather and environmental conditions, which can never be predicted. For example, recently excessive rainfall in the Kutch region of...

Rise Against Hunger India (RAHI) stepped in during the lockdown and supported migrants with nutritious fortified food over the past 5 months. However, the root cause of livelihood insecurity in their native places which pushed these vulnerable groups to undertake migration to other cities still remained unaddressed. Even the small and marginal farmers often...

Looking back at 100 days since Cyclone Amphan made landfall in West Bengal, SEEDS (Sustainable Environment and Ecological Development Society) a leading humanitarian organization welcomes Panchami Purkayi to her newly built house in the 24 South Parganas district. She along with her husband and son (both with disabilities) took refuge in a nearby primary...

India's single largest iron ore producer is public sector undertaking NMDC Limited. Short for National Mineral Development Corporation, it has an incontestably large presence in the states of Karnataka and Chhattisgarh. Apart from mining iron ore, the PSU also mines diamonds, minerals and magnesite. It has been around for more than 60 years, with...

Across Cargill’s locations in 70 countries, the company and its employees are committed to positively impacting the communities where they live and work. This year, with a pandemic and natural disasters globally, Cargill intensified its focus on boosting economies, improving livelihoods and making a difference to individuals, families, farmers and small businesses around the...

Cognizant and Grundfos have announced CSR funding for the restoration of the Sembakkam Lake in Chennai. Cognizant will contribute more than INR 2.7 crores and Grundfos will contribute INR 1.7 crores and up to INR 7.5 lakhs in kind for civil works, wastewater treatment, and landscaping to rejuvenate the 100-acre lake that flows into the...

The soul of India lives in its villages. Corporate social responsibility is actively engaged in giving wings to this soul by funding rural development in a structured manner. CSR in rural development Numerous long-running CSR programmes, from HDFC Bank's Holistic Rural Development Programme to ITC's Mission Sunehra Kal are making progress in sustainable rural development. These companies...

Netafim India has commenced Netafim Krishi Samvaad, Netafim Ki Paathshala and Netafim Tip Of The Day to leverage digital revolution and use low-cost digital tools to engage with farmers through various platforms and formats. Digital information-sharing tools such as audio, text and video messaging have been proven highly effective in disseminating critical information to...

Hunger and Malnutrition are rising across the globe with increasing population and declining resources. According to a study jointly conducted by Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) of the UN, UNICEF, UN World Food Programme, International Fund for Agriculture and the World Health Organization, almost 690 million people went hungry in 2019 – up by...

Deutsche Bank and Swades Foundation today announced a CSR initiative by which 40,000 fruit-bearing trees will be planted in the Raigad district of Maharashtra, impacting the lives of over 4,000 people living there. The initiative marks 40 years since Deutsche Bank opened its first branch in India (in Mumbai) and also four years of a...