Urban farming is taking place in one form or another in different countries, arising out of variegated needs under diverse contexts. In India, especially in Delhi, urban and peri-urban farming is responsible for fulfilling a significant part of the city’s food needs and acts as...
New Delhi, April 1, 2021 To Hon’ble Lt. Governor of Delhi Re: Requesting recognition and inclusion of farming in Master Plan of Delhi 2041 In the context of the ongoing process of preparing the Master Plan of Delhi-2041, we would like to share with you...
PRC is looking for volunteers for the upcoming second edition of Farming The City-2021, the annual convention on urban farming being organized in collaboration with the Institute for Democracy and Sustainability and TRIPP, IIT Delhi. It is a great opportunity for anyone who is interested...
Deadline extended to March 31, 2021. People’s Resource Centre, in collaboration with Institute for Democracy and Sustainability (IDS) and with technical support from Transportation Research and Injury Prevention Programme (TRIPP) IIT Delhi, invites you to participate in the second edition of our annual convention on...
– Rosamma Thomas [This article originally appeared in countercurrents.org. Link to the article] Vivek Gour Broome looks the personification of that nursery rhyme, “Old McDonald had a farm…” His farm west of Pune, beyond Hinjewadi in the village of Marunji, is an island of biodiversity...
We are happy to present the second leaflet of our ‘urban farming’ periodical- BeejPatra. BeejPatra provides a space for the urban farming community to present, talk about and propagate different ways in which citizens can make cities beautiful, socially just, more self-reliant, and free. Please...
People’s Resource Centre invites you to an online dialogue on the theme “Sinking Cities: River, City and Politics of water” to discuss how cities can become more responsible towards the rivers. Cities across India are threatened by an extreme water crisis. In recent years, cities...
– Rosamma Thomas [This article was originally published in Countercurrents.org. Link to the original article] Afrin Kale is a farmer with a degree in civil engineering. A resident of Pune city, her five-acre farm is in Pimpalgaon Ghode village of Ambegaon Tehsil of Pune district,...
[This article written by Akshita Rawat was originally published in The Wire. For readability purposes, the text is being reproduced here.] Developmental priorities have played a direct role in the deterioration of the Yamuna and have made it consistently difficult for the fisherpeople to co-exist...
Abstract The process of urbanization is central to the viciously exclusionary and unsustainable trajectory of the dominant developmental model. Urban development guided by linear thinking and extraction-oriented urban planning is pushing for expansion of cities outwards, upwards and downwards, and thus creating newer conflicts over...