The Fifth Edition of Beejpatra explores the symbiotic association between ‘waste’ and urban agriculture. Under capitalist urbanisation, waste is overproduction and a ‘non-value’ that can neither be consumed nor be invested back into the process of production. The production process itself is a linear rather...
Tag: Pune
Report on ‘Sinking Cities’
The uncontrolled and destructive urbanisation has badly impacted the health of all rivers. Large scale damming, the concretisation of river channels, real estate development on the flood plains and dumping of wastewater have altered the very nature of the rivers and has endangered their mere...
Food forest initiative in Pune
– 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...
How an engineer found her calling in farming
– 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,...