We are seeking contributions for the FOURTH edition of Beejpatra, an urban farming quarterly supported by People’s Resource Centre. The first edition of Beejpatra came out in 2020 and was an attempt to nourish the germinating hope that cities can be made beautiful. It has...
A POOR REPLICA Archana Singh and Rajendra Ravi (An edited version of this article was published in Down To Earth magazine in July 2021) After much delay, the Bihar government is finally pushing ahead with its 20.5- km expressway project, being built along the banks...
A month earlier, we had published our study on urban and periurban agriculture in Mumbai. Continuing with our research and action efforts, we invite you to join us for the upcoming public meeting on agriculture and allied activities in urban and periurban Mumbai. Date and...
– Vaishnavi Rathore [Originally published in The Bastion (Link to the original article)] The Delhi Development Authority’s Master Plan 2041 has been released for public feedback. While the floodplains of the Yamuna river feature generously in the document, their uses are limited to aesthetic and...
We are happy to present the third 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. The...
– Geetanjali Gurlhosur [Originally published in Mongabay India (Link to the original article). Republished by Scroll.in (Link)] As the urban farming discourse in India has been expanding over the past few years, the limelight is often on upwardly-mobile urban citizens who take up farming for...
We are happy to present this report based on the research conducted as part of the Urban Agriculture Fellowship-2021 by Rosamma Thomas. Rosamma conducted this research over a period of roughly two months in Pune. Through extensive community interaction and interviews of practitioners of urban...
– Geetanjali Gurlhosur [Originally published in The Firstpost. Link to the original article] At Mumbai’s Worli coast, 130 motorboats go out to the sea from the Worli bateri (canal) and over 200 smaller boats from two more jetties in the vicinity. The boats belong to...
[पहले दिन के कार्यक्रम को हिंदी में पढ़ने के लिए यहाँ क्लिक करें] Session-1 Directions for New Urbanism The introductory session of Farming the City 21 will be centred around the idea of how modern capitalist cities are the engines of multifaceted crisis which is...
सत्र-1 विषय: नई शहरियत के लिए दिशाएँ फार्मिंग द सिटी-21 का पहला सत्र इस विषय पर केंद्रित होगा कि आधुनिक पूंजीवादी शहर कई प्रकार के संकटों के वाहक हैं और उनका इस स्वरूप को बड़े पैमाने पर हो रही बेदखली और पर्यावरणीय गिरावट के रूप...