Features on Vrihi & Basudha

2021

GRAIN Report on Agroecology vs Climate Chaos

2019

Jovita Aranha. ‘1420 Varieties, 25 Years: meet the man rescuing India’s rice diversity from extinction’. The Better India (23 July)

 

2018

Ranjita Biswas. ‘Hardy indigenous rice varieties score, help farmers battle the odds’. Grassroots vol 10, issue 4, p. 2.

GBSNP Varma. Fountain Ink (16-2-2018) 

2017

Philippe Laconte & Jean Remy. ‘Protection de la biodiversité face à la confiscation des multinationales’.  Reflets No. 22, pp. 14-15.

Smitha Menon. Condé Nast Traveller (10 Aug)

2015

Stephen Gliessman. ‘Saving seeds and saving culture’. Agroecology and Sustainable Food Systems vol. 39, pp. 599–600,


2014

GBNSP Varma. ‘Seed savior’. Earth Island Journal (Spring)

Monica Autunno. Il Giorno (17 Oct) [in Italian]

Chitrangada Chowdhury. ‘Debal Deb: The barefoot conservator’. Live Mint (9 Aug)

Kareena N Gianani. ‘Sowing history, one seed at a time’. Mid-Day (4 June)

Nishitha Nair Srivastava. ‘Seeds of change’. Herald Review (20 Apr).

John Vidal. ‘Preserving seeds – the Vrihi way’. The Hindu Signpost (19 Mar)

John Vidal. ‘India’s rice warrior battles to build living seed bank as climate chaos looms’. The Guardian (18 Mar)

 

2013

Dharitri (11 Nov) [in Odiya]

Davayani Bose. ‘Seeds of growth’. Good News Tab vol. 2 (19 Apr), pp. 14-15. 

Sambadmanthan. vol. 4, issue 17 (1 Mar), p. 4.

K.P.P. Nair. ‘A potful of rice for the future’. Fountain Ink (4 Feb)

Anuradha Sharma. ‘Crops of wrath.’ Times of India (10 Jan)

Vivek Umrao. ‘Dr Debal Deb : A Legend of the principle of local self-sustainability on the ground’. The Ground Report India vol. 4 (1 Jan)

2012

K.P.P. Nair. ‘Preserving India’s rich rice biodiversity’. Vijayvaani (31 Dec)

Atula. ‘Saving the rarest of rice‘. India’s Endangered (23 July).

Mini Muringatheri. ‘In search of vanishing traditional rice varieties’. The Hindu (1 July).

Kestur Vasuki. ‘Rice-keeper of the nation rues loss of native seeds’. The Pioneer (9 Apr)

Indulekha Aravind. Business Standard (8 Apr)

‘Traditional varieties of rice pushed under carpet, says Agri expert’. The Deccan Herald (5 Apr)

Matrubhumi (19 April) [in Malayalam]

Samaja (7 Mar) [in Odiya]

2011

Anna Kauber. Rosanova 25, pp. 60-81. [in Italian]

‘Tired of Left apathy, agriculture scientist shifts base to Orissa’. The Bengal Post (23 June), p. 3.

 

2010

Lidia Montemurri. Saving seeds and preserving culture. Permaculture vol. 65 (Autumn), pp. 33-36.

Sankar Ray. Look, it’s bamboo! Hindu Business Line (26 Feb)

Sambad (July 2010) [in Odiya]

Mar Carrera & Alba Gomez. ‘Debal Deb: És possible treballar sense pensar només en maximitzar beneficis.’ Directa 195, pp. 4-5. [in Catalan]

 


2007

Paroma Basu. Nature Medicine 13 (10), p. 1128.

 

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