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📰 Update · Jun 3

Our plastic world: Time to say goodbye

📰 Update · Mar 22

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📰 Update · Jan 20

Why Delhi needs its Wetlands: The Okhla Bird Sanctuary

📰 Update · Jan 17

The plight of the Peri Urban space: 4 cities under the lens

📰 Update · Jan 13

Time to mainstream an ‘Ecosystem based Urban Resilience’

Buffering Gorakhpur's Floods with Climate-Resilient Peri-Urban Farming

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🇮🇳 India

In flood-prone Gorakhpur, women farmers are turning the city's peri-urban wetlands and fields into working flood buffers that also feed their families.

200hectaresPeri-urban land under climate-resilient, flood-buffering agriculture
1,975year foundedWorking on climate resilience and sustainable livelihoods since
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