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Niladri Giri | 10+ Years Agriculture Field Work

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Science Spectrum

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6d ago

The World’s Favourite Banana Is a Clone. Science Is Looking for Backup.

How a fruit perfected for the global supermarket became vulnerable to disease, and why scientists are trying to bring diversity back into…

The World’s Favourite Banana Is a Clone. Science Is Looking for Backup.

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The New Climate.

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Niladri Giri | 10+ Years Agriculture Field Work

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6d ago

The Climate Cost of Dinner: What Food Labels Don’t Tell You

From beef to rice, organic to local, the numbers behind a meal’s emissions depend on what is counted. What holds up, and what doesn’t?

The Climate Cost of Dinner: What Food Labels Don’t Tell You

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The Quantastic Journal

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Niladri Giri | 10+ Years Agriculture Field Work

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6d ago

If Millets Are So Good for Us, Why Don’t We Eat More of Them?

India’s household data offer a case study in why a food can be praised everywhere and eaten less with every decade.

Millet flour in a kitchen

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Oct 7

Five Rupees in May, Forty-Three in September

Why India’s farm-price crashes rarely reach shoppers, and its price spikes reach farmers only if they can afford to wait

Five Rupees in May, Forty-Three in September

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The New Climate.

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Niladri Giri | 10+ Years Agriculture Field Work

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Oct 1

The Last Form: Where Climate Finance Fails

An agricultural field officer on why climate funds never make it past the block office

The Last Form: Where Climate Finance Fails

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The Quantastic Journal

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Niladri Giri | 10+ Years Agriculture Field Work

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Sep 24

The Smell of the First Rain

Why a drizzle on dry ground smells stronger than a storm, and what the smell tells a farmer

The Smell of the First Rain

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Southern Winds

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Niladri Giri | 10+ Years Agriculture Field Work

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Sep 23

These Farmers Have Grown Organic for Generations. They Just Can’t Prove It.

A market built to reward them has found a way to leave them out.

These Farmers Have Grown Organic for Generations. They Just Can’t Prove It.

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The New Climate.

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Niladri Giri | 10+ Years Agriculture Field Work

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Sep 21

The Grandmothers Who Read the Sky

Before the algorithmic forecast, rural communities relied on an intricate web of living indicators. Now, a changing climate is breaking the…

The Grandmothers Who Read the Sky

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The Quantastic Journal

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Niladri Giri | 10+ Years Agriculture Field Work

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Sep 8

The Number on the Soil Health Card

What a soil test can honestly tell a farmer — and where its certainty runs out

The Number on the Soil Health Card What a soil test can honestly tell a farmer — and where its certainty runs out

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The New Climate.

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Niladri Giri | 10+ Years Agriculture Field Work

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Sep 2

The Split Ledger: How Farming’s Cheapest Input Became its Biggest Debt

Conventional economics mistakes the transfer of chemical toxicity to farm households for efficiency

The Split Ledger: How Farming’s Cheapest Input Became its Biggest Debt

Niladri Giri | 10+ Years Agriculture Field Work

Niladri Giri | 10+ Years Agriculture Field Work

Agriculture Officer | Analysing Policy. I translate the economics of survival from the paddock to the boardroom. Let's solve the right problem.

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