News & Updates

• • July 26, 2020

  • Is intensive livestock production responsible for emerging infectious diseases

  • ‘One health’ as a concept and an approach where people from different disciplines work together to improve public health may be one of the solutions for supporting and helping the livestock sector at this critical stage. It is high time we recognise the connection between people, animals, plants and their shared environment.

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• • May 30, 2020

  • Did African Swine Fever Come to India Because We Left the Door Open?

  • Did African Swine Fever Come to India Because We Left the Door Open?

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• • May 30, 2020

  • Dirty Pigs, Epidemics and a Contagion that Flows Down the River .

  • Dirty Pigs, Epidemics and a Contagion that Flows Down the River . A version of this article appears in https://science.thewire.in/health/african-swine-fever-pig-farming-industrial-piggeries-assam-arunachal-pradesh/  Nitya S. Ghotge, Sumi Krishna, Mamta Dhawan and Chandana C. Baruah The year 2020 will go down as the “Year of Disasters” – a global pandemic, the collapse of health care systems, the plight of India’s … Continue reading “Dirty Pigs, Epidemics and a Contagion that Flows Down the River .”

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• • April 3, 2020

  • Difficult times for Livestock farmers

  • The Covid 19 has proven to be difficult for livestock farmers   https://www.outlookhindi.com/view/general/livestock-farmers-badly-hit-by-cororavirus-47156     

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• • January 7, 2020

  • New Movie

  • A new movie  is  available online . Natural ways to manage bloat in livestock  https://www.accessagriculture.org/natural-ways-manage-bloat-livestock

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• • May 3, 2019

  • 2019 Summer Interns at Anthra

  • This summer  we are happy to welcome a large number of interns and volunteers to support our work .  At present we have Stanislas Garnier from ISTOM, France who is studying the changing perceptions and patterns of selection of sheep by Dhangar shepherds of Maharashtra. Sneha Gawai from Tata Institute of Social Sciences ,Tuljapur who … Continue reading “2019 Summer Interns at Anthra”

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• • January 10, 2019

  • Field work for students from TISS begins

  • A New Year and we are ready to welcome a fresh batch of students from TISS Tuljapur who will conduct field work with us at Anthra  Adwitiya Prakash, Jitendra Tiwari, Anjali P and Sneha P Gawai will visit the field areas where Anthra works in the states of Maharashtra, Karnataka and Gujarat and learn about … Continue reading “Field work for students from TISS begins”

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• • September 18, 2018

  • Veterinarians and traditional animal health care

  • We invite you to read what others have to say about our work http://www.agroinsight.com/blog/?p=2678

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• • July 12, 2018

  • Good Food journey takes a break in Pune

  • The good food journey which began one wet rainy morning in Khargarh in 2016, took a break in Pune  on a hot summer day this May . Travellers on this journey were representatives from different regions in Maharashtra – farmers , hawkers , women who ran canteens , consumers, concerned citizens  interested in  food debates … Continue reading “Good Food journey takes a break in Pune”

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• • December 27, 2017

  • Seema Kulkarni joins the Board of Anthra

  • We are happy to have Seema Kulkarni join the Board of Anthra . Seema  is a researcher and presently  a Senior Fellow at SOPPECOM, Pune. She has over 27 years of experience as a project leader in several projects with reference to gender, water, sanitation, land and livelihoods and has also been the convenor of … Continue reading “Seema Kulkarni joins the Board of Anthra”

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