Jitendra Choubey is Bangalore / New Delhi based Journalist. He writes on Environment, Politics, Agriculture, Food, AgriBusiness, Agri-Technology and Science. He worked with magazine (Down To Earth) as well as daily newspaper (The New Indian Express) in India. He is interested in writing long-form and crunching data. He has contributed to some international publications like Zenger, SciDev, DW, NATUR, LE MONDE on health, environment, wildlife and agriculture and food. He was fellow to Robert Bosch Stiftung Foundation, Germany in 2018. He has also experience of working with multilateral agency FAO, and think tank MS Swaminathan Research Foundation.
It's a crazy reintroduction project: the cheetah, extinct in India, is returning as an import from South Africa. But the new old neighbor makes life difficult for indigenous communities - and threatens the Asiatic lion.
The Himalayan Gaddi community of pastoralists has long lived from the land. But with rising temperatures pushing them higher up into mountains in search of grazing pastures, their way of life is under threat.
The union government may allow the cultivation of controversial herbicide-tolerant genetically modified (GM) crops. For this, the government is providing training to 4000 youths and farmers to renders spraying services.
New research shows that India’s sovereign credit rating will be downgraded due to the impact of climate change and the rise in temperature volatility by 2030s.
A significant proportion of Indian birds are in grave peril. They are declining fast, especially the migrant birds, insectivores and carnivores, and habitat specialists – birds of grasslands and other open habitats, wetlands and woodlands.
A plant virus disease first identified in China has been detected in north Indian paddy fields causing fears of reduced crop yields at a time when extreme weather events have already hampered grain production.