Environmental degradation accounts for a large part of India’s disease burden. Our work focuses on establishing and assessing the linkages between environment and public health, particularly the health risks arising from growing pollutants in air, food and water. At the grassroots, we have demonstrated practical and sustainable approaches to overcoming malnutrition in tribal communities by enabling them to grow and consume locally available bioresources.
While preparedness, alerts and warnings, and other measures of heat action plans have vastly reduced the impact of heat waves, the duration and frequency of climate-induced heat waves are on the rise. Jency Samuel says that as heat waves impact people’s health and livelihood, and the nation’s economy adversely, there is a need to improve and better implement the heat action plans.
Air pollution is one of the five leading causes of death worldwide. An eminent cardiologist associated with the Harvard Medical School presents terrifying statistics on worldwide deaths linked to air pollution. Air pollution-linked illness was found to be seven crores globally, and 70 lakh people lost their lives, according to the WHO. Out of these deaths, about 24 lakh deaths were associated with Ischemic Heart Disease (IHD), and 13 lakh deaths were due to heart strokes, that is, a total of 37 lakh deaths from heart-ailments.
As part of the DST-sponsored project “Innovative Interventions in Mokhada Block of Palghar District to Address Malnutrition and Enhance Livelihoods of ST Communities,” a two-day training workshop was conducted on November 27–28, 2024, in Hirve and Gonde Khurd villages. Led by Project Associates Vaishnavi Narvankar and Dr Ninad Marathe, 37 tribal women belonging to Self-Help Groups (SHGs) received training for the cultivation of oyster mushrooms and Azolla.
The Energy and Resources Institute (TERI) in partnership with The Australian Government, announces Project ‘Hack4Agri’- an initiative to engage the youth of Karnataka to ideate, innovate, incubate, and implement scalable solutions to address post-harvest losses in the agricultural sector.
Taking a Breath of Fresh Knowledge: TERI's Health Camp in Lucknow
The webinar aims at highlighting various leads being taken to derive nano-materials from different waste resources via a 'Circular Economy' model.
On 7 October 2021, 02:00 PM to 4:30 PM IST
The webinar aims to raise awareness around nanotechnological application in food and feed sectors.
On 26 August 2021, 2:00 PM to 4:00 PM IST
India's struggle with nutritional issues must lead to a transformation where nutrition becomes an integral of agriculture and economic planning, says Dr Manish Anand, Senior Fellow, Resource Efficiency and Governance Division, TERI and Ms Vidhu Gupta, Project Research Scientist, IIT Roorkee.
Dr Manish Anand, Senior Fellow of TERI, an organization working on sustainable development, said there has been no coordination between our food security and nutrition security policies. India has diverse agricultural systems according to different agro-climatic zones. Our food security policies encouraged monocropping, in which more focus was given on wheat and paddy. We created a very strong ecosystem from their production to procurement. This gave us food security, but nutrition security was not given that much importance.
A two-day workshop on participatory mapping for grassroot leaders for implementation of seventh operational phase of GEF small grants was organised collaboratively by TERI (The Energy and Resource Institute) and region's premier biodiversity conservation organisation Aaranyak recently. The workshop was organised during June 27-28 at the Community Resource Centre, Chandrasing Rongpi Memorial High School, Chandrasing Rongpi of Kaziranga-Karbi Anglong landscape in Assam.
A TERI-UNOPS (The Energy and Resources Institute) United Nations Office for Project Services collaborative initiative on "Capacity Building Programme Targeting School Children on Climate Change, Health, and Hygiene across 11 Districts of Uttar Pradesh, India", concluded with a National Conference held in New Delhi on 20 June 2024.
On February 22, 2024, a significant milestone was achieved in Meghalaya with the inauguration of the Holistic Wellness Centre and the launch of the Meghalaya Traditional Knowledge Portal. A Collaborative programme of Bio-Resource Development Centre, an autonomous R&D institution under Planning Department, Government of Meghalaya, The Energy and Resources Institute, New Delhi and the Meghalaya Basin Development Agency.
The need of the hour is a multi-pronged approach focused on short supply chains, sustainable public food procurement and redistribution, a network of partners that support food-processing-driven rural livelihood diversification and diversified diets. To help make affordable food widely available, three partnerships are crucial: with panchayats, the private sector and pathshalas (schools).
Heavy metal pollution is a great concern for the environment and human health, especially in developing countries like India. Owing to their toxic, non-degradable and bio-accumulative nature, health burden on the population has increased significantly.
The discussion paper 'Clean Fuel for Cooking: Solution to Achieve Better Air Quality' aims to analyse and estimate the financial support that may be required to encourage Pradhan Mantri Ujjwala Yojana (PMUY) consumers to switch to LPG for cooking their major meals, over and above the existing subsidy and other financial incentives, as well as to identify a
The series 'Cooking with cleaner fuels in India: a strategic analysis and assessment' is a collection of four policy briefs that carry findings emanating from a joint research by TERI and All India Institute of Medical Sciences (with support from UNICEF) on healthy cooking fuel options for India. The briefs trace the usage of different fuels in rural and urban households, health implications of using less cleaner cooking fuels, and stakeholder partnerships of governments, funding agencies, industry and consumer groups to accelerate adoption of cleaner cooking fuels.
