We are committed to utilizing evidence-based approaches to advance policy advocacy, aiming for a long-lasting, sustainable impact on the future. This humble initiative, powered by a diverse team, has worked on the ground and generated knowledge across various subjects related to the UN Sustainable Development Goals. By collaborating with communities and other institutions to promote sustainability initiatives, our objective is to foster a shared commitment to sustainability.

The challenge is how to make ‘Dairy Farming’ environmentally viable 
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A way to achieve that is to use better management practices and technologies. Milk production takes place all around the globe. Worldwide demand for dairy continues to increase in large…

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Mapping Drinking Water Scarcity in Kashmir
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The change in global precipitation, increasing global temperatures, melting of glaciers, rising sea level waters, displacement of people, erratic monsoons pose an unprecedented threat to human existence. Distribution of drinking…

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Why has DD Kendra Srinagar failed to deliver its potential as a public service broadcaster?
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“Is TV a Pied Piper? Yes, it is. We had better be sure where it is leading our children.” When television psychologist Dr. Dorothy H. Cohen warned parents about the…

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Chopans: Pastoralists of Kashmir who sustain sheep farming in Kashmir
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Introduction Livestock rearing is indispensable to rural economies everywhere. J&K too is no exception. In Kashmir, besides the milch cattle, sheep farming has all along been part of farming traditions.…

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Always under the spotlight for the politics concerning this region, the vital human geography of Kashmir has never really got the kind of primacy it deserves. While a lot has been written in praise of its scenic splendour, not much focus is accorded to the elements responsible for its natural magnificence – its climate, the geography, and its interactions with the people, and vice versa.
This is perhaps why this place has not attracted the kind of scholarship it should ideally have given its geological past – of being a place desiccated from water – of an ancient lake called Sati-Sara, or having been part of the Tethys Ocean.
Even in global concerns vis-à-vis climate change, Kashmir rarely finds a mention. This is despite this region being situated within the world’s highest mountain range— the Himalayas, which are vital to the global climate, and dictate & determine the human geography & political economy of billions not only in the Indian subcontinent but the entire South Asia.
With all these observations, fears & doubts in mind, JK Policy Institute’s work is focused on SUSTAINABILITY and other matters concerning the human geography of the region.