KOCHI: His ability to think out of the box and come up with incredible inventions had prompted several rubber plantation owners to approach Zachariah Mathew and ask him to design a motorised rubber ...

Rubber tapping in the forest was once the main Amazonian economic activity, and now an Indigenous group is bringing it back. Partnering with Brazilian organizations, Indigenous Gavião communities find ...

For more than 30 years Babu Joseph has been tending rubber trees on his small farm in the southern Indian state of Kerala. Kerala used to be home to thousands of producers like him, who made a living ...