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#GroundUpStories | “With their forest common lands gone, local wildlife has started moving into agricultural lands. While the animals aren’t attacking humans, they are entering private and common spaces and damaging crops. So even if these parcels of land are fertile, farmers are preferring to keep them fallow instead of investing in agriculture that is then destroyed by animals.” Read this article by Mohammad Bhakthar Vali to learn how climate change and human–animal conflict are forcing farmers in Anantapur district to cultivate fallow lands while leaving fertile lands untouched. *This is the tenth article in a 14-part series supported by MacArthur Foundation. This series highlights a diverse set of solutions, policy research, and technological innovations in India to tackle climate change, with an aim to disseminate this information to a larger audience and enable learning, collaboration, and better decision-making by stakeholders. Foundation for Ecological Security https://idronline.org/ground-up-stories/fertile-vs-fallow-land-what-are-farmers-in-andhra-pradesh-choosing/