Homegardens play a crucial role in carbon sequestration and livelihood support, with studies showing that higher plant diversity increases both carbon storage and household economic returns.

The festival was part of the UN’s International Year of Rangelands and Pastoralists, with February dedicated to Mobility, Land, and Water Security. It was also the International Month of the buffalo.

This curation casts its net on films about cities to draw in work less heard about, filmmakers rooted in their communities and showing them from their unique perspectives.

A recent study documents medicinal plants used by Indigenous communities in West Sikkim in India, linking traditional healing to the conservation of sacred groves and monastery forests.

If River Musi led Hyderabad’s planning, it would demand the restoration of the entire water network and integrating all aspects of the built environment with water spaces such as river banks, flood plains, and wetlands.

A group of women in Uttarakhand have crafted a space to build autonomy, agency and collective self-reliance. Khili Buransh challenges the capital-intensive, extractive, exploitative, patriarchal, casteist system prevailing in their part of society. 

पौष्टिक अनाजों की खेती के लिए महिला और बच्चों को जोड़ने की कोशिश की जा रही है। पारेंपरिक भोजन बनाने का प्रशिक्षण व बाल मेला आयोजित किए जा रहे हैं।

“It all started when Babuji [Kunjbihari] asked me to gather the women in the village,” says Suman devi, Manoharlal’s wife. “Lots of women came… nayi, gujar, jogi, brahmin, baniya, from all communities”

“To be hopeful in bad times is not just foolishly romantic. It is based on the fact that human history is a history not only of cruelty but also of compassion, sacrifice, courage, and kindness....."- Howard Zinn