Economics and Technologies

Community-based alternatives for production, consumption, and exchange

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This section features stories of initiatives that help to create an alternative to the dominant neo-liberal or state-dominated economy. These include: localisation of economic activity with democratic control, producer and consumer collectives, local currencies and trade, non-monetised exchage and the gift economy, ecologically sensitive products and processes, macro-economic concepts that respect ecological limits, and approaches to human well-being that go beyond growth, GDP and other narrow measures and indicators.

What we do not feature are superficial and false solutions, such as market and technological fixes for problems that are deeply social and political, or more generally, ‘green growth’ kind of approaches that only tinker around with the existing system.

Principles of Transformative Alternatives

To build various kinds of systemic alternatives together into a larger movement ... and to jointly envision a future

Statement and Appeal on Ladakh’s Union Territory Status

Include Ladakh in the Sixth Schedule of the Indian Constitution (Ladakh Autonomous Hill Development Council also to have control)

How Many Farmer Producer Companies Are There in India?

It is imperative to understand exactly how many producer companies there are.

Chemistry Nobel Prize has a rural Odisha connection

The Maligaon Solar Micro-Grid is the first instance where a village level electricity generation unit has used Lithium Ferro-Phosphate batteries.

Friend of the Small Ruminants

A total of 160 families have enrolled themselves for the formal system of livestock services provided by her.

Cattle farmers revive traditional herbal remedies

“Dairy farmers in our village sit together as a group once a month and make medicinal balls made of herbs to boost immunity for our cows,”

In the age of seed companies, free distribution aims to preserve native paddy

If a farmer collects 2 kg of Seeraga samba variety of paddy, he must repay with 4 kg of seeds after harvest.

How Kanjikuzhi became Kerala’s first chemical-free, vegetable-sufficient panchayat

"When we offer organic produce at a reasonable price, we believe we are addressing two aspects of a buyer’s need — finance and health.”

Insect-eating bird population drops in heavily extracted Himalayan oak forests

Encourage local communities to capitalise on the increased bird tourism in Uttarakhand by setting up homestays ...