The biggest challenge: can ecological sustainability be ensured while generating livelihood security and dignity for more than a billion people?

"When we are making a thread, what comes out of it is another thing, but the inner process we go through while making it is what is transformational, liberating, honest and holds the true integrity of labour and self.," says Rupsi.

He spent his life implementing Gandhian ideas, advocating for local self-governing institutions of tribals and local people. He was a patron of local culture and spiritual practices.

Vimal bhai touched thousands of lives in a deeply personal and political way. He represented the true rainbow of resistance in his work of struggle and solidarity.

When people were connected with land and agriculture, it had a healthy bearing on our cultural sensibilities.

The Changpas embody custodianship as a model of relationship with nature, embedded in ecological pragmatism, an alternative to the modern construct of ownership.

Ways in which residential buildings can be made cooler – a set of techniques called ‘passive design’ because they do not require the expending of energy for cooling.

Sustainable harvest of honey and conservation of bees while employing the values of small-scale production, rural-livelihood development and women empowerment

Chefs, scholars and farmer collectives are trying to document the medicinal and nutritional value of wild foods