Environment and Ecology

Environmental conservation and sustainability, respecting ecological integrity and limits

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This section relates to initiatives that promote the principles of ecological integrity and limits. These are initiatives which envision models of decentralized conservation of land, water and biodiversity, based on a respect for both local and modern knowledge, and considering environment as an integral part of life and work. It also highlight attempts at linking livelihoods to ecological regeneration and restoration at local and landscape level. It will feature innovative attempts to deal with problems of pollution and waste. Overall, this section will try to work towards an understanding of the ecosystem which includes sociological, historical and geographical considerations while deciding on the path that local urban/ rural communities and the larger society take towards well-being.

The art of foraging: How indigenous people can be the influencers we need

Foraging, which is a part of the received wisdom of many indigenous communities, can offer a sustainable solution to the inevitable food crisis.

From abundance to endangerment to revival, Kachchh’s guggal comes a full circle

Local farmers began to grow the guggal—both for economic benefit, as well as for community awareness and involvement in its conservation.

Dongria Kondh Tribals Take on Corporate Goliaths to Save Forests

The Niyamgiri Suraksha Samiti and the MSS are demanding the immediate recognition of Community Forest Rights and Individual Forest Rights of tribals to their forests, as mandated under the FRA 2006.

जंगल को कैसे बचा रहे हैं छत्तीसगढ़ के कमार ? (In Hindi)

कमार आदिवासियों ने जंगल बचाने के साथ आजीविका भी बचाई है|

Crisis in India’s bread basket

How agriculture, capital and corporate investment have reshaped Indian Punjab, and brought about its current precarity

The Bicycle: Selected Writings on Bicycle

Essays offering a perspective on bicycle movements and the politics involved in it.

पानी को सहेजने की परम्परा (In Hindi)

पानी सरीखे बुनियादी संसाधन को लेकर क्या किया जाए?

Declining bird populations are a ‘grim’ reminder of rapid biodiversity loss, says new report

Targeted, systematic, periodic monitoring of bird populations and using consistent methods can help species management.

Ruza, a traditional water harvesting system for the water-scarce mountains

It is a communal practice with the water shared among families and an integrated form of farming comprising forestry, horticulture, agriculture, fishery and animal husbandry.