Knowledge and media as empowering and enabling tools for equity and sustainability
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Knowledge and media as empowering and enabling tools for equity and sustainability
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This section features stories of use of knowledge as an empowering and enabling tool for a more equitable and ecologically sustainable world. This includes: Initiatives that encourage cross-fertilisation between ideas, promotes information exchange and transcends boundaries between modern and traditional, formal and informal, and urban and rural spheres of knowledge; Initiatives that make information access free, or easier in places usually neglected, considered ‘remote’ or disconnected; Initiatives to make knowledge part of the ‘commons’ rather than a commodity, privately owned or controlled; Also initiatives that promote an alternative media that raises questions ignored or deliberately allowed to remain hidden in the mainstream media, and innovative use of media to communicate enabling information.
Traditional Wisdom and Climate Change: Exploring Lived Experience of the Koli Community
The paper raises questions of community and property rights and explores how climate change as a phenomenon has affected the daily lives of the fishing community over the years.
Farmers pin hopes on new agricultural calendar to weather climate variabilities
Wayanad farmers create a new agricultural calendar harnessing traditional farming knowledge in a bid to adapt to climate change.
India’s 2024 Election Results Should Spur a Renewed Movement Towards Justice, Equity, and Sustainability
From the perspective of the VSGA, which represent a wide section of the country’s regions and peoples, these results are a sign that Indian democracy is alive, kicking and maturing.
“Exploring the Rich Biodiversity & culture on 118 acres of Agricultural Landscape in Satara, Maharashtra, INDIA”
In the broader environmental assessment, the focus often centers on human expectations, but this review delves into narrower scopes, exploring human interactions with the natural world.
Why a community-run Gondi-language school in Gadchiroli is a revolutionary step
It is a symbol of the resolve of the local Gond community to uphold their culture within the bounds of the Constitution, despite official neglect.
Look beyond the looks: To strategize and promote native trees in urban India
Conservation of species is possible in the cities too only if we are careful enough in doing the science and then reaching out to the government bodies and corporate houses to inform that science.
What Time is the Nomad?
Talking with Pabubhai, a nomadic pastoralist from the Rabari community in Kachchh, revealed the importance of time and temporality for his life and livelihood.
For The Love Of Trees: Kashmiri Man’s Lonely Quest Of Planting, Nurturing Chinars, Majestic Trees Of Valley
“My passion to plant trees is a testament to the love I have for my homeland and the responsibility I feel towards it,” says Abdul Ahad Khan.
अच्छी सेहत के लिए साइकिल जरूरी (In Hindi)
साइकिल एक बहु उपयोगी वाहन है। इसकी उपयोगिता कई रचनात्मक कामों में भी सामने आती रही है।