The festival celebrates the ancient practice through which farmers exchange indigenous heirloom seeds, also with the younger generation, passing down their knowledge alongside the heirloom seeds."

झारखंड के दो गावों ने जंगल से आग बुझाकर उन्हें न केवल हरा-भरा कर लिया है बल्कि वे ईंधन, चारा, पानी और जंगल से जुड़े खान-पान के मामले में आत्मनिर्भर हो गए हैं।

Grassland productivity is driven by rainfall, not by the absence of soil fertility or the need for ‘improved grass varieties.

A federation of farmer-producer organisations has tapped into the growing organic market to help members raise incomes

The revival of millets is helping women farmers in the tribal districts of the state to enhance their livelihood opportunities and become financially independent.

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.

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.