Livelihoods

Environmental conservation and sustainability, respecting ecological integrity and limits

The search for dignified, ecologically sustainable and meaningful livelihoods and jobs is featured in this section. This includes the continuation and enhancement of fulfilling traditional occupations that communities choose to continue, including in agriculture, pastoralism, forestry, fisheries, crafts, and others in the primary economy. It also includes sustainable, dignified jobs in manufacturing and service sectors where producers and service-providers are in control of their destinies and revenues are equitably distributed.

Understanding ‘Bait’: Stories from the Alpine Pastures of Jammu and Kashmir

The popularity of Bait (बैत) (traditional music) is significant due to the presence and visibility of Gojri language in public spaces.

This Diwali women farmers in Maharashtra are sowing seeds of entrepreneurship

Village women decided to make seeds out of dry vegetables and take these to the market.

न बिजली, न डीजल-ईंजन फिर भी ये आदिवासी किसान कर रहे हैं सिंचाई (in Hindi)

इस प्रकार, प्रकृति, वन्य जीव, और जंगल का संरक्षण करते हुए कृषि के लिए पानी की व्यवस्था की है।

SIRI to set up integrated millets processing units in Telangana

(Also) setting up a back-end integration network, involving Primary Agricultural Cooperative Societies

People of the Blue Mountains

"It's their mainstream, what we call alternatives"

Sankar and his community dig canals to save Muthupet’s mangroves

Over 3,000 canals spread across 5,000 hectares dug in order to save mangroves that supported the fish on which the community dependes.

KASKOM: Revival of Desi Cotton

Kaskom - connecting the Khadi people across the country to work with Indigenous (desi) cotton.

How this Kerala doctor-couple is empowering a TN tribal community

To ensure the health of the community in its wider meaning you have to work on farming, watershed management, artisans ...

Conserving The Future

To help in wildlife conservation of a delicate, high altitude ecosystem in one of the least populated districts of the country.