Livelihoods
Environmental conservation and sustainability, respecting ecological integrity and limits
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Environmental conservation and sustainability, respecting ecological integrity and limits
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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.
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
TRANSITION TOWN MOVEMENT
It is an initiative or model that refers to grassroots community projects. The aim is to create the means for sustainable self-sufficiency at the local level to reduce the potential effects of peak oil, climate destruction, and economic instability.
Hakki Pikki: The global nomads of Karnataka
The Hakki Pikkis are an entrepreneurial community. Theirs is an economy of subsistence and the marginalised. Their trade networks do not conform to the known notions of the ‘poor’.
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.
Chasing Soppu: A guide to wild edible plants in Bengaluru
Urban foraging of edible plants in Bengaluru.