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.
કપાસ પહેલાનો, ફેરવણાટ અત્યારનું (in Gujarati)
કચ્છમાં નૈસર્ગિક રીતે ઊગતા અને સદીઓથી પર્યાવરણને જાળવતા એક પ્રકારના કપાસના પુનરુત્થાનની કથા
Sunita Dhairyam is saving not just wildlife but poor villagers
While Rs.3,000 is an insignificant amount for cattle, it often prevents villagers from resorting to retaliatory killing (of the carnivore) ...
‘Whatever they do, project dead, we keep our land’
“You can say the project is as good as dead. Ten years is too long for any business,”
What binds every family in this Kerala Panchayat
Chemical-free cultivation of vegetables has evolved into a culture in Kerala’s Kanjikkuzhi Gram Panchayat.
Reweaving an Old World cotton
The story of weaving again with a variety of cotton that is suited to the local environment, organic and has been grown in Kachchh for centuries.
Straw for income
Instead of burning paddy straw, farmers in Haryana's Panipat district are using it to farm mushrooms. This has eased pollution, too
Micro-hydro Power in Udmaroo village
The micro-hydro power station at Udmaroo is owned and operated entirely by the people, and has helped the village to become more self-reliant.
Timbaktu Collective (India) Receives the OWA Gold Award
Mary Vattamattam and Bablu Ganguly succeed in implementing their vision of empowerment of the rural population to live self-determined, sustainable lives, with equal rights for both genders.
SECMOL
Here were people who were living what they believed in and what they preached, something that remains a distant dream for many of us.