Category: Livelihoods - Page 72

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.

“I want to Change Things!”

"... But when we asked them to repay the loans they had taken from us, the whole village refused."

Raju: 1 Billion(!) Trees planted in a Day!

S. M. Raju ingeniously integrated the Indian government’s rural employment guaranty scheme (NREGA) with tree plantation drives.

The Most Excited Man In The World Tells You How He Changed Lives Of Rickshaw Drivers For Good

“Their children are now going to school – and most importantly, they are accepted by society”

Gujarati women excel as breeders of camels and buffaloes

Herder Meera Bhen, from the Kutch region, is making history throughout India, as her idea of marketing camels' milk takes off

Meghalaya: Sparks of Hope

Two villages in Meghalaya revive their farming traditions, conserving biodiversity and securing their livelihoods.

Hiware Bazar : A conversation with Popatrao Pawar

A free wheeling conversation with Popatrao Pawar, the legendary Sarpanch of Hiware Bazar. Pawar led Hiware Bazar's transformation from a drought- prone village to a green and prosperous model village, thus successfully reproducing Anna Hazare's Ralegaon Siddhi model of village development. In this conversation, he talks us through his journey of the last 25 years and the principles by which the village governs itself.