Society, Culture and Peace

Enhancing socio-cultural well-being, ensuring justice and equity

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Featured here are initiatives to enhance social and cultural aspects of human life: the revival and progressive use of visual, performing, and other arts, of the myriad crafts of the country, of threatened or submerged languages, of food and cuisine diversity, and other such cultural traits and processes. They also cover the various struggles and constructive movements to achieve social justice, to reduce inequalities and inequities of various kinds including caste, class, gender, ethnicity, and religion, and to create dignity in living for those currently oppressed and exploited. Finally, they include movements to generate ethical living and thinking, and spread values such as simplicity, honesty, frugality, and tolerance.

Recognising the role of pastoralists in agrarian development

Migration to fertile crop fields has been the norm for pastoralists to overcome environmental variabilities

Battling Climate Change With Traditional Farming in Odisha

Women farmers are taking the lead in reviving the cultivation of native varieties of millets that are resilient to drought,…

On the path to reclaiming their land: the story of Banni and its Maldharis

Encroachments over Banni grassland to be removed, reinforcing Grazing Rights of Maldharis.

People power to clean up Pune river, bit by bit

The streams are providing cleaner water to the river and the perception of locals has also changed.

Nagaland’s Y Nuklu Phom wins prestigious Whitley Award 2021 for his ‘biodiversity peace corridor’

Once indiscriminately hunted, the falcons have in recent years seen successful conservation by local communities.

युवाओं की कहानियां (in Hindi)

संकलित कहानियां समाज में आशा और उम्मीद जगाने की हैं

A village turns into an art hub

"Art establishments are aware of our existence. They can reach us if they want to. We will be here."

Self sufficiency in the times of Covid-19

27 percent of the total relief package amount was retained within the local economy with 'local production - local consumption'.

India Biodiversity Award 2021

The Awards initiative was started jointly by the MOEFCC, National Biodiversity Authority (NBA), and United Nations Development Programme (UNDP) in 2012.