While more and more men (who hold the title to their farms) are migrating to urban areas and large industrialised farms, women stay in the villages and are increasingly taking over cultivating the land. In Narsenahalli village, women now fear that the lands may be sold or pawned by their menfolk. So they are demanding the right to the title deeds.

Swaraj University was birthed in 2010 in Udaipur, Rajasthan as a two year learning program for youth. The focus of the program is on self-designed learning and on localisation entrepreneurship, including exploration of basic business skills redefined within the context of ecological sustainability, inner transformation and social justice.

Samrakshan’s Meghalaya field-base had undertaken community-based conservation programmes in the landscape for the last few years but our latest attempt was a community-based ecotourism programme with multiple goals. -

Faced with crop losses because of erratic rainfall and extreme weather, tribal farmers of Maharashtra, Madhya Pradesh and Chhattisgarh turn to bewar and penda forms of cultivation on land considered inferior, that keeps them nourished all times of the year, but government agencies are bent on rooting out these farm practices

The Bangaloreans in the Ugly Indians civic group have spent every week of the past year trawling the city's central business district with face masks, gloves, buckets, broomsticks and mops. Their mission is to "spot-fix" Bangalore, dirty street by dirty street, and has inspired the confidence to throw their "Ugliness Challenge" at other cities.

Adivasis, especially from the Particularly Vulnerable Tribal Groups, have expressed their desire to continue their traditional forms of governance rather than adopt the uniform panchayat raj institutions

A single man is showing what perseverance can do, in regenerating and protecting the forests of Bastar district in Chhattisgarh. The idea is spreading to neighbouring villages in Odisha, too.

Swasthya Swara (Health Swara) plans to address rural community health issues through the use of mobile phones, and at the same time help in protection and distribution of ancient knowledge that the Vaids and other traditional practitioners possess, which is in danger of vanishing forever

Where producers and consumers are in control of the systems of production and consumption.