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Perumbakkam way- Community efforts towards climate resilience
Helping community members bounce back from difficulties and improve their capacity to face risks, environmental or otherwise.
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The revival of millets is improving the lives of tribespeople in Odisha
The festival celebrates the ancient practice through which farmers exchange indigenous heirloom seeds, also with the younger generation, passing down their knowledge alongside the heirloom seeds."
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Press Release: Urgent Need to Support Goba System of Ladakh- 20-21 Sept 2022
The goba system is still highly relevant for Ladakhi society and people have laid out recommendations for its continuation.
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India at 75: Stepping back from an ecological abyss
The biggest challenge: can ecological sustainability be ensured while generating livelihood security and dignity for more than a billion people?
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The Changpas’ way of life is undergoing shocks and disruption
The Changpas embody custodianship as a model of relationship with nature, embedded in ecological pragmatism, an alternative to the modern construct of ownership.
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Changing lives around the Mahakali
Women's role in governance, water management and conservation pivotal for transboundary water dialogues with villages across the river in Uttarakhand
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Open Prisons Work – Lessons From India
Open prisons are a humane solution for rehabilitation, leading to negligible rates of recidivism, at a fraction of the cost of regular prisons.
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PRESS RELEASE- URGENT NEED TO SUPPORT GOBA SYSTEM OF LADAKH
Encouraging the UT Administration and the Hill Council, along with Ladakhi society, to recognise and strengthen the goba (or nambardar) system.
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Assessment of traditional rainwater harvesting system in barren lands of a semi-arid region: A case study of Rajasthan
During the monsoon season, the excess rainwater from Chauka and ponds flows into the river. This seasonal river meets a larger dam downstream that provides water to many districts in Rajasthan