The Hakki Pikkis are an entrepreneurial community. Theirs is an economy of subsistence and the marginalised. Their trade networks do not conform to the known notions of the ‘poor’.

It is a communal practice with the water shared among families and an integrated form of farming comprising forestry, horticulture, agriculture, fishery and animal husbandry.

Resistance to such destructive projects by helping the communities and their organisations fight them and developing alternatives through research and capacity building should be seen as part of our interventions or engagement in the urban space.

Urban foraging of edible plants in Bengaluru.

प्रकृति को निहारना, पक्षियों को देखना, उनकी आवाजें सुनना सुकून व शांति देता है।

Through barley, the mela projected an inter-connected web of life and how the death of any one of those nodes disturbs the entire web leading to ills and illnesses of many kinds. 

Conservation of traditional Himachali designs, and promotion of rural and women development through skill development, employment generation and independence

This regenerated, natural ‘forest-farm’ with its pristine, unpolluted environment, is ideal to pick up lessons in biodiversity and sustainable living

Marine Spatial Planning (MSP) and Ocean Accounting (OA) are both important tools in promoting sustainable blue economy; both are on the anvil in India.