Grown among different varieties of millet crops, the uncultivated greens have high nutritional value.

A neighbourhood forest, explains Anasuyamma, spreads across 12-16 hectares (ha) and usually grows timber, fruits and medicinal plants.

Regenerating forests, rejuvenating soils, recharging groundwater, and reviving human spirits, all go hand in hand!

Apart from resistance against mining and implementation of forest rights, what other activities are taking place at the MGS level?

दहिया खेती पोष्टिक अनाज के साथ खाद्य सुरक्षा भी करेगी, जैव विविधता भी बचाएगी।

Forests inhabited by Adivasis are some of the best conserved in the subcontinent ... and ‘indigenous knowledge’ is invaluable.

Learning how to measure their land, mark boundaries, draw up lists of forest produce and plan secure livelihoods based on these.

The fair saw at least 40 varieties of tuber which are cultivated organically by Kunabi community people and other farmers in Joida taluk.

"Tribals have an enormous storehouse of knowledge on food gathering, shifting hill cultivation, pastoralism, labour and handicrafts,”