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A Way of Agriculture To Manage Both Land Degradation, Groundwater Depletion
Conservation Agriculture - No ploughing, maintaining a permanent soil mulch or cover, and diversification in the cropping system.
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Gandhi’s relevance in the time of global crises
For Gandhi, swaraj had to be built ‘bottom-up’, from the village outwards across the landscape ...
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How Forest-Dwelling Communities are Braving the Pandemic
Local communities and gram sabhas better understand the local complexities than local administrations while dealing with a crisis
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COVID-19: Time to rethink development
It is also an opportunity to help people value the importance of happy and fulfilling lives over one based on earning money.
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जनता पार्लमेंट – आरोग्याच्या सत्रा मध्ये पारित ठराव, दि.16 आँगस्ट 2020 (in Marathi)
300 पेक्षा अधिक आरोग्यकर्मी, इत्यादींचा सहभाग, ५ विषयांवर चर्चा व अनेक ठराव पारित
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Citizens and parliamentarians dialogue on the way forward
43 hours of discussions, 250 speakers, over 100 resolutions, over 1000 voting participants, engaging with over 1 lakh on social media
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Jan Sarokar – People’s Policy for Post COVID-19 Times, August 2020
Opportunity to redesign our economy towards generating tens of millions of ecologically sustainable and dignified livelihoods.
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Press Release by Janta Parliament (जनता संसद) 18 Aug. 2020
Janta Parliament calls on urgent action for ecological security
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Knitting, sketching, handicrafts — quarantine’s a vacation in this Nagaland village
This picturesquely located quarantine centre comprises 14 bamboo huts, a rainwater harvesting system, and a hearth to make tea