A go-to fund created by women to take care of small expenses and activities linked to pressing needs that follow disasters.

“If you empower people then what happens is that it creates incentives for people that are self-generated. "

एक शिकारी जमात आज पक्षी-संवर्धन आणि माळरान-पुनरुज्जीवनाच्या माध्यमातून स्वतःसाठी सन्मानजनक उपजीविकेची निर्मिती करीत आहे.

With smart policies and adequate grassroots support, artisanal goods of India could soon be treated on par with counterparts abroad.

Simple structure, used for shelter from weather and protection from wild animals, and also to store food. The hearth is under the elevated floor.

More compact neighbourhoods are likely to support a greater number of grocery stores and have healthy food stores in close proximity.

A diversified Gandhian village economy attempting to train Dalit women and women from other marginalised castes in new remunerative skills

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

Community networks are involved in collective farming (which is based on social ownership of means of production and collective labour.)