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Rethinking participation
A reflection on the prospects and potential for communities and their natural resources in the light of their own traditions, inner character and the forces impinging upon them.
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Are we listening to the lessons taught in the first year of Covid-19?
How to set up and operate collective health systems to ensure the virus does not run rampant? And more...
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Is the system of rice intensification (SRI) consonant with agroecology?
Stop assuming that growth is limitless and resources are inexhaustible.
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Gross family happiness, the farm living way
I started feeling that my economic needs (including my wants and desires) are not unlimited.
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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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Managing commons: Need and challenges
Sustainable commons management requires a shift from competition to cooperation among the users.
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After cyclone Fani, women in a migrant fishing community start resilience fund
A go-to fund created by women to take care of small expenses and activities linked to pressing needs that follow disasters.
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The Monster in my City
The north-south and east-west Road and Rail route can be made stronger with the help of existing surface rail and bus transport
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A People’s Manifesto for the Western Himalayas Mountain region, April 2019
outlines a region-specific strategy for inclusive, ecologically sound development that takes into account the fragility of the landscape.