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Are Micro-Grids for Rural Electrification the Answer?
The community identified the forces that spun their old vicious cycle and determined what to change to start a more virtuous one.
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Forest Rights Act and Conservation in Korchi
The Forest Rights Act has changed the lives of hundreds of people, helping them to protect their forests and increase their incomes
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Counting sheep as grasslands shrink in Gujarat
Herds provided post-harvest manure for the fields with their dung and urine. The farmers gave the pastoralists bajra, sugar and tea.
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The Dafaalis of Pithoragarh: a young tribe of nature-loving wanderers
By volunteering with the Harela Society, Pithoragarh youth have found different ways to make the conservation of nature a part of their daily lives.
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How India’s Indigenous Farmers Are Successfully Resisting Climate Change
They let at least ten species of pests, insects, ants, flies, earthworms, spiders, birds and other pollinators to thrive on their lands.
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Farming for Healing
What does it take to create and maintain an organic medicinal farm, in the face of rampant development?
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हरवलेला रास्ता (in Marathi)
सुप्रीम कोर्टाने हा रस्ता वैज्ञानिक आधाराचा अभाव असलेला व पूर्णतः धोकादायक असल्याचा निवाडा दिला
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A Road to nowhere
The road was adjudged to be completely unscientific and dangerous.
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The Diverging Paths of Two Young Women Foretell the Fate of a Tribe in India
The tribe’s resilience is based on an intellectual heritage—one taught not in writing but in oral lore, manual skills, and naturalist knowledge.