Fadaki, The Royal Cloth
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Lavhalwadi is a small hamlet in the Sahyadris where an indigenous community, the Thakar live for hundreds of years. The women gather... Read More
The Forest with Diamonds: mining thoughts from Panna
Article by Snehlata Nath Bundelkhand, an area famous for its history, forests, forts and temples was dry and hot by the end... Read More
FRA Training workshop for community members of five villages in Kinwat Taluka, Nanded District – Community Forest Resource Area, formation of Conservation and Management Plan Committees and related issues; May 31st 2016
Backdrop The training workshop was organized at the request of Navi Ummed on 31st May 2016 under the Policy and Legal Action... Read More
Education oriented to an Ecology-based Economy
Article by Felix Padel & Malvika Gupta In the Niyamgiri movement against Vedanta’s attempts to mine a sacred mountain, nothing is more educational... Read More
Exploring the potentials of mahua-seed oil
Samarthak Samiti Udaipur has been working with adivasi people dependent on NTFPs for about 10 years. The Samiti’s aim is work for... Read More
Bamboo Notes from the Western Ghats
Introduction The presence of bamboo has been recorded since the Cretaceous period – about 144 million years ago – when the first... Read More
Magari Women and sirka production in Rajasthan: a success story
Magri is a village in Pratapgarh district, known the abundance of jamun trees. Unfortunately, most of the fruit are wasted; only about... Read More
NTFP enterprise helps tribal women farmers gain economic independence: a story from Rajasthan
Jhabla is a small village situated about 50 km from Udaipur on Udaipur-Ahmadabad highway. The village is inhabited by poor peasants of... Read More
Granite mining scams: brewing a protest
The Chodavaram Forest Range in the Visakhapatnam Forest Division and district has rich bio-diverse pockets which are home to a cycad species,... Read More
A step towards their own forest for the Mankdia people of Simlipal in Odisha
The Mankdia, Khadia and the Lodha communities are three classified Primitive and Vulnerable Tribal Groups (PVTGs) living in the Mayurbhanj district of... Read More