One’s livelihood ensures another’s safety
One’s livelihood ensures another’s safety: Newly formed women’s group are making masks for Sanitary workers Marginalized communities are the most affected by the pandemic as it continues to dent their livelihoods and their income. Yet there are stories of communities & people coming together to help those that are most vulnerable and are of dire […]
The Thing That We Saw And Got Scared Of
My name is Nadhiya, I am going to tell you the story about THE THING THAT WE SAW AND GOT SCARED OFF, THIS WEEK. We went to Horosholai. This week we stayed at Gokul brother’s house. After we were done with all the interview, we went to Joni halla, we went there and were […]
A Community led Nursery at Wayanad
Setting up a Community led nursery is one way to address land degradation, livelihood issues, and contribute to climate change adaption & mitigation. Close to 20,000 saplings will be grown at this nursery setup in Wayanad, Kerala. It is being managed by a farmers group along with a women’s self-help group in the region. Members […]
Week 5_Ecology & Biodiversity Management in human use landscapes
Week 5 was the much awaited week on Ecology, after 3 weeks of community, sanitation, livelihoods, enterprise and governance. The week focused on the Nilgiri Biosphere Reserve, with case studies from the region. However, all through the week, the broader concepts of socio-ecological systems and traditional ecological knowledge were drawn upon through lecture and reading […]
Week 4_Livelihoods in transition and Enterprise
Week 4 turned the lens on livelihoods in the Nilgiris – the past and the changing trends of the present. While the Cornell students predominantly saw white collar jobs and professions as livelihood options, the Nilgiris students said it was more rooted in the land, even in these times of quick transition. Exercises and sessions […]
Week 3_Governance, Water & Waste
The week started off on a high note with the students being dropped in the middle of a grievance day program (as observers) at the district collector’s office. In a short span of a few hours the students got a sense of the complexity of governance – in terms of process and structure in large […]
2020 Feb 3_Kinship Conservation Workshop
India is a land of biodiversity with rich vegetation and wildlife. No doubt, it is under threat due to various reasons and making conservation of this valuable diversity important. In India, officially it is the State that formulates the policy and controls the ambit of conservation. But, in a country like ours, there are communities […]
Week 2_And it Begins
Week 2 of the NFLC 2020 focused on the theme of community wellbeing, gender and power norms (relating to gender) under the broad umbrella of Anthropological studies. Lectures, readings and discussion covered the history, complexity and theories of ethnographic methods used in anthropological studies with a focus on gender. The Cornell students got their first […]
Slow Food Festival 2020
A food festival is a long-established celebration at Keystone and a great community event to bring local people together. Keystone Foundation, along with its sister organisations celebrated Terra Madre (a Slow Food event celebrating local food globally) on 3rd and 4th January 2020, with the Indigenous people, local communities and people from the town area […]
Setting up an Enterprise model for unemployed women
Vivekanadapuram, Periyanaickenpalayam & Bavinayaganagar in Narasimanaickenplayam Today women entrepreneurs contribute for up to a third of all businesses operating in the formal economy worldwide. Women across the world with strong entrepreneurial ambitions are setting up a women – centric model business. This provides income opportunities especially for women from marginalized communities. Yet, access to finance and networks are a […]
