Promoting Wild & Uncultivated Foods in Jhiran, Madhya Pradesh
November 6, 2022 By Rohan Mukerjee, Laxman Ahkey & Gyansa BhartiProgramme Coordinator – Networks & Alliances, and Using Diversity Fellows In Chhindwara, Madhya Pradesh’s largest district, our Networks and Alliances programme is working tirelessly to preserve rapidly disappearing native crops and traditional agricultural methods. This is a challenging goal for the programme, given the complex […]
Traditional Crops and Women Farmers in Rural Jharkhand
September 20, 2022 By Rohan MukherjeeNetworks & Alliances Accompanied by Vibhishan Bhumij and Jagabandhu Sanda from Paryavaran Chetna Kendra (PCK) in Potka, I visited Mamar village in the heart of the Saranda Forest, in Manoharpur block of West Singbhum district, Jharkhand. Saranda is a dense forest in the hilly region of West Singbhum, spanning 820 […]
Enhancing Nursery Management Skills Through Knowledge Exchange
Community-managed nurseries across the globe have been lately explored as an approach to restoring forests. However, enabling them to actively engage in propagating native forest plants and managing nurseries requires the appropriate deployment of skill sets through trainings that will ensure seedling survival leading to successful forest restoration.
Training to Improve Handicrafts Skill
Capacity building and trainings are essential forms of intervention to help communities identify activities that can enhance their livelihood options. Indigenous women from the Santhal and Sabar communities of the Purulia district in West Bengal were engaged in a similar workshop/training that was held over two days.
Women of Sonagara village organized an exhibition of some of the wild foods
On the 8th of August 2021, the women of Sonagara village organized an exhibition of some of the wild foods consumed by them. The event was facilitated by PNF fellow Anita Kumari. Sonagara is home to 45 families belonging to the Bhumij community and it is situated in Potka Block of East Singhbhum district. While the […]
Online Sessions on Shifting Cultivation
The Using Diversity Network is launching a study on Shifting Cultivation practices of different PVTGs across India. The study will explore the current status of the different shifting cultivation practices, changes that have occurred in these practices, benefits the communities receive from these practices and why they continue to practice as well as challenges being […]
Overcoming Digital Divide: Collaboration over Competition
The social development sector is a highly complex sector involving many complex entities and actors such as the union/state governments and their departments, political parties, self-help groups, community organizations/members, and NGOs like us each having their agendas and objectives. In the end of each entity may strive to make sure that the resources reach its […]
Increasing Local Food Availability Through Seed Distribution
Across the nine Using Diversity project areas in Central and Eastern India – community fellows and partner organizations have carried out a variety of activities in order to prepare for the distribution of seeds. These will be used for mixed cropping, kitchen gardens and setting up of nurseries that will nurture a variety of wild plants and trees. Some of […]
Uncultivated Food and Traditional Seed Mela
Gaildubba Village, Patalkot, Chhindwara, Madhya Pradesh 20th February 2021 The Using Diversity (UD) Network, though Nirman the partner NGO in Madhya Pradesh, has been working in Patalkot since 2017. Patalkot as the Sanskrit origin of its name suggests is a deep valley spread over 79 km2 located 78 km from Chhindwara in Madhya Pradesh. This […]
Implications of opening up of 40 coal blocks for Adivasi communities and the environment
On the 18th of June 2020 Prime Minister Narendra Modi launched the auction of 41 coal mining blocks aimed at achieving self-sufficiency in meeting energy needs and boosting energy development. The auction process is open to both domestic and global firms under the 100% FDI route. The PM said the move would help reduce India’s […]
