Where the Mahua dulls all pain This is an extract on the Maria tribe in Bastar, Chhatisgarh, which is caught between the mining corporations, security forces and the Maoists In Bastar, life seems to grow unshackled, wild and often wanton: seeds, chucked by insects and birds, don’t wait for a drizzle. They grow into a […]
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Research: Traditional Knowledge Helps Indigenous People Adapt To Climate Crisis Indigenous peoples, who make up 5% of the global population, are among the most vulnerable groups. They face issues ranging from poverty and human rights abuses to the climate crisis. Nevertheless, Indigenous peoples contribute significantly to biodiversity conservation and sustainable natural resources management. The do so, in both terrestrial and marine ecosystems, through their
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This Odisha tribe grows 20 crop varieties without jeopardising biodiversity The Bonda tribe practices a unique form of shifting cultivation that enables the growth of many crop varieties while ensuring that the climate and forest are not harmed It is early morning. Mongla Sisa and a group of farmers sing their way up a wild hillock of Bonda
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Adivasis demand the self-rule promised by the Constitution. The Adivasi Hakkula Porata Samiti (Tudum Debba) said they would begin their ‘Self Rule’ campaign in their villages from June 1 as announced earlier Talks between the Adivasi Hakkula Porata Samiti (Tudum Debba), representing the Gond and other Adivasis of the erstwhile Adilabad district, and the Telangana
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Tribal sub plans fail under Modi regime; Adivasis deprived of benefits in last five years Among the objectives of the Tribal Sub Plan has been to look after the basic needs of the tribals. The records show that the money was spent, but never to serve the needs of the targeted masses. Each of government
Telangana: 80 Koya tribal families evicted from their fields for plantation drive The forced displacement of tribals will not only cause loss of livelihood and social distress, it would also adversely impact ecosystem restoration, activists have warned Farmers of the Koya tribe of Satyaranarayanam of Ganugapadu in Bhadradri Khotagudem district of Telangana have complained that
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COVID-19 lockdown: An hour of crisis for India’s DNT communities The scarcity of essential facilities and lack of any rehabilitation measures might affect the lives of the DNTs even more than COVID-19 “Every state, every district, every lane, every village will be under lockdown,” said India’s prime minister and ordered all 1.3 billion people in
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Agro biodiversity Initiatives Open Tribal Women’s Horizons Kaliamma Nanjan, 70, sings as she cuts through her farm in Kerala’s Western Ghats. She deftly navigates the slopes of Attappady in Palakkad district with the gravity-defying dexterity of a mountain goat. Her silver-grey hair and bright saree vanish as she enters her mosaic-like 3.5-acre farm — her
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Tribals’ Sacred Groves Are Saving Endangered & Threatened Plants Species At least twice, the staid kalam tree (Mitragyna parvifolia), standing tall on a mound surrounded by farms in a nondescript village in the hilly areas of western Madhya Pradesh has granted his wishes, says local resident Devala Pal. He says once it pulled out a
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Chhattisgarh’s tribal women keep vigil on their forests A group of women sits huddled in a circle for a meeting, in a village in Lundra forest range of Chhattisgarh’s Surguja district, about 100 kilometres away from state capital Raipur. At the sarpanch Dhaneshwari Bai’s house, a resident of the village, has called an urgent meeting after
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