First food: business of taste
Good Food is First Food. It is not junk food. It is the food that connects nature and nutrition with livelihoods. This food is good for our health; it comes from the rich biodiversity of our regions; it
Traditional Knowledge
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The commons, communities and climate change
Rural common property resources represent the historically evolved institutional arrangements made by communities in dry regions (in the present case) to guard against the vulnerabilities and risks created
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Ochrophora montana (Distant): a precious dietary supplement during famine in northeastern Himalaya
Cinnamon bug or seed bug, Ochrophora (= Udonga) montana (Distant) (Hemiptera: Pentatomidae) is a serious pest of bamboo, feeds on developing seeds and is able to destroy all available seeds during massive
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Patalbhuvneshwar: a new sacred grove from Kumaon Himalaya
<p>Sacred groves are traditionally managed forest patches of palaeo-endemics, which are conserved due to religious beliefs and represent climax vegetation. Sometimes these groves have higher richness and
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Koraput misses Green Revolution and doesn't regret it
A decade ago, Chandra Pradhani, a Paraja tribal of Nuaguda village in Kundra block of Odisha's Koraput district, would migrate to neighbouring Andhra Pradesh to earn a living as a brick kiln worker. He
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Redefining water security through social reproduction: Lessons learned from Rajasthan’s ‘Ocean of Sand'
One of the most urgent challenges facing the world today is ensuring local water security under rapid climate variability and change. This is of particular importance in a country like India, where over
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A human-rights approach to fisheries
The 'green economy' that Rio+20 hopes to focus on cannot afford to ignore a human-rights approach to sustainable fisheries.
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Green, blue and true
The following is the input of ICSF to the Compilation Document of the United Nations Conference on Sustainable Development (Rio+20).
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The people who spear pollock
The Passamaquoddy tribe in eastern Maine, US, are indigenous fishers who are trying to exercise sovereign rights to resources.
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Pollinators – key for agro biodiversity conservation
Initiatives and innovations promoted by Keystone Foundation have helped promote bee keeping amongst farmers and tribal communities around the Nilgiri Biosphere Reserve. The impacts are visible in terms
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Kathmandu valley losing its ancient water wisdom
Restoring traditional water structures hold key to making the region water secure. Read More - http://www.downtoearth.org.in/content/kathmandu-valley-losing-its-ancient-water-wisdom