land rights

Co-founder of the Dalit Adivasi Manch and a key figure in the Chhattisgarh Mukti Morcha, Rajim Ketwas reflects on her journey as a woman activist in the labour movement and where it stands today.

Led by Vinoba Bhave, Gramdan, or collective land ownership by villages, emerged as a major social movement in the 1950s and ‘60s. While more than 3,000 gramdani villages exist even today, these communities face complex challenges.

In Ri Bhoi, a village headman recounts how his community mobilised and fundraised to buy back land around their catchment areas, reclaiming access to water.

From livelihoods to ecosystems, commons sustain much more than we see. Here's what economic valuations can do for their protection.

Amid shifting cultivation and migration, Kuki-Zo families in Manipur are finding ways to secure access to the land they have inhabited for generations.

For Agariya women, salt farming in Gujarat's Little Rann of Kachchh means spending months without adequate water, food, and healthcare.

One of the key aims of the Forest Rights Act has been to decentralise forest governance by conferring powers on the gram sabha. DAJGUA, a new umbrella scheme for forest-dwelling communities in India, may upend this.

In just 10 minutes, learn how India’s commons power its people, ecology, and economy—through examples, their history, and challenges.

Three perspectives, one conversation. A developer, an investor, and a development professional unpack what it would take to make renewable energy truly people-centric.

The construction of Dimbhe Dam had upended the lives of Pune’s Adivasi communities. Here's how they transformed dispossession into development.