rural India

A biodiversity conservationist in Murlen village reflects on the challenge of convincing his community to let go of traditions that endanger the environment.

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.

India's commons are often seized from the people who nurture them. Here's how communities are asserting their right to govern these lands.

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.

Games can be an important tool for immersive learning, and can become spaces to reflect and learn. Here’s how.

In the dwindling economy of rural Kashmir, coppersmithing is seeing a revival as an alternative source of livelihood for the youth. But will it last?

Waste management in the Indian Himalayan Region faces steep financial and logistical hurdles. Sustainable solutions need viable funding and long-term commitment.

Discover how a farmer in Meghalaya is blending traditional wisdom and modern methods in beekeeping to harvest honey, teach youth, and create livelihoods.

For marginalised and landless groups such as the Musahar community, the use of machines in agriculture has meant a loss of livelihoods.

In Ganjam, Odisha, women fish workers face exclusion from planning processes even as climate change and erosion reshape their lives.