Kalaboti Hembrom, a widow and single mother from Dhulkidanga, Jhargram used to depend on mono-cropped rainfed farming and collection of NTFPs like Mahua (Madhuca longifolia) for their sustenance and livelihood generation. Kalaboti belongs to the scheduled tribe community. Kalabati is facing the burnt of climate change and her livelihood is getting badly affected through erratic […]
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Application of Blended Digital Learning for Adaptation of Appropriate Technologies for Climate Resilient Livelihood Development
Kalaboti Hembrom, a widow and single mother from Dhulkidanga, Jhargram used to depend on mono-cropped rainfed farming and collection of NTFPs like Mahua (Madhuca longifolia) for their sustenance and livelihood generation. Kalaboti belongs to the scheduled tribe community. Kalabati is facing the brunt of climate change and her livelihood is getting badly affected through erratic […]
The story of Upendra Bhukta’s practice of organic farming in the vacant land of Nedam Village in Odisha State
Upendra Bhukta* from Lodha Community of Nedam village in Odisha has set an example to show how he changed the land-use practice and had helped in fulfilling the daily need of nutritious vegetables for his family. It is more surprising to see that Upendra Bhukta has learnt organic farming. This also enhances the scope of his earning […]
Organic Nutrition garden showing path to a tribal mother to shape a better future for her child– Story of Pameli Bai Baiga
Pameli Baiga, a 42 years old PVTG woman, mother of a child, belongs from Ghogra village of Chhattisgarh state, where poor literacy rates, slow pace of development, high levels of malnutrition driven by communicable disease, high dependency on land and forest produce are some of the major issues. She took digital training from IBRAD and […]
Becoming a Change Agent for promotion and adaptation of climate-resilient livelihood practices among the smallholder farmers: A Story of Ramu Ram*
It is surprising to find out how Ramu Ram, a 45 years old man belonging to the Baiga community, one of the Particularly Vulnerable Tribal Groups (PVTG) of Ghoghra Village of Chhattisgarh could take a lead in promotion and adaptation of climate resilient livelihood practices among the small holder PVTG farmers. After being trained digitally […]
Organic Kitchen Garden Providing Nutritious Food to the Nomadic Tribal Population: A Story of Sunita Birhor
Sunita Birhor, a twenty years old woman from a pre agrarian society of Demotand village of Jhakhand starts cultivation in her kitchen garden for the first time. She has received the training on establishment of Organic Nutrition Garden, production of organic inputs from IBRAD. She has started a nutrition garden and started cultivating different types […]
Organic Nutrition Garden providing an opportunity to gain the confidence of a mother of five children: The story of Mamata Birhor
It is surprising to find out how Mamata Birhor, a 35 years old woman from Birhor community of Dhengua Village of Jharkhand could change the land use practicing that had helped in fulfill the daily need of nutritious vegetables for her family. It is more interesting to witness how even during the COVID 19 pandemic […]
Changing the WaterWays -Changing the Lives
Water Crisis at the Tribal Terrain of hilly village have multiple negative consequence right from food security to health and well-being. The Baiga tribes of Ghoghra- Bhurbhuspani have demonstrated their skills and art of implementation of the Boulder Check Dam construction at the KAUA NAL at the fringe of the village Bhurbhuspani by Bhagatu Ram, […]
Re-gaining Rare Indigenous Seeds
One of the most crucial challenges of the “Food Security- Safe Food” have been availability of healthy soil, water and indigenous seeds and organic manure . The Organic farming by the Tribal community with indigenous seeds are found to be the most appropriate answer for food security. But because of corporate marketing of the hybrid seeds the indigenous seeds […]
An Empowered Woman Bringing Innovative Farming Solutions: The story of Laxmi Hembram
Small land holding, dependence on rainfed farming, lack of access to new skills and technologies, increasing production costs all put the forest fringe tribal farmers at an edge. The women who have to assume the role of caregivers due to the cultural construct face the challenges daily to feed their family with nutritious food and […]