Conserve/Resist Archives - Page 16 of 16

Aadi Kumbruka with various types of legumes, millets, oilseeds and corns grown on his farm.

India Water Portal

Tribals in Odisha humour changing skies with mixed platters

26th January 2016

Nauri grows 72 varieties of crop on his two-acre farm. “The benefit of mixed cropping is that even in extreme weather events, we get something out of the field. Some crops work well in drought, others in flood. Compare this with mono cropping which won’t even yield enough to eat in severe drought”, he explains….

A Guarani family mourns the death of a member

Survival international

Why a Brazil tribe has the world’s highest suicide rate

10th January 2016

According to a new report published by Survival International, the rate of self-inflicted deaths within the Guarani tribe is 34 times the Brazilian national average, and statistically the highest among any society anywhere on earth. Suicide rates among many other indigenous peoples such as Aboriginal Australians and Native Americans in Alaska also remain exceptionally high….

Raiot.in

New Book: Eat Dust – Mining and Greed in Goa, by Hartman de Souza

30th December 2015

If there is one book which speaks of all mining blighted societies, then it’s this one. The book by Hartman de Souza breaks all the boundaries of genres and gets its politics and economics right on. At once travelogue, investigative journalism and family memoir, Eat Dust maps the culture, topography and cultural diversity of Goa….

IB’s NGO Report: Not a time for intelligence or dissent

20th June 2014

Jay Mazoomdar writes: In its “classified” report titled ‘Impact of NGOs on Development’ sent to a host of government offices including the Prime Minister’s Office (PMO), on June 3, the Intelligence Bureau (IB) has named a long list of organizations and activists under its watch, from well-known environmental and anti-nuclear groups to little-known localized outfits….