India

 A sustainable lifestyle in the mountains

Living with the Gaddis was an environmental lesson worth learning.

Publication Date: 
30/01/1993
Sudeep Mukhia
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Environment, Tribals, Gaddi, India, Pastoral Nomads
India

 CENDIT scores with film series

Catalysts for Change, a 13 part film series produced by the Centre for the Development of Instructional Technology, covers the gamut of problems that plague the country and its people

Publication Date: 
29/09/1992
Sevanti Ninan
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Health, Tribals, Economic Development, TV, India
India

 Tribals oppose uranium mining

Villagers, students, welfare organisations and opposition parties have come together and formed a council to protest the proposed mining and processing of uranium in Meghalaya

Publication Date: 
14/08/1992
Down to Earth
Tags:
Mining, Uranium, Tribals, Jaintia, Khasi, India, Meghalaya
Environment

 Fighting for a place under the sun

The NISGA: are fighting with the British Columbian government to be recognised as a community. They came to Rio to "tell the world about their problems"

Publication Date: 
14/07/1992
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Environment, Tropical Forests, Race Relations, Tribals, UN, Rio Summit
Forests

 Chopping down the future

About 90 per cent of Arunachal Pradesh"s revenue is generated by its forests. Yet these very forests are under heavy pressure, thanks to the lucrative and often illegal timber trade thriving under political patronage

Publication Date: 
30/05/1992
Anumita Roychowdhury
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Forests, Land Degradation, Shifting Cultivation, Deforestation, Wood, Trade, Tribals, Arunachal
India

 Tribal women edged out of forests

IS one born a woman or does one become one? Were women all through history burdened by inequitous norms and rules even during the period when surplus accumulation did not form the basis of

Publication Date: 
30/05/1992
Harsh Sethi
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Forests, Tribals, Women, India, Bihar
Forests

 Cold hearths

Energy problems have reached alarming proportions in the Tawang and Bomdilla areas. Since the last five years, Choizm, of Khamba hamlet of Lohu basti in Tawang, has been hiring help

Publication Date: 
30/05/1992
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Forests, Land Degradation, Shifting Cultivation, Deforestation, Wood, Trade, Tribals, Arunachal
Forests

 Who owns the land?

Arunachal Pradesh's tribals believe they have an absolute right over the state's land and forests. The state takes a different view of the matter. The entire area lying

Publication Date: 
30/05/1992
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Forests, Land Degradation, Shifting Cultivation, Deforestation, Wood, Trade, Tribals, Arunachal

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