The pitfalls of protection

To save their forests from degradation, villagers will have to deal tactfully with the host of conflicts that sprout out of the field of good …

Saving to survive

Impending doom has prompted villagers in Bihar and Orissa to protect their forests from natural calamities. And humans

A tradition that got washed away

For more than a century, the people of Motepur used to build an earthen dam on the Punpun river every two years. Today, wage labour has replaced …

Shame puts the cork back in liquor bottles

Campaigns by women have been successful in curbing alcoholism among their menfolk in Manipur and Andhra Pradesh, but similar efforts have failed …

Helping women irks men in Haryana district

A non-govemmental organisation attempting to help women in Haryana's and Rewari district is hampered by caste factors and male chauvinism.

Gandhian scheme provides rural health care

A seWhelp programme provides the poorest villagers in the area surrounding Mahoin Gandhi's Sevagrom ashrom with access to quality medical care.

Tribals solve problems through self - reliance

The Budakattu Krishikara Sangha, with its emphasis on people-oriented strategies, has improved tremendously the lot of the tribals in and around …

A school with an ecological curriculum

For 45 years, a school in Kausani has been inculcating ecological consciousness in hill women

From reservations to recognition

Pushed onto reservations and almost forgotten, the indigenous people of the world have finally got onto the international environmental agenda.…

Taking the magic out of miracles

Promoting a more rationalist attitude to life at a mass level, that's what the Jan Vigyan Jatha sets out to do

Value addition

A Pune teacher develops a calculator made out of cardboard for as little as Rs 15, which can even handle mindbending logarithms.

Saved from the axe

Spirited village women in Himachal Pradesh save a clump of deodar trees from being chopped by mercenary woodcutters.

Pouring prosperity

The micro-watershed development project in Maharashtra has put a stop to what was earlier an annual ritual of deserting the drought-prone …

Farewell to fertilisers

The Netherlands' position as an agricultural superpower stands threatened... unless it shifts to eco-friendlier organic cultivation

The answers within

Swadhyay, which literally means study of the self, is a movement that has introduced realistic social change in India's rural communities

Saving the earth

Techniques developed by villagers in Himachal Pradesh can be integrated into plans to reclaim rocky wasteland in the hills

Saving Krishna's forests

This is the story of Friends of Vrindavan, a unique experiment in conservation, which brings to attention the important role that India's …

Green drive

From planting trees in his arid homeland to trapping water, this former textile dealer shows the way

Hoarding the rain

Check dams have marked a watershed in the chronically parched village of Hivare in Maharashtra

Planting trees instead of feeding brahmins

Even death ceremonies in these 1,200 villages in orissa's Puri district have been transformed

Home where the blackbuck roam

The religion of the Bishnoi community in Punjab has protected the blackbuck

Major battle for minor stuff

Trilbals dependent on the jungle's gifts fight it out in Bilaspur district

Bihar's rural Nightingales

Healthcare receives a boost in starkly poor villages

Planting trouble

Kids in aid of bilbies