Baiga

A case study from Baigachak of Chhattisgarh

A case study from Baigachak of Chhattisgarh by Ramesh Sharma, Ekta Parishad at CSE Climate change adaptation workshop: Towards Climate Resilient Communities in South Asia: Emerging Policies and Practices (New Delhi, December 13 - 14, 2012).

A case study from Baigachak of Chhattisgarh

A case study from Baigachak of Chhattisgarh by Ramesh Sharma, Ekta Parishad at CSE Climate change adaptation workshop: Towards Climate Resilient Communities in South Asia: Emerging Policies and Practices (New Delhi, December 13 - 14, 2012).

Role models

Can MFP help people break the cycle of poverty in the Naxal–affected districts? There are instances that offer hope. Subelal Markam, a Baiga tribal of Korka village in Madhya Pradesh used to get just Rs 1.5 to Rs 2 per bamboo piece from middlemen. In 2007, the forest department helped …

Eating Disorder

SHRIYA MOHAN uncovers shocking tales of tribals battling hunger and starvation in the heartlands of Madhya Pradesh TODAY MAUSAM will not eat. There is just enough wheat flour left for three rotis but she stretches the dough thin to make four. She grinds a chutney of raw green chillies with …

Hunger strikes forest’s exiles

For Samarin seeing a tiger is as casual as her monthly sightings of the ration store supplier. “They come sometimes but as long as we mind our own business, they don’t do any harm,” she says, working in her small farm in the middle of the forest, her baby slung …

Lit by biofuel

A village of 105 lit up households. But how to make renewable energy sustainable? A 30-km drive from Chhattisgarh

Socio-economic and livelihood pattern of ethnic group Baiga in Achanakmar Sal Reserve Forest in Bilaspur Chhattisgarh

The paper presents studies on socio-economic and livelihood pattern of Baiga tribe found in sal forests of Bilaspur district in Chhattisgarh state. The study was conducted in Achanakmar which has predominance of sal forest with large number of under shrubs and shrubs.

Loss or gain

One of the sites ITC is looking at for its pulp and paper unit is in Mandla district, Madhya Pradesh. But according to Naresh Biswas of Nai Duniya, an organisation working with the Baiga tribals in Mandla, "There is hardly any

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