People-led integrated watershed development program in Maharashtra

People-led integrated watershed development program in Maharashtra

Fr. Hermann Bacher SJ, born in 1924 in the beautiful Swiss alpine village of Muenster, spent 60 years working tirelessly to uplift marginalized rural communities in the Ahmednagar district. The recurrent droughts that led to poverty, hunger, scarcity, unemployment and distress migration, made a deep impact on him. Struck by the dire poverty he saw,…

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Ethnobotanical Study for reviving forest biodiversity to address climate change and distress migration in Nashik, MaharashtraJune 2023: Maharashtra Prabodhan Seva Mandal, Nashik

Context: Why ethnobotany study – because it combines elements of tribal people, their life, their economy, forests and rituals and interactions between them. It will investigate how tribal people manage their natural resources for various purposes such as food, medicine, rituals, handicrafts, and so on. The practical implications of the study are conservation for climate…