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- Music and dance | Performing arts | Puppetry
- Nature and wildlife | Bees and honey | Elephant | Tiger | Trees
- Seasons and festivals
- Storytelling | Success stories
- Tribal culture worldwide
- Tribal elders
- Video contents
Learn from M S Swaminathan – a world renowned scientist – how biological diversity contributes to public health, people’s livelihood and environmental security in addition to food security: his call on fellow citizens to use and share resources in a more sustainable and equitable manner; outlining the long journey from the 1992 Earth Summit to a commitment to foster inherited knowledge through India’s Biodiversity Act and Genome Saviour Award; an award intended to reward those who are “primary conservers” – guardians of biological diversity!
More about the work of his foundation which “aims to accelerate use of modern science and technology for agricultural and rural development to improve lives and livelihoods of communities.” – www.mssrf.org | Regarding the issues of food security raised above, and the nutritional value of indigenous grains, seeds and millets, read an in-depth report that concludes that “the tribal food basket has always been diverse and nutritious” >>
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The Johar Journal (द जोहार जर्नल ) is an online open-access, peer-reviewed, biannual journal on Adivasi, tribal and indigenous issues with particular focus on tribal literatures in translation.
Learn more: https://joharjournal.org >>
Up-to-date information
- use the Safe Google Search link (“Making the Internet a safer place to surf for children”).
- search select periodicals and type “tribal youth”, “trees tribal community”, “tribal school Odisha” (or any similar combination of keywords) to get a fair picture of the challenges faced by tribal communities in modern Indian society; and also to appreciate the new opportunities seized by India’s tribal youth.
Information about and by the Government of India (policies, reports etc.) & NGO’s
See also
- Adverse inclusion
- Denotified Tribes, Nomadic and Semi-Nomadic Tribes – Report and Recommendations (Technical Advisory Group)
- Fact checking
- Imprisonment & rehabilitation
- Search tips | Names of tribal communities, regions and states of India
- State wise population of Scheduled Tribes (ST) and their percentage to the total population in the respective states and to the total STs population
- “What are the Rights of Scheduled Tribes?– Government of India (National Commission for Scheduled Tribes, NCST)
- “What is the Forest Rights Act about?” – Campaign for Survival and Dignity
- “Who are Scheduled Tribes?” – Government of India (National Commission for Scheduled Tribes, NCST)
Information on projects handled by Unicef and United Nations
- Unicef (United Nations Children’s Fund)
- search posts on this website (all posts containing Unicef)
- search Unicef’s website unicef.org (keywords used “tribal India”; also use your own keywords in the Search window)
- Unesco (United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organisation)
- search posts on this website (all posts containing Unesco)
- search Unesco’s websites and in.one.un.org and whc.unesco.org (keywords used “tribal India”; also use your own keywords in the Search window)
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