Ladakh Food Vikalp Sangam, Sept 2021
The Ladakh Vikalp Sangam on Food & Agriculture was co-organised by Ladakh Autonomous Hill Development Council, Agr. Dept of Ladakh UT, Local Futures Ladakh, Snow Leopard Conservancy – India Trust, Ladakh Art and Media Organisation, and Kalpavriksh Vikalp Sangam at Saboo village from 19th-20th September, 2021.
The over-arching focus of the sangam was to focus on how to implement Ladakh’s Mission Organic (target to make the region 100% organic by 2025), along with saving its food traditions, sustaining livelihoods, and protecting its fragile ecology. A detailed discussion was facilitated on imagining and re-defining the wellbeing of Ladakh (in the context of agro-tourism, food and pastoralism).
A number of follow-up actions have emerged post the two-day gathering that will be taken up by the Council and civil society groups. The Sangam saw active participation of farmers, NGOs, scientists, food entrepreneurs, govt officials and the Exec. Councillor (Agr). All of this was accompanied by displays of organic / local produce, and of course, delicious traditional lunches! And a trip to the farms of organic farmers in Saboo village.
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‘The Miracle on Sunderbaag Street’ won the Neev Book Award for the Emerging Reader category!
We are so pleased to share that one of our books, The Miracle on Sunderbaag Street, has just won the Neev Book Award for the Emerging Reader category!
This heartwarming and inspiring story was written by Nandita Da Cunha and beautifully illustrated by Priya Kuriyan .
Buy the book here: kalpavriksh.org/our-store OR write to us at [email protected]
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‘The Miracle on Sunderbaag Street’ won the Neev Book Award for the Emerging Reader category!
We are so pleased to share that one of our books, The Miracle on Sunderbaag Street, has just won the Neev Book Award for the Emerging Reader category!
This heartwarming and inspiring story was written by Nandita Da Cunha and beautifully illustrated by Priya Kuriyan .
Buy the book here: kalpavriksh.org/our-store OR write to us at [email protected]
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‘A New Home For Ajiri’ in The Hindu Young World
Our latest book for children: A New Home For Ajiri in the Hindu Young World
The book is about a moving story from Kachchh, written beautifully by Sandip Virmani and richly illustrated by Niloufer Wadia! The story of Ajiri, a chinkara fawn in Kachchh and her unusual friendships with a young boy, a young pastoralist girl and many camels!
To read the review: https://kalpavriksh.org/wp-content/uploads/2021/09/September-17-Bookworm-1.pdf
To place an order, please visit: kalpavriksh.org/our-store
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Palestine’s Beautiful Resistance: webinar
Alternatives in Pandemic Times: Resistance, Recovery and Re-Existence – a Webinar series
Palestine’s Beautiful Resistance: What it tells the world about building peace withinwith Abdelfattah Abusrour (Palestine)
Sunday 12th September – 13:30 (UTC/GMT): 7pm IST
Beautiful Resistance emerges from Palestine as a concept and philosophy that aims to inspire hope and promote life through performing and visual arts as non-armed ways for peaceful and creative self-expression. It helps to build peace within individuals, in turn to become peace-builders in their community and beyond.
More information and registration: https://globaltapestryofalternatives.org/webinars:2021:05
Direct access to the session: https://us02web.zoom.us/j/2598651679…
About the presenters
Abdelfattah AbusrourAbdelfattah Abusrour is founder and director of Alrowwad Cultural and Arts Society, established in 1998 in Aida refugee camp-Bethlehem. His concept and philosophy “Beautiful Resistance”, using performing and visual arts, culture and education, is a creative and peaceful expression in situations of oppression and trauma to provide possibilities to save lives and inspire hope and build peace within individuals to be peace builders in their communities and beyond. Abusrour is an author, actor, and theatre director, with a PhD in Biological and Medical Engineering from France.
Abusrour is the first Ashoka fellow-Social Entrepreneur in Palestine, and he is a Synergos – social innovator fellow. He was elected president of Palestinian Theatre League and many other organizations. He has done conferences and practical workshops in different countries using Beautiful Resistance, to empower people through building peace within themselves, and be active change-makers, and instead of waiting for miracles to happen, be able to act and provoke miracles to happen..
Yousef Habache (Moderator)Directeur Général, Comités pour le Développement et le Patrimoine (CDP).
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Climate Crisis and Western Himalaya
Western Himalaya Vikalp Sangam welcomes you to a talk and discussion on ‘Climate Crisis and Western Himalaya’, which probes into the current global climate crises caused by the paradigm of destructive development and starts a dialogue on what this means for the already bioregion of Western Himalaya.
The speaker is Mr. Soumya Dutta, co-convener of South Asian People’s Action on Climate Crisis (SAPACC), the trustee of Movement for Advancing Understanding on Sustainability And Mutuality (MAUSAM), the executive member of Friends of the Earth-India, the trustee/board member of GreenPeace-India Environment Trust, the convener of Bharat Jan Vigyan Jatha (BJVJ) and the founding members of India-Climate-Justice (ICJ).
Date: 8th September 2021
Time: 5:00 pm
Zoom link:https://us02web.zoom.us/j/88269893091
(No registration required)
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New Children’s Book is out – ‘A New Home For Ajiri’
Announcing our latest book for children: A New Home For Ajiri, a moving story from Kachchh, written beautifully by Sandip Virmani and richly illustrated by Niloufer Wadia! The story of Ajiri, a chinkara fawn in Kachchh and her unusual friendships with a young boy, a young pastoralist girl and many camels!
To place an order, please visit: kalpavriksh.org/our-store
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Latest Protected Area Update Newsletter, August 2021, No. 152
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Extraordinary Work of ‘Ordinary’ People, Beyond Pandemics and Lockdowns, Vol 1 in Multiple Languages
Extraordinary Work of ‘Ordinary’ People, Beyond Pandemics and Lockdowns, Vol 1 has been published in Multiple Languages
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Maharashtra Protected Area Update, July 2021, No: 6 (Marathi)
Protected Area Update (July 2021) about Maharashtra in Marathi, to read the entire Newsletter, please click here.
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