Climate Change Adaptation: Indigenous Seeds

The year 2022 has been a year of records for rainfall in the State. On the 17th of June 2022, Mawsynram recorded 1003.6 mm of rainfall in a single day…

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Delving into Sasatgre, and the rapidly declining Sasat Tree

Sasatgre in West Garo Hills is an active participating partner village of NESFAS. The village of Sasatgre, erstwhile Rongdikgre, has an interesting story to its name. The word Sasat is…

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Resilience of the Khasi Food System in times of COVID-19 presented at  FAO webinar

Indigenous Peoples have never been vulnerable; in fact, they are the living proof of human resilience. For thousands of years, Indigenous Peoples have lived in harmony with nature, developing dynamic and adaptive knowledge, know-how, skills, and practices to observe the environment, anticipate and respond to shocks.

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Agroecology Learning Circles step up to defend traditional food systems

While the ‘No one shall be left behind’ project funded by the REC ran its race in the latter parts of 2021, the New Year has started with the same old goals for NESFAS albeit under a different project this time. Towards the end of the previous project, NESFAS entered into an agreement with MBMA

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