With agriculture being the main source of income, the village relied heavily on water for their crops and daily needs. However, due to the village being located on a hilltop, while the water sources were at the bottom, the villagers faced a severe water...
Gambegre Village is one of 400 villages located in critically degraded landscapes of the state, that came forward to participate in the World Bank-funded Community-Led Landscape Management Project (CLLMP) in 2019. A survey by the North Eastern Space Application Centre...
Meghalaya is one of the few existing matrilineal societies in the world and it is expected that women would have more decision making roles, however, the issue of authority and power is still a widely debated topic. The matrilineal system followed by the three main...
COMMON LANDSCAPE PROBLEMS IN CLLMP AREAS Meghalaya is a state with almost 70 per cent of geographical area under forest cover but what is not taken into account is how 40 per cent of this forest cover has degraded into open forests and shrubs. There are many reasons...
A key factor during the initial phase of the CLLMP is creating awareness. This is crucial and this creates the foundation for the implementation of the project. INRM component is given special importance during awareness programmes and there is stress put on...
Conservation and sustainable use of natural resources is a widely talked about topic and with generations of mismanagement of these resources in the state, this has resulted in an alarming depletion of natural resources which has greatly affected communities all over...
