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• No Pastoralist Woman Left Behind: 2026

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  • Published On: May 22, 2025

  • Newsletter Logo IYRP Dispatch 502 subscribers Subscribed No Pastoralist Woman Left Behind: 2026 Must Deliver on Rights, Resources, and Recognition May 19, 2025 By Maria Fernandez-Gimenez and Nitya Ghotge The United Nations has designated 2026 as the International Year of Rangelands and Pastoralists (#IYRP2026) and the International Year of the Woman Farmer (#IYWF2026). This provides … Continue reading “No Pastoralist Woman Left Behind: 2026”

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• TOWARDS GENDER EQUITY in AGRICULTURE: PERSISTING CONCERNS and CHALLENGES

  • By: Sumi Krishna (President, Anthra)
  • Published On: November 26, 2024

  • Fifty years ago, the United Nations Commission on the Status of Women called for the organisation of the first World Conference on Women which was held in Mexico City in 1975, coinciding with the first International Year for Women. The global plan for action set in Mexico City was taken forward at every subsequent Conference … Continue reading “TOWARDS GENDER EQUITY in AGRICULTURE: PERSISTING CONCERNS and CHALLENGES”

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• Dal Bhaat and the French Baby cookbook

  • By: Kritika Suratkal
  • Published On: July 1, 2021

  • What is the connection between dal-bhaat and a French Baby Cookbook? A few years back, when I was attempting to learn French, my mother gifted me a book called Baby Cook Book written by David Rathgeber. As a struggling student of French, it was a fun lexicon of sorts of food and culinary terms. As … Continue reading “Dal Bhaat and the French Baby cookbook”

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• A Night Under the Stars

  • By: Ashwini Labde
  • Published On: May 1, 2021

  • A Night Under the Stars  Living life like a nomad and actually being a nomad are two different things. I belong to one of the nomadic pastoralist communities of India – I am a Dhangar but I was born, raised and educated in a  city. My immediate family had stopped herding animals a while ago  … Continue reading “A Night Under the Stars”

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• Balu mamas sheep

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  • Published On: May 7, 2019

  • Early morning and we are back on the road. We are eight of us, four  of us from the team in the office and four  interns of whom  two are from India , one from France and Lora from the US . This time we are off to visit Balu mamas flock of special sheep … Continue reading “Balu mamas sheep”

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• Why the Krishna Gollas have a 100 sheep

  • By: Pritha Mandothan
  • Published On: November 14, 2018

  • “Long long ago in a faraway land ….in some part of  the Deccan  there lived  a priest of the Kuruba community. One day he took his sheep  grazing  wearing a new pair of  beautiful golden footwear. He was merry and cheerful   since  he alone possessed footwear made of gold. He stopped after reaching a … Continue reading “Why the Krishna Gollas have a 100 sheep”

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• Walk with the Ducks

  • By: Ruchita Khurana
  • Published On: March 8, 2018

  • Tucked away amidst India’s rice fields are a species of birds which provide value and service to the fields and farmers but remain hidden from view .  On a project supported by Anthra, Ruchita   spent a few months meeting duck farmers in Tamil Nadu to find out more about duck rearing . This is … Continue reading “Walk with the Ducks”

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• and the school carries on ……

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  • Published On: July 19, 2017
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• Morning Tea with the Shepherds

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  • Published On: June 7, 2017

  • We are  on the road at 6:30 am to meet our shepherd friends who are migrating back to their home village . This group passes close to Pune and we had promised to meet them on their journey . The rains are yet to come although it is grey and overcast . Vithal Padhalkar a … Continue reading “Morning Tea with the Shepherds”

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• Learning on the move

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  • Published On: May 29, 2017

  • While school and learning often conjure up images of heavy school bags and hours in dreary classrooms there is a lot of learning which happens outside of schools. Our work with nomadic shepherds and the innovative “nomad edu kit” shows that given a chance people will learn whatever the circumstances . All they need is … Continue reading “Learning on the move”

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