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The Think Wildlife PodcastEpisodes 32: Farmers for Forests, with Krutika Ravishankar, Co-FounderOne of the leading causes of biodiversity loss is habitat degradation. In terrestrial landscapes, this is primarily through rampant deforestation. Unfortunately, the direct impacts of deforestation and land degradation extend beyond the realms of biodiversity and climate change. Rural and tribal communities face the brunt of the socioeconomic consequences of deforestation. This ranges from increased human-wildlife conflict, increased soil erosion and hence flooding, poorer agricultural yield, loss of livelihoods, and increased food insecurity.However, tribal and rural communities can become the torchbearers for afforestation. Ecosystem restoration can not only help bolster biodiversity and mitigate the climate crisis...2024-01-0719 min
Think Wildlife FoundationEpisodes 32: Farmers for Forests, with Krutika Ravishankar, Co-FounderOne of the leading causes of biodiversity loss is habitat degradation. In terrestrial landscapes, this is primarily through rampant deforestation. Unfortunately, the direct impacts of deforestation and land degradation extend beyond the realms of biodiversity and climate change. Rural and tribal communities face the brunt of the socioeconomic consequences of deforestation. This ranges from increased human-wildlife conflict, increased soil erosion and hence flooding, poorer agricultural yield, loss of livelihoods, and increased food insecurity.
However, tribal and rural communities can become the torchbearers for afforestation. Ecosystem restoration can not only help bolster biodiversity and mitigate the climate crisis...2024-01-0700 minThink Wildlife FoundationEpisodes 32: Farmers for Forests, with Krutika Ravishankar, Co-FounderOne of the leading causes of biodiversity loss is habitat degradation. In terrestrial landscapes, this is primarily through rampant deforestation. Unfortunately, the direct impacts of deforestation and land degradation extend beyond the realms of biodiversity and climate change. Rural and tribal communities face the brunt of the socioeconomic consequences of deforestation. This ranges from increased human-wildlife conflict, increased soil erosion and hence flooding, poorer agricultural yield, loss of livelihoods, and increased food insecurity.
However, tribal and rural communities can become the torchbearers for afforestation. Ecosystem restoration can not only help bolster biodiversity and mitigate the climate crisis...2024-01-0700 min
Land of a BillionHow Climate Change Can be Fought With Secure Property RightsOver the last few years, leaders of several countries across the world have realised the organic link between land, property rights, and climate change. Some of them have even started implementing innovative models and programmes around this.
In our final episode of Season 2, we speak with Rachel McMonagle, climate justice and land rights advocate working with Landesa and Krutika Ravishankar – the co-founder of Farmers for Forests, to understand the connection between property, land rights, and climate change. We talk about various climate adaptation strategies with relation to land rights and also analyse the Glasgow Declaration and its outcomes.2022-02-0434 min
Land of a BillionWhy Do Women Farmers Still Lack Access to Agricultural Land Ownership?The 2011 census suggests that four out of five women workers in rural India work in agriculture as owner cultivators or as wage workers.
However, women farmers continue to be disadvantaged when it comes to access to agricultural land ownership, compared to men. This, often, further denies them their rightful recognition as farmers which in turn, inhibits them from accessing the welfare benefits that are entitled to farmers.
Lack of reliable data and poor policy framework are some of the key factors contributing to the disempowerment of women farmers.
In this episode of Land of a B...2022-01-2138 min