Nature's bounty and inheriting wisdom

Wayanad district is part of the Western Ghats region of India, a mountain range located along India's west coast. The Western Ghats is a biodiversity hotspot characterized by high species richness on the one hand, but high rates of species losses on the other.

The majority of people here are small to marginal scale farmers who maintain a variety of plants in their home gardens.

The biodiversity in this area has been conserved through the conscious selection made by farmers over many generations.

People have been practicing agro-forestry or similar land-use systems for thousands of years.

In this video, accompanied by the village chief, we visit Churuli Village, Wayanad District where people practice traditional agriculture such as home garden and live from the bounties of the forest, and find out from the expert of Kerala University of Agriculture on the changes in recent years.Amidst such changes, we also present some modern efforts taken by farmers in the surrounding area.

Read the article on this topic: http://ourworld.unu.edu/en/south-indian-agricultural-model-mimics-fragile-eco...

Category:

Education

Tags:

• Agroforesty
• Satoyama
• India
• Wayanad
• Kerala
• Agriculture
• Coffee farmer
• Satoyama initiative
• environment
• rural area
• homegarden
• biodiversity
• The Western Ghats
• traditional knowledge

[iplayslow]

THis is GOOD

[h23sirlude]

Indian men in usa very smart most of the doctors you see in the hospitals hare, ere indian. the guy we bought the car from and he only 22 year old and a pilot instructor.

[WoodlandRavah]

What I fand funny is how in this video they support and elaborte upon organic farming, while at the same time, the methods used by my western counterparts are actually less effective, GMO organisms leaving "Roundup" toxin in the whole environment, having less yield because of it, pestisides killing everything indescriminately, Herbicides killing plants that work as good crop rotation plants, ect...  Monsanto urges the East to use western tech, DONT It does'nt work right!

I just wanted to rant

[WoodlandRavah]

I love India, Never gonna visit, but something tells me hey have their s@#$ together...

Uhh UN, do you ever mention new species comming into being, this planet is'nt just death, where one species fails another shall or can take it's place... India can do what they want with their land, f@#$ the norther ghatt yellow bellied salamander, it's not a keystone species!!! UN leave national soveregnty to the nation in question!

[thomas22ek]

Way to go forward....