Endosulfan Poisoning and the Struggle of the community in Kasaragod to regain life and the living land – A Presentation at the COP3 of Rotterdam Convention 2008.
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Environment Chargesheet – A compilation of environmental violations and destructive activities facilitated / implemented by the Kerala government from 2011 – 2016, which undermined all previous legal and social efforts to protect Environment in Kerala.
The report is compiled by Kerala Paristhithi Aikya Vedhi ( a coalition of Environmental organisations, concerned individuals and scientists across Kerala)
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report of the Down to Earth childrens camp conducted by Thanal during the summer of 2015
Agroecology and right to food – Report submitted by the Special Rapporteur on the right to food, Olivier De Schutter
Thanal is credited for its Agriculture and Food Sovereignty program and its projects like organic bazaar and save our rice campaign, for promoting the link between producers and consumers.
Concept note prepare by Pan-India and Thanal, on how a Carbon Neutral Communities Resource Centre can be formed
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Alangudi Perumal Method
From just about 600 to 1200 grams of Paddy seeds you can get 9880 kg Paddy in 1 ha
ALANGUDI PERUMAL METHOD OF RICE TRANSPLANTATION
This was developed by Alangudi Perumal – a small farmer from Nagapattinam, Tamil Nadu accidentally when his rice crop was destroyed due to floods in 1999. In this method only 250 (fine)-500 (bold) grams of Paddy Seeds are required for 1 Acre of land. The nursery is made in 3 decimal of land for 1 acre; transplantation in 15 to 20 days at 50 x 50 cm. The plants show 80 tillers in 45 days & 60-70 productive tillers in 60 to 70 days on an average to a high of 120 tillers. There are no lodging and yields of 9.88 MT/ha are common with native varieties under organic inputs.…
The Save our Rice Campaign has been promoting this method. See this presentation from Sriram R from Kathiramanglam (TN)….who is also a practitioner of the method and an active associate of the Campaign.
For more details : Sriram – +919486718853 ; Alankudi Perumal – +919486835547
(Thanks to Soumik Banerjee for the input note)
The sui generis model for TK protection is separated into 9 chapters. The salient features of the draft bill, which identifies rights and duties of traditional communities and accessor, and also suggests the formation of a Traditional Knowledge Authority, includes:
1) Definition of TK, abuse, access, accessor, benefit, informed consent, traditional community etc.
2) Creation and maintenance of Traditional Knowledge register.
3) Identification of the sources from where informed consent has to be gained to access TK.
4) Indicative list of accessors who are required to obtain prior consent.
5) Duties and obligations of the central Govt, State govts and TK Authority to ensure prevention of misuse of TK.
6) Preparation of national policy, strategy and action plan by the TK Authority every 5 years, which ensures the protection, continuation of use and practice of TK and ensures sustainability of the resources including human resource on which TK is dependent.
7) Duty of TK Authority to prevent biopiracy and other misuse of TK and to take preventive/punitive actions to safeguard the same.
8) TK Authority to be assigned with additional responsibility to ensure that the due environmental and social impact assessment be done before granting access to any traditional knowledge.
9) TK Authority to ensure that the use of traditional knowledge is not against any public order or morality.
10) TK Authority to educate and increase awareness in the communities to ensure just and fair negotiations.
11) TK Authority to assigned powers to notify certain traditional knowledge as endangered or verge of extinction or likely to become extinct, and also the power to restrict access to such traditional knowledge.
12) Appellate mechanism to appeal against the decision of TK Authority. The orders issued by Appellate Mechanism shall be applicable at the Supreme Court of India.
Proceedings and Recommendations of two State level workshops held in Thiruvananthapuram, organized by Thanal, CANSA, PHIA, UNICEF, DA, in association with Kerala Suchitwa Mission and Haritha Keralam Mission.
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WASH-Draft Training Module
A reading material on WASH and Climate Change – Strategic Framework for Way Forward. This training material have been prepared by Mr. Pradeep Bharwad for a training on Women and Child Centric planning for climate resilient kerala.
He can be contacted at [email protected]