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Himalayan communities live with recurring risks linked to landslides, floods, cloudbursts, heavy snowfall, forest fires, drought, and damaged mountain roads.…

For Van Gujjar families, education must move with seasonal life. Many pastoral households spend the warmer months in forest grazing areas and shift to winter…

Across India’s mountains and forests, pastoralist communities sustain livelihoods through seasonal movement, livestock care, and close knowledge of local…

Common land is shared space managed through community customs, local institutions, or public rules. It may include forests, grasslands, riverbanks, scrublands,…

Across the forests and mountain valleys of northern India, Van Gujjar women sustain families, livestock, and community traditions through changing seasons.…

For rural dairy cooperatives, milk quality is closely connected to household income, public health, and community confidence. A reliable testing system helps…

For Van Gujjar families and Himalayan village communities, forests are homes, workplaces, sources of fodder, and the foundation of pastoral life. Yet…

Tourism is changing the social, economic, and cultural landscape of the Himalayas. For Van Gujjar communities, whose identity is closely connected with buffalo…

For indigenous pastoralists, a government scheme becomes meaningful only when it reaches the forest settlement, seasonal route, or remote village where…

Across the Himalayan foothills, buffalo are more than livestock. They provide milk, manure, household income, and a dependable source of food for pastoral and…