Tribal community and small farmers are the best hope to conserve biodiversity and ensure food security. Explain with suitable examples (200 Words)
Refer - The Hindu
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KEY POINTS
· Forest dwellers and farmers are the best hope to preserve biodiversity and ensure food security
· The Dongria Kondh tribe of Niyamgiri Hills are among the best conservationists in the world. Known for the spirited defence of their forested habitat against short-sighted industrialisation, they have through millennia evolved a lifestyle that is in perfect harmony with nature.
· These tribes, along with marginalised communities living on the fringes of forests and millions of smallholder farmers, are the best hope that India has to preserve biodiversity and ensure food security.
· At a time when nature faces the threat of another mass extinction of species, their importance cannot be emphasised enough because they offer us solutions to avert an imminent meltdown.
· Although biodiversity loss is a global problem, it can be countered only with local solutions. There’s no one-size-fits-all approach.
· Nothing can be achieved without the active participation of communities that live close to nature — farmers and forest dwellers.
· In their prognosis, UN agencies are unanimous that the best way to correct the present course is to heed the accumulated wisdom of indigenous peoples, fishers and farmers.
· For solutions one has to just look at the growing movement of zero-budget natural farming in Andhra Pradesh and Telangana, or the community-driven forest conservation initiatives in Odisha and the Northeast, to realise that there is hope for the natural ecosystem, if only we act on the advice of local communities.
· The natural farming movement in Andhra Pradesh may not be suitable for, say, Punjab. Fortunately, India’s farmers and tribes are nothing if not innovative and they do have local solutions.
· Loss of biodiversity and the threat of species extinction along with the alarming changes wrought by global warming are the primary concerns of our times.
· Our best bet for survival depends on how well we address these issues. We can do that only if we put people at the centre of our actions.
lakshmipriya 5 years
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Good attempt. Keep writing.
Krish 5 years
Kindly review it sir,Thank u
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Try to provide examples for small farmers, like ZBNF. Keep writing.
Aarthi 5 years
Hi,
Kindly Review. Thanks
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Try to provide some more examples like Bishnoi community, explain role of small farmers. Keep writing.
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