Water testing skill training and community water monitoring, Mamar,West Singbhum,Jharkhand
Jyoti Patale During the Agroecology workshop held in Bankuda, West Bengal, from June 10th to 12th 2024 Soumik Banerjee (Consultant, Eastern India Initiative) conducted a session on monitoring water sources for a group of Community Resource Persons (CRPs). These CRPs were provided with water testing kits and trained on using various instruments and maintaining a […]
Seed Distribution at Jamkundiya, West Singhbhum, Jharkhand
Jyoti Patale In Jamkundiya village, Inda Jamuda and Seeta, Community Resource Persons (Eastern India), led a meeting focused on planning for this year’s agricultural season and distributing seeds for kitchen nutritional gardens in the community backyards. The session began with a review of the previous year’s efforts, where Inda had distributed various traditional seed varieties […]
Community Seed Bank and Multilayer Farming in Roam village, Musabani Block, East Singhbhum District, Jharkhand
Rohan Mukerjee On the 26th of June 2024 accompanied by Jagabandhu Sanda (Consultant) and Baby Patar (Community Resource Person) I visited the village Roam located in Musabani Block, East Singhbhum District, Jharkhand. Roam in Murgaghutu Panchayat is made up of 7 hamlets with 339 households of the Santal, Ho, Bhumij and Kurmi communities. We first […]
Community Seed Bank in Bhadua village, Gohla Pachayat, Musabani Block, East Singhbhum District, Jharkhand
Kapra Mahali is a CRP from Musabani Block, East Singhbhum District, Jharkhand who joined the Eastern India initiative as a People and Nature Fund (PNF) fellow in 2023 and is now working on the Eastern India project. She works with the Santal, Ho, Machua, Sabar, Mahali and OBC communities in 6 villages of Gohla and […]
Workshop on Ecological Farming Practices and Training and Planning Meeting of Keystone Foundation’s Eastern India Initiative at Ichharia and Panchal, Bankura District, West Bengal
Since its inception in 2022 Keystone Foundation’s Eastern India Initiative has been steadily expanding and currently projects are being carried out across 5 districts of Jharkhand, and 2 districts each in West Bengal and Odisha. On the 10th, 11th and 12th of June the staff, partners and Community Resource Persons (CRPs) of this initiative came […]
Brown Rice Community Enterprise in Patkita village, Forest Block Panchayat, Musabani Block, East Singhbhum District, Jharkhand
Since 2020 CPR Baby Patar has been working in Patkita village on issues of Food Sovereignty, Traditional Food Systems and Agriculture, Natural Faming, Climate Change, Wild Foods, Sustainable livelihoods and women’s empowerment. The women of Patkita have been cultivating traditional brown rice variety Bali Bhojna, processing the rice in a village rice mill and selling […]
Training on Mixed Cropping and Natural Farming Practices and Field Visit to Sabar Villages of Kashidih and Makarkendi in Purulia District, West Bengal
Dhananjoy Mandi On the 30th of May 2024 technical expert Bhairab Saini visited the Sabar villages of Kashidih and Makarkendi in Manbazar I Block of Purulia District, Jharkhand. Bhairab is a farmer himself and he and his team have been working with and promoting organic agriculture and ecological farming practices for over 20 years. They […]
Field visits to Kheria Sabar villages of Purulia District, West Bengal
Rohan Mukerjee Alongside Paschim Banga Kheria Sabar Kalyan Samiti (PBKSKS) Keystone Foundation has been working with the Kheria Sabar community in Purulia district of West Bengal since 2020. Our work in the region commenced through the Using Diversity (UD) project and subsequently Community Resource Persons (CRPs) in different blocks of the district have been supported […]
Agriculture and Traditional Food Mela – Aksi, Mahuadanr Block, Latehar District, Jharkhand
Manu Deo, Cordula Kujur, Jagabandhu Sanda and Rohan Mukerjee On the 29th of December the residents of the hamlets Aksi and Chetma in Mahuadanr Block, Latehar District, Jharkhand came together to celebrate their rich agricultural heritage and food traditions. Community Resource Persons Sandeep Lakra from Aksi and Sanjita Lakra from Chetma were responsible for organizing […]
Report on Springshed Management Training by Chirag, Uttarakhand
Soumik Banerjee A 4-day residential Training on basic aspects of Hydrogeology and Springsheds was held at Chirag Campus and Simayal village in Nainital District of Uttarakhand. The training was attended by Bhiarab Saini and Soumik Banerjee from 20-23rd December 2023. The training program covered different aspects of Hydrogeology namely- The training involved both classroom and […]
