India community action

The aim of this page is to recognise, celebrate and encourage the self-empowerment of community agency networks (CANs) and community groups' activism for climate, environment and many other sustainability topics across India. It focuses on Networks, sustainability initiatives and community involvement. Separate pages cover Community resources India, Climate action India and Ecological restoration India
News
‘We can’t believe you would just trust us’: why social assistance shouldn’t come with strings attached, theconversation.com (Jan 02, 2025)
People already live alongside predators in India and Kenya – here’s how it could work in Scotland, theconversation.com (Dec 19, 2024)
Bamboo bonanza: how a village in India used its forest to go from poverty to prosperity, theguardian.com (Dec 17, 2024)
Networks and sustainability initiatives
- Vikalp Sangam, ‘Vikalp Sangam’ (VS), Hindi for ‘Alternatives Confluence’, is an evolving process that involves in its core functioning, over 80 movements and organisations in India. added 17:29, 16 January 2024 (UTC)
- Deccan Development Society
- Kalpavriksh, non-profit organisation working on environmental and social issues at local, national and global levels, primarily based in Pune with members in Delhi, Bangalore, Dehradun and elsewhere. added 15:05, 7 July 2020 (UTC)
- Govardhan Ecovillage (Maharastra, India), a place of natural harmony to release, refocus and recalibrate the self.
Video gallery
Community involvement
- IndiaUnheard, Community News Service, alternate newswire at grassroot level
see also Kerala
Communities online
Decentralising Digital, Working with rural communities in Karnataka, India, Decentralising Digital is an ongoing research project seeking to co-create new narratives for decentralised digital futures. added 12:20, 15 September 2021 (UTC)
Food activism
- Centre for Sustainable Agriculture, professional resource organization engaged in establishing models of sustainable agriculture working in partnership with NGOs and Community Based Organizations by scaling up the successes and engaging with the establishment for a policy change - Open Source Seeds
- csa-india.org
Sustainable livelihood
Development Alternatives Group - Chintan Environmental Research and Action Group
Campaigns
The Goenchi Mati Campaign, Fairness in Mining
About India
India, officially the Republic of India, is a country in South Asia. It is the seventh-largest country by area; the most populous country from June 2023 onwards; and since its independence in 1947, the world's most populous democracy. Bounded by the Indian Ocean on the south, the Arabian Sea on the southwest, and the Bay of Bengal on the southeast, it shares land borders with Pakistan to the west; China, Nepal, and Bhutan to the north; and Bangladesh and Myanmar to the east. In the Indian Ocean, India is near Sri Lanka and the Maldives; its Andaman and Nicobar Islands share a maritime border with Thailand, Myanmar, and Indonesia.
Near you
Mumbai / Andhra Pradesh - Kerala - Tamil Nadu
See also
- India news
- Community resources India
- Climate action India
- Ecological restoration India
- List of Ashden Award winners, includes winners in India 2002 - 2008
External links
- Wikipedia: Sulabh International - Bindeshwar Pathak - List of Ashden Award winners, includes winners in India 2009 and 2011
- Greenpeace India
- Rainwater Club, rainwater harvesting