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Contingent on World Bank aid to be given to poorer countries in the wake of coronavirus lockdowns, agrifood conglomerates will aim to further expand their influence. These firms have been integral to the consolidation of a global food regime that has emerged in recent decades based on chemical- and proprietary-input-dependent agriculture which incurs massive externalised […]
Introduction The Himalayas are not just the loftiest and longest mountain range in the world; they are a treasure of medicinal plants. The ranges of the Himalayan system are grouped into two major divisions, the Cis-Himalayan and the Trans-Himalayan. The Cis-Himalayan ranges lie south of the Great Himalayan ranges. The Trans-Himalayan ranges lie to the north of the Great Himalayas. In the Western Himalaya, drastic climatic conditions have necessitated the use of indigenous traditional medical system. In Kashmir there has been a good impact of Unani system of traditional medicine. Lawrence (19...
Ko tā te Tū Tauā he tiaki, ko tā te tangata he whai. The house of knowledge grows intellect, the house of arts and crafts brings unity, the house of song and dance gives hope and aspiration, the house of weaponry brings courage and strength, the purpose for mankind is to succeed The Mātauranga Māori Te Awe Kōtuku programme provides $20 million over two years to fund at least 18 diverse initiatives which will support iwi, hapū, whānau and Māori communities to safeguard at-risk mātauranga from the ongoing threat of COVID-19. The pandemic has brought into sharp focus significant exist...
Language, Landscape and Our World of Many Worlds 27/12/2020 A view of Svalbard from Earth orbit. Photo: Google Earth. “In our faith there is no heaven or hell,” spoke Mayalmit Lepcha in the Janata Parliament – an Indian people’s parliament which happened online this year, on account of COVID-19. Her network is spotty. She’s in the mountains. I listen hard and try to piece together what she’s saying. Mayalmit is from the Lepcha tribe in North Sikkim, and she is among the people on the ground fighting the Teesta dam project in her state. In the virtual parliament she expl...
Posted: Dec 04, 2020 3:28 PM CT | Last Updated: December 16, 2020 Grace Morgan studies a beaver dam. Her book Beaver, Bison, Horse: The Traditional Knowledge and Ecology of the Northern Great Plains, released posthumously, contains more than three decades of research.(Submitted by Brian Morgan) A new book that looks at the traditional knowledge of Indigenous people on the prairies is being hailed as an important scholarly work, but it also has a fascinating back story. Beaver, Bison, Horse: The Traditional Knowledge and Ecology of the Northern Great Plains was written by Grace Morgan. It was...