May 4, 2017
Choosing young women weavers, who show promise and who have a thirst for knowledge, as Bunker Sakhis, is an attempt to recognize the potential of women to flourish in business
May 3, 2017
Fulfilling the need for justice-imparting systems in a strongly patriarchal society, Nari Adalats, despite facing challenges during the evolutionary phase of this Alternative Dispute Resolution system, are helping to reduce the distress of village women
May 2, 2017
Coming face to face with rampant corruption in the implementation of the provisions of MGNREGA, the women of Jivan Marshal Mahila Sangh refuse to buckle down to the local oppressors and an apathetic bureaucracy
April 16, 2017
The analysis presented in this article is based on the information provided by Sachin Pathania in his documentation of the prosperity brought about in an impoverished family in southern Bihar through the introduction of tasar rearing activity in the village.
April 14, 2017
“Sooner or later, those who win are those who think they can.” Richard Bach
April 13, 2017
Tasar Development Foundation (TDF) was registered on November 5, 2013, in the National Capital Territory of Delhi, under Section 25 of the Companies Act 1956 (No. 1 of 1956) without any capital
April 6, 2017
Looking back at the early days of exploring new avenues for sustainable livelihood options such as rearing tasar cocoons is an opportunity to relive the highs of the first breakthroughs and the lows of the time
April 4, 2017
The eastern regions of India— Uttar Pradesh, Bihar, West Bengal and, at that time, the not-yet-created Jharkhand—that PRADAN was working were the field areas where I was very deeply involved. We first began exploring tasar as an intervention to help tribal populations of the Chota- Nagpur plateau increase their options of livelihood
March 10, 2017
Recounting his initial engagement with tasar as a livelihoods option for the tribals of Chaibasa district, the author describes how over the last two decades this has become a meaningful though challenging involvement, requiring perseverance and optimism
March 8, 2017
Scouting for locations across states to launch the Tasar Project, motivating farmer families to develop plantations, garnering funds from agencies, training farmers in scientific methods of tasar rearing, and marketing the collective produce were some of the slow and steady steps in the creation of an alternative livelihood for the villagers of Bihar, Jharkhand and Madhya Pradesh