Tribal women and their creation of “dream cards”: entitlement to land rights against environmental deterioration
As for environmental protection, women are bordered by women and receive little or no attention. In the private sector, your environmental protection work – the sorting of waste, saving water and reuse of packages in discourses on the coping with environmental problems are unnoticed. In order to understand the important role of women in the introduction of initiatives to cope with climate change, we have to recognize that tribal women are the first environmentalists. Stammy women have protected a lot to protect land and combat environmental deterioration even before the Indians got political power from the British.
Stammy women and discourses on their commitment to protect the environment must not be limited to the Chipko movement. Today, women in tribal areas that do not receive significant media reporting, initiatives to preserve decreasing resources and to maintain life for future generations.
Such a look comes from Odisha – one of the 10 planned tribal states of the fifth schedule of the Indian constitution. In the state, tribal women understand that their leadership roles are important for the protection of the environment, otherwise their future generations could confront obstacles.
The resistance of tribal women should not be limited to the chipko movement
When it comes to understanding different branches of eco -feminism – liberal eco -feminism, socialist eco -feminism, radical eco -feminism and cultural eco -feminism, tribal sockets still remain connected. In the mainstream discourses on eco -feminism, the resistance of tribal women against the exploitation of resources is not attributed to much attention. Only a few research studies on the Stamm’s environmental protection were carried out to capture the relationship between tribes and environmental protection. The study of the tribal environmentalist can understand ecological crises in connection with countries and resources, to which tribal peoples are faced.
Source: The new Indian Express
In order to protect the environment and minimize the decline in resources, tribal women have contributed for a long time. The Chipko movement and the Narmada Bachao Andolan -witness to the front of the front of tribal women to protect the resources for securing future generations. But it does not mean limiting your struggle to these movements. Today, women in tribal areas are trying to secure “green” so that children have no difficulties in the future. Such an example is in Odisha.
Odisha – a planned tribal area – is a place after the fifth schedule of the Indian constitution in which tribal women create “dream cards” to be familiar with important areas in order to have gained the conditions of resources, including roots, fruits, medicine and herbs, from the forests. Through these cardsWomen document the condition of forests, villages, pasture areas and agricultural locations and note that climate change is one of the reasons for resource mining. As a result, tribal residents, especially children and women, are affected.
Climate change is primarily due to human activities that burn fossil fuels that lead to irregular monsoons that influence agriculture. In order to take into account his consequences, tribal women pull cards together with a local non -governmental organization to locate the decreasing resources and to recalculate.
These tribal women try to have their right to access to land and resources to protect them from exhaustion.
These tribal women try to have their right to access to land and resources to protect them from exhaustion. There is awareness that forests accommodate a bonus of different resources. Temperature fluctuations in high, irregular rainfall and dwindling forests – have an impact on the tribal population. They want their rights in the middle, and the authorities should ask for their permission to change their country in the name of the development.
Source: AP News
Since the women of the tribe are more aware of the serious consequences of climate change than political decision -makers, there should be their full direct participation in the protection of the environment. Be precise, After the 2025 Climate Risk IndexIndia is one of the most endangered countries in the world’s climate change. It shows that India suffered from heat waves, floods and cyclones between 1993 and 2022, which led to thousands of deaths and around $ 180 billion.
Odisha’s tribal women create cards to maintain life for future generations
In Odisha, climate change has a great deal of food production. There is a case study of Fakir Mohan University This shows a decline in food production in the past 50 years by 40%.
In Coraput’s villages, Flowers, bears, forest resources and water are susceptible to climate change. In order to tackle these topics, women from various villages in Koraput have worked together to work as committed cartographers to locate the common areas that testify to resource raving with the help of government data and historical records. In order to be precise, the cards are drawn to locate the “commons” that relate to the community-Sent resources in Odisha. These resources are threatened by a number of factors such as deforestation, pollution and overexposure in a capitalist setup.
These cards are drawn by hand to help women protect village borders, residential areas, including water and pasture areas with traditional maintenance methods.
For a long time, the participation of women has been more in the household, housework and in the collection of forest products than men, women try to choose leadership roles for sustainable practices.
For a long time, the participation of women has been more in the household, housework and in the collection of forest products than men, women try to choose leadership roles for sustainable practices. Her commitment to maintain the “green life” for future generations motivates you to create cards.
Reservation in the recognition of the leadership roles of tribal women in combating climate change
In tribal areas there is a willingness between tribal women to maintain their land rights so that they can take on leadership roles in order to effectively tackle climate change. Due to the decrease in forest products, health problems in women and children are widespread. Deforestation and forest production reduction can cause anemia Among tribal women and children, they deprive them of “green forest food”. Socio -economic inequalities are such a factor that can cause iron deficiency.
Source: AP News
Stammy women as environmentalists who came to the fore in the movements of Chipko and Narmada Bachao still have difficulty taking leaders into account in combating climate change and introducing methods in order to get ready. This is because Odisha comes into the capitalist patriarchal setup. The design and pollution take place for development projects in which tribal members do not benefit from the administration of resources.
It is therefore important to concentrate on tribal environmental protection, and the roles that women take over to protect the environment. Environmental protection should be a collective initiative that is not gender -specific. It is believed that cooperation between women with nature and the protection of the environment is a female responsibility. Such a association limits women to traditional roles and they are connected with it “Mother Nature”. It is not only in contemporary times that nature of nature is understandable as female, but can also be seen in literature, cultures and mythologies.
This association expects women to protect both houses and the planet. This leads to Eco-stress This leads to mental reactions to climate change, for which women are most exposed to, since the economic deterioration influences them in a disproportionate manner. As in Odisha, where tribal population rely on resources for their livelihood, it affects women due to environmental deterioration due to socio -economic inequalities. In addition to the management of resources and farm work, tribal women are expected to take care of their health and nutrition.
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