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Shastri News - November/December 2009

$80,000 Millennium Development Goals Research Grant recipient announced

The Shastri Institute is pleased to announce the winners of our 2010-2012 Millennium Development Goals Research Grant. Dr. Steven Newmaster and Dr. Nirmala C. Balasubramaniam will be the principal investigators in a collaborative research project between the University of Guelph (Ontario) and the Centre for Biocultural Diversity (Chennai). They will be working with three aboriginal communities in South India to assemble biodiversity knowledge toward an en-gendered cultural approach to environmental sustainability.

Application excerpt…
We chose to explore the traditional knowledge of several aboriginal cultures within India because this knowledge is richly built on thousands of years of history and is still an integral part of these cultures today. It was apparent from our first field experience that the ecosystems are very diverse and the respective traditional knowledge (TK) had great depth. Our early work discovered that this knowledge is very reliable within a culture as evidenced by high consensus. As researchers we were captivated and humbled by the wealth of TK, but most of all we were amazed at the discoveries during the assemblage of knowledge among science and TK.

While working with these cultures we recognized that pressures from population, water shortage and rapid urbanization have added stress to the need to maintain high productivity while protecting the integrity of the ecosystems. Non-timber forest products (NTFPs) provide an important supplement to livelihoods of many local families of which women appear to play a prominent role in NTFP harvesting and conservation. Promotion of equitable and sustainable access to these resources is essential and for this infrastructure improvement is required. However this should be provided in a way that sustains biodiversity in agriculture and forestry.

This has inspired us to develop this research project entitled “The Assemblage of Biodiversity Knowledge Toward an Engendered Cultural Approach to Environmental Sustainability”, which will explore the role of gender in the knowledge of biodiversity and conservation of natural resources. Our proposed project will generate a repository of traditional knowledge and an education model for the respective ‘Madhuvaras’, ‘Malasar’ and ‘Irulas’ communities.

The Shastri Institute received a high volume of quality applications for the MDG Research Grant this year. We would like to thank all the teams who applied and commend them for their efforts.

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