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31 projects · 31 organizations

Land & Rights

WOTR mobilizes villages across India's drought-prone drylands to build check-dams, contour trenches and ponds that recharge groundwater and bring barren common land back into production.

1.6MhectaresDegraded watershed land treated
5,551villagesVillages worked in
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Land & Rights

The Centre for Pastoralism works with India's estimated 10-20 million mobile herders to reclaim traditional grazing grounds under the Forest Rights Act and prove that seasonal migration is a sound way to manage rangeland, not a relic to be fenced off.

15million people (est., range 10-20M)Estimated mobile pastoralists grazing India's forests, grasslands and farm fallows
85percentShare of India's carpet-grade wool produced by pastoral flocks
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