Events

International Conference on Development Studies Using the Field Learning Methods (April 7-8, 2025)

The conference received papers from various disciplines. It was an interesting mixture of textiles, elephants, weeds and happiness index. The abstracts are attached here.  

Webinar series on Environment Preservation and Human Rights 

organized by Centre for Field Learning for  the Centre for Transformative and Global Justice, University of Greenwich, UK, with support from Eko Consulting

Talks for the webinar series:

January 15, 2025: Alka Parikh: Processes and Laws that led to Sikkim becoming the first 100% organic state in the world.

February 19, 2025: Nuzhat Parveen Khan and Oly Roy: The Silent Voices: Understanding the Reproductive Rights of Rape Victims from Socio-Legal Perspective in South Asia.

March 19, 2025: Abhishek Gupta: Pro Bono Culture in India: Enhancing Access to Justice through Voluntary Legal Service.

April 16, 2025: Kavita Mehta: The issues faced by the pastoral communities and the action projects by Sahjeevan.

Multidisciplinary Conference on Field Learning

We are planting forests!!  

From July end, the Founding Director of the Centre, with the funds of Sudha and Dhirendra Parikh (same fund that supports CFFL), started plantation of trees at two levels: 1. Putting up forest plantation in village wastelands and 2. Providing lucrative fruit tree saplings to women farmers. Two NGOs, Utthan and Vasundhara Foundation are helping in executing the work. Six village wastelands will be greened and 140 women farmers' incomes will be enhanced by Rs. 10,000 - 40,000 per year. 

The left is the photo of a woman from Mamsa village, Bhavnagar district, standing with the planted sapling of the coconut tree that she received from us. The right is the photo of the people who helped in planting 307 saplings in the cremation ground of the same village.