Keystone Foundation Archives

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• Irula Wild food-pillur book final with Index
  This booklet, the third in the series , documents the indigenous knowledge of communities in the Nilgiri Biosphere Reserve. The current publication contains the wild food plants of the Irula of the Pillur region.
• Millet initiatives: Traditional Millet farming in Nilgiri Biosphere Reserve
  This is a research paper that delves into the techniques of millet agriculture in Melseemai or Sathyamangalam Tiger Reserve area amongst the Irula community. Araganai is the traditional method of splitting millet plants in order to improve yields. The tools and implements needed for Ragi and Samai cultivation are described here including the associated botanical species needed to craft these.
• SANFEC Land Use Study, 2006 - Study of Economics of Ecological Agriculture: A Study of 4 types of land use with Adivasi communities in the Nilgiris, Western Ghats, India
  A detailed study and mapping of the traditional agricultural and agroecology of the Kurumba and Irula communities. Detailed surveys of mixed cropping patterns and systems, organic inputs used in such ecological agriculture, and its effect on soil health and biodiversity was undertaken for this analysis. The varieties of crops in an intercropping or mixed cropping system has been listed here including the uncultivated food plant varieties and the biodiversity it supports was catalogued during the research.
• Choice of Grain
  This book has details of traditional agricultural practices of indigenous communities in the Nilgiris, especially Irula and Kurumba. The publication included details of traditionally grown food crops, their local names and associated recipes. It also contains excerpts on traditional practices that are practiced in the mid-elevation slopes of Nilgiris. This resource was created in English and Tamil, towards the aim of promoting Food Sovereignty amongst adivasis in the Nilgiris as well as as a reference for researchers of traditional agriculture and food.
• Kurumba and Irula (India - World Food - Communities)
  The story of two indigenous communities that live in the Nilgiris
• Trade and marketing issues when dealing with tribal products
  A brief history of Keystone's livelihood interventions with the honey hunting communities of the Nilgiris, developing markets for wild honey, promoting bee keeping etc.
• Honey Hunters of The Nilgiris: The Road to Sustainability
  An account of the communities, stories and techniques related to honey hunting in the Nilgiris