A dimension within Forest Food & Rights
This theme explores the revival of traditional foods and cultures, addressing the destruction of forest tubers and the importance of seed preservation.
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Overall Community Sentiment
We want to preserve ancient languages, dances, songs, traditions, food, conservation, nurturing, etc.
— Gitanjali Bhoi · Sundargarh, Odisha
To save our tradition and culture
— अमर जीत · Sonbhadra, Uttar Pradesh
Ratnagiri Pradhan village and Rajgora Panchayat, Konda Kanjamedi block, Konagazi Konabala. The traditional dance and music from our past are currently disappearing. Therefore, we want to revive and preserve those dances, songs, and traditional songs. We also want to revive traditional foods like Kandula, Biri, Kuiri, Kangu by cultivating them. If we preserve this tradition, the quality of our traditional food will be beneficial for us. Therefore, we will continue our efforts to preserve them.
— Sidheswar Nayak · Nuagaon, Kandhamal, Odisha
We want to preserve rain-fed crops like maize and jute, which are part of our old heritage, for future generations.
— bachcha lal · Shahganj, Sonbhadra, Uttar Pradesh
Here, our ancestors used to cultivate sava, medon, mijhari, and kodo, whose rice and bread were eaten. Today, they are slowly disappearing. Therefore, we should preserve them so that they remain a part of our lives forever. These are very nutritious and powerful food items.
— Ram Kumari
But we need to protect the traditional farming that was done before.
— Niranjan Bisi · Bissamcuttack, Rayagada, Odisha
We should preserve our culture so that herbs and forests remain.
— Chanda
We should protect our culture so that our food items from the forests and cultural programs remain alive.
— Vijay Kumar bhardwaj · Baloda Bazar, Chhattisgarh
We should preserve our culture, herbs, forests, our history, and old festivals like Karma.
— Chanda · Sonbhadra, Uttar Pradesh
We want to bring all the traditional medicines, including roots and herbs, that are available. And we want to save the forest. All the traditional games that were played...
— Laxmi Bagh · Sundargarh, Odisha
We want to bring back past millets, cuckoo, mahua, etc.
— Gitanjali Bhoi · Sundargarh, Odisha
We must preserve old traditions like dance, music, cuisine, and herbs for our future generation.
— bachcha lal · Shahganj, Sonbhadra, Uttar Pradesh
I want to bring back the medicinal items, food items, and root vegetables found in our forest, so that they do not disappear.
— Laxmi Bagh · Gandhinagar, Rayagada, Odisha
To preserve our tradition and culture, we have to protect our heritage and we have to
— Pushpalata Surtange · Simga, Baloda Bazar, Chhattisgarh
The dance, music, and coarse grains in farming that we have received in our heritage are for the preservation of these people for the next generation.
— bachcha lal · Shahganj, Sonbhadra, Uttar Pradesh
We want to preserve the dance, songs, and language of our ancestors.
— Gitanjali Bhoi · Sundargarh, Odisha
so that our culture can be saved
— अमर जीत · Kewata, Sonbhadra, Uttar Pradesh
We should engage in traditional conservation so that we can inform future generations about herbs and traditional songs, ensuring their preservation for generations to come.
— Chanda
We should protect our culture so that our tradition and culture can be saved.
— अमर जीत · Sonbhadra, Uttar Pradesh
We should protect our culture so that our past culture is preserved.
— अमर जीत · Sonbhadra, Uttar Pradesh
To preserve culture
— Vinita Singh Yadav · Dharura, Sonbhadra, Uttar Pradesh
Our heritage includes ancient dance and music, and we should preserve our culinary traditions for the new generation.
— bachcha lal · Shahganj, Sonbhadra, Uttar Pradesh
We want to preserve rainfed farming, including maize, millet, and barley, for our own generation.
— bachcha lal · Shahganj, Sonbhadra, Uttar Pradesh
To protect even the supreme traditional methods, we need to make people aware and tell them about our old seeds which grow naturally by nature.
— Ram Maravi · Dindori, Madhya Pradesh
We cultivate paddy, wheat, and pulses in our village and want to preserve this as a heritage.
— bachcha lal · Shahganj, Sonbhadra, Uttar Pradesh
We save our traditional seeds that we have inherited.
— Vijay kanesh · Alirajpur, Madhya Pradesh
In traditional farming methods, to preserve seeds, we need to conserve the oldest and indigenous varieties of seeds.
— Ram Maravi · Dindori, Madhya Pradesh
For us, the knowledge of traditional culture, civilization, traditions, customs, food and drink, worship, lifestyle, and herbs should reach the next generation.
— Devisingh Solanki · Alirajpur, Madhya Pradesh
We want to preserve all the languages, dances, and songs of ancient times.
— Gitanjali Bhoi
We should protect our culture because preserving it will save traditional knowledge, native seeds, water, forests, and land.
— Sunil oraon · Ranchi, Jharkhand
So that our culture can be saved.
— अमर जीत · Sonbhadra, Uttar Pradesh
We want to preserve our language, dance, and songs.
— Gitanjali Bhoi · Sundargarh, Odisha
We have received our traditional native seeds from our ancestors, which we conserve and protect for the coming generation.
— Sunil oraon · Ranchi, Jharkhand
We should protect our culture so that our traditions, culture, and customs remain in the future.
— Sunil oraon · Ranchi, Jharkhand
We should protect our culture.
— Krishna pada mahato · Beltnar, East Singhbhum, Jharkhand
We will learn from our ancestors to preserve our culture and tradition.
— Gitanjali Bhoi · Karamdihi, Sundargarh, Odisha
We want to traditionally preserve our social everyday traditions and the work we do in our community, through which we can preserve our own...
— Pushpalata Surtange · Simga, Baloda Bazar, Chhattisgarh
Our tribal community, our language, our songs, our forest, our seeds, our food, and our way of life – all these make us unique, and we must officially preserve them.
— Ulapi Sahu · Balangir, Odisha
To preserve one's culture
— Vinita Singh Yadav · Dharura, Sonbhadra, Uttar Pradesh
We should preserve our culture so that our tribe does not become extinct and our culture stays alive.
— Sukhdas Mandavi · Mohla, Mohla-Manpur-Ambagarh Chowki, Chhattisgarh
