Cultivating Resilience – Environment Education : CSE
Wednesday 17th Jan 24 / timing 4 pm – 5pm / Mode: Zoom
The Centre for Science and Environment (CSE) is a public interest research and advocacy organisation based in New Delhi. CSE researches into, lobbies for and communicates the urgency of development that is both sustainable and equitable. The scenario today demands using knowledge to bring about change. In other words, working India’s democracy. This is what we aim to do.The challenge, we see, is two-pronged. On the one hand, millions live within a biomass based subsistence economy, at the margins of survival. The environment is their only natural asset. But a degraded environment means stress on land, water and forest resources for survival. It means increasing destitution and poverty. Here, opportunity to bring about change is enormous.But it will need a commitment to reform – structural reform- in the way we do business with local communities. On the other hand, rapid industrialization is throwing up new problems: growing toxification and a costly disease burden. The answers will be in reinventing the growth model of the Western world for ourselves, so that we can leapfrog technology choices and find new ways of building wealth that will not cost us the earth. Our aim is to raise these concerns, participate in seeking answers and in pushing for answers, transforming these into policy and so practice. We do this through our research and by communicating our understanding through our publications. We call this knowledge-based activism. We hope we will make a difference.
With one of the highest arable land areas in the world, India in the 1960s pinned all its hopes on the input and chemical-intensive model provided by the Green Revolution. While the model was a success in many aspects, it also unraveled issues such as exploitation and degradation of natural resources encompassing land and water, alarming biodiversity loss and concerns relating to human and animal health. These repercussions of these have been exacerbated by the looming specter of climate change, which is altering our planet in irreversible ways. From erratic weather patterns to rising temperatures and unpredictable shifts in agricultural zones, the impact of climate change on our food production systems is unmistakable.
The Green Revolution, revered for its strides in amplifying agricultural productivity, is under scrutiny in this month’s GEN lecture. The session will shed light on the urgent need to re-evaluate conventional agricultural methods in the wake of growing concerns and challenges.
CSE’s Green Educators’ Network (GEN) invites its members to its next online lecture in the series ‘Environmentally Speaking’, with Vineet Kumar, Programme Manager, Sustainable Food Systems, CSE. With extensive research experience under his belt, Vineet will examine the principles and benefits of organic and natural farming, their role in mitigating the adverse effects of conventional agricultural practices, and how these methods serve as a crucial adaptation strategy against climate change.
Join us on January 17, 2024 at 4 PM by registering on the link provided below.
To know more, contact:
SAKSHI UNIYAL
Programme Officer
Environment Education, CSE
Email: sakshi.uniyal@cseindia.org
Phone: (011) 40616000, Extn 300
