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Articles by Manipadma Jena

The Global Urbanization of Malnutrition

Manipadma Jena November 8, 2017 Manipadma Jena

Rapid urbanization is increasingly shifting the impacts of malnutrition from rural to urban areas. From 777 million chronically undernourished people worldwide, 2016 saw a jump to 815 million.

An ethnic matriarch in India's biodiversity-rich Sikkim State in the Himalayan foothills. She is a repository of traditional knowledge on plants both for food and medicinal properties. Credit: Manipadma Jena/IPS

Why the World Needs Indigenous Communities to Steward Their Ancestral Lands

Manipadma Jena August 14, 2017 Manipadma Jena

Approximately 370 million indigenous people are spread across 70 countries worldwide. Indigenous communities' ancestral land and natural resources have a fundamental importance in their livelihood, ways and of life, culture and religion and, in fact, in their collective physical and cultural survival as communities.

Women farmers at work in their vegetable plots near Kullu town, Himachal Pradesh, India. Photo by Neil Palmer (CIAT).

Women Farmers’ Land Rights: Closing the Global Gender Gap in the Midst of Climate Change

Manipadma Jena July 3, 2017 Manipadma Jena

Climate change is ushering in new population dynamics. As men’s out-migration from indigenous and local communities continues to rise due to fall in land productivity, population growth and increasing outside opportunities for wage-labor, more women are left behind as de facto land managers, assuming even greater responsibilities in communities and households.

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