The Three-Decade Evolution of Vanvadi Forestversity
The vital themes that land-based learning communities urgently need to address are: checking soil erosion and degradation; enhancing vegetation, protecting biodiversity, enhancing fertility and absorption/storage of rain; becoming self-reliant in growing food and building homes; establishing diverse ecologically sustainable and satisfying livelihoods; and evolving methods for convivial self-governance and effective resolution of interpersonal conflicts. Vanvadi — now a Forestversity — has been experimenting with these issues for three decades.