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Adivasis- The Indian Context• 4635 communities in India, of which

586 have been recognized as

Scheduled Tribes Adivasis : 8 percent

• 84 million Adivasis

• Primarily based in mountain and hillareas

• Article 342: Parliament uses itspowers to include or delete acommunity from the Schedule Tribe

list.• Article 244 – Schedule V

• Special laws govern Schedule Vareas that give protection toAdivasis, their right to theirresources, 1

Sagari Ramdas – Anthra and Adivasi Aikya Vedik

organisations



Andhra Pradesh

5 million Adivasis (2001 census) 33 tribes

6.3 % of the total Adivasi population of India.6.6 % of the total Andhra Pradesh population .

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Forest Tribes Population (2001) census LocationBhagata 133434 VisakhapatnamChenchus 49232 Mahabubnagar, KurnoolGadabas 36078 Vizianagaram, Srikakulam

Gond, Naikpodu 252038 AdilabadJatapus 118613 Srikakulam, VizianagaramKolam, Manyevaru 45671 AdilabadKonda Dhora 206381 Visakhapatnam

Konda Reddi 83096 East Godavari, KhammamKondhs 85324 VisakhapatnamKoya 568019 Khammam, Warangal, East GodavariManne Dhora 13579 VisakhapatnamNooka Dhora 37938 VisakhapatnamPardhan 23724 AdilabadPorja, Paringa Porja 32669 VisakhapatnamSavaras 122979 Srikakulam,VizianagaramThoti 2074 Adilabad

Total 1810849



Adivasi Aikya Vedika• Alliance of Adivasi Groups (15 )

• Each organisation: approx 50-80 villages in thereterritories• Major focus of work- Rights to resources- land, forests,

water,

* Strengthen indigenous systems of local self-governance• Conserve and protect Traditional Knowledge, practices,

biodiversity (revived and conserved 30-50 varieties offood crops, local breeds of goats, poultry, knowledge ofhealing, )

• Elders, young people,• Adivasi Women led- central to building resilience

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• Savaras – Hill top, forests, Shifting Cultivation• Chenchus- Hunter- Gatherer,

• Koyas- River, forest, settled & shifting agri,poultry, goats, cattle• Konda Reddi-as above

• Gond – forest, agriculture and cattle/ goats

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Indigenous resilience-Buen Vivir• Land- Territories: rights, laws,• Women – decision making, at home, in the community, visa vis agriculture

and other livelihoods, community decisions, resources in village , children, etc• Systems of self-rule and local governance (traditional ------ Gram Sabha):

traditional elders, young people, elected representatives, what issues continueto be addressed, issues and challenges- gender aspects therein

• Culture, Spirituality, traditions that build community resilience

• Biodiversity- Food crops ,cropping patterns, crop varieties, cultivation,consumption and saving seeds and community adaption practices towardsprotection of their own seed verities etc.

• Animal diversity- breeds, and purpose of rearing- changes in population if any• Traditional knowledge – community livelihoods.

• Forest – customary systems of governance, gods and goddesses, customaryboundaries, Forest produce, Medicinal plants, Fodder, mapping theirgovernance, status conservation, re-vitalising

• water resources- Status of utilizing, conservation and managing them etc.• National legislations / programs that build or weaken resilience.

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Factors weakening the resilience-and drivers of climatechange

• States amending laws to weaken indigenous rights to

land, forests, water, knowledge, biodiversity,• Weakening local systems of self-rule and governance• Process of women being marginalised from their

erstwhile central role of decision makers• Youth alienation from the community• Forces of globalisation: Dams, Mines, Forestry

programs, Corporate agriculture, GMOs, micro-credit

finance, ”objectification” of traditional knowledge.• National Climate Change adaptation plans (plantations,

biofuels, CDM projects• Global Markets – (grow “chicken feed maize/ soya” not

food) 7



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Poorvam Ipatikalam Jaragapoe



Chenchus“ Not allowing us to practice our lives andlivelihood; They take our land, forests, and

water; our lands are encroached by othercastes, religious forces. No freedom to gohunting, which is key to our survival. “

• “In one Cave there used to be 200honey combs of the peddapera honeybee). Now in Puba Karti there is lessrain, flowering of the important trees isless, the honey bees, are less, and wesee this because the number of combswhich are built have reduced to 50; thehoney is not sufficient. Now the combhas more wax, and less honey. Otherhoney bee (18 types) there “

Chenchu leader, Apppapur 10

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