Foto: Roland HardenbergProjektleitung: Peter Berger & Roland Hardenberg
Die Ursprungsidee des Netzwerks ist es, Wissenschaftlerinnen und Wissenschaftler, die an der Erforschung von Hirse in ihren jeweiligen soziokulturellen Kontexten interessiert sind, über Regionen und Zeiten hinweg zu verbinden. Unter welchen Bedingungen wird Hirse zu einer zentralen Nahrungsressource? Welche Faktoren tragen umgekehrt dazu bei, dass Hirseanbau zunehmend vernachlässigt wird und Hirse als Grundnahrungsmittel aus der Küche verschwindet? Wie ist die Hirse in verschiedenen Gesellschaften kulturell eingebettet und welchen Zusammenhang gibt es zwischen Hirsekulturen und formen sozialer Organisation? – Dies sind nur einige der zentralen Fragen, die ein Konsortium von Forscherinnen und Forschern beschäftigt, das sich 2018 zu einem Netzwerk zusammengeschlossen hat. Das Netzwerk umfasst Archäologen, (Ethno-)Archäobotanik, Botaniker und Sozial- und Kulturanthropologen der Universitäten Groningen und Frankfurt am Main und dient als Plattform für die Koordination von Forschungsaktivitäten. Die Wissenschaftlerinnen und Wissenschaftler untersuchen vergangene wie gegenwärtige Gesellschaften in Afrika und Indien und behandeln ein breites Feld an Themen, wie zum Beispiel die Konkurrenz zwischen Hirsesorten und anderen stärkehaltigen Produkten, die Gründe für die weltweite Marginalisierung von Hirse sowie die Zusammenhänge zwischen den materiellen Affordanzen und konkreten Praktiken der Produktion, Verarbeitung, Distribution und Konsumption von Hirse in Afrika und Indien. Die Definition von Hirse wird in diesem Netzwerk bewusst offengehalten, um die regionalen Varianten von tatsächlich genutzten Gräsern zu erfassen. Die Mitglieder des Netzwerkes kommen zu regelmäßigen Treffen zusammen, veranstalten gemeinsame Workshops und Konferenzen und bündeln ihre Expertise für interdisziplinäre Forschungsaktivitäten. Das Netzwerk sieht sich als ein Verbund, der eine enge Verbindung von Wissenschaft und gesellschaftlichen Institutionen und Partnern gewährleistet, um im Sinne einer „third mission“ einen Wissenstransfer in die Gesellschaft, national wie international, zu erreichen.
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Peter Berger: | p.berger[at]rug.nl |
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Dinesh Balam is a professional with 12 years of experience and worked in different capacities in projects in Asia, Europe and Middle East. In the last 7 years he has exclusively worked on rainfedagriculture in 5 states. His core areas of work are Agrobiodiversity and Agroecology, Rainfed Agriculture Policy Advocacy, Multi-stakeholder programme design and management. He has worked
extensively with various institutions such as Niti Aayog, MoA-CRIDA, MANAGE-MoA, FAO, NRAA-MoA, ICAR institutions, UNDP, RRA Network and Indian School of Business on developing the appropriate project delivery design for rainfed agriculture.He has played a key role in development of Odisha Millets Mission, Odisha Organic Farming Policy, Paramparaghat Krishi Vikas Yojana for Odisha and so forth. He is currently advocating for community led agrobiodiversity programmes in the country.
Photo: PrivatSharanya Nayak lives and works with adivasi communities of southern Odisha since 1999. Before that she worked as a sub-editor with New Indian Express but soon she
realised she did not like a desk job and wanted to spend more time with people in the villages. She joined ActionAid, a British funding agency, and moved to Bolangir district town to work with Dalit and Adivasi migrant workers and then moved to Malkangiri in 2001 to work with Adivasi forest communities. Since then she has worked with Adivasi communities across Rayagada, Malkangiri, Bastar and Koraput on issues ranging from land, forest, language, mining resistance and culture. She quit her job in 2015 and moved to a farm in an Adivasi village 10 kms from Koraput town. She farms there along with three other Adivasi and Dalit families who have formed a nascent farming commune called Rangmatipadar and continues her engagement with Adivasi communities on issues around forest, farming, mining resistance, language, intergenerational learning and culture.
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Aditya Pratap Singh Deo is a development professional and millets conservation enthusiast. He is currently associated with the Watershed Support Services and Activities Network (WASSAN), a national level non-for-profit organization based out of India. His fascination with millets has started more than two decades ago and his early professional work on women and child nutrition cemented it further. He had been relentlessly working in collaboration with local farmers since 2005 for improvement and conservation of indigenous heirloom seeds of millets, pulses, maize, and paddy. He works in collaboration with the Kutia Kondh indigenous communities of Kandhamal and Khalahandi districts of the Indian state of Odisha to study and conserve the indigenous agriculture practices, heirloom seeds, and culture. He often shares heirloom seeds with individual farmers for conservation through cultivation. He was working with Odisha Millets Mission for a period of three year .He is also an active member of Desi Bihan Surakhya Manch, Oidsha and Bharat Beej Swaraj Manch, India, a regional and national level seed savers networks of India.
Foto: Pritu Vatsa
Pritu Vatsa is a dreamer, free soul, a learner in the school of life and a believer in co-creation of holistic spaces. She is to be found mostly in and around forests, streams, mountains and villages, currently learning and sharing with the indigenous communities in Odisha. She has also been working in collaboration with Eco-Femme in parallel, trying to reach women and girls. With them she conducts workshops on eco-menstruation, body image, body discomfort, stigmas and taboos related to menstruation.
She alongwith the Kondh community in Odisha started the initiative called the "School of Nature " which is about making education culturally relevant, context specific and ecologically rooted.
The Facebook-page of "School of Nature"
Veranstaltungen
Workshop Contested Millets in Asia and Africa, May 18th-19th 2018, Frankfurt am Main
Aktuelles
Millets: ancient crops for the future
University of Groningen, 18 May 2020