Question: Which Indian environmental organization has won 2021 Land for Life Award organised by the UN Convention to Combat Desertification (UNCCD)?
(a) Familial Forestry
(b) Greenpeace India
(c) Chintan
(d) Navdanya
Answer: (a)
Related facts:
- Rajasthan based environmental organization Familial Forestry has won the 2021 Land for Life Award by the United Nations Convention to Combat Desertification(UNCCD).
- The organization has been awarded for a unique concept that relates a tree with a family, making it a green “family member.”
- Familial Forestry is an environment conservation concept by climate-activist Shyam Sunder Jyani, an Associate Professor for Sociology in Rajasthan.
- Familial Forestry means transferring the care of tree and environment in the family so that a tree becomes a part of the family’s consciousness.
- More than a million families from more than 15,000 villages of desert-prone northwest Rajasthan in over 2.5 million saplings have been planted in the past 15 years, with active participation of students and desert dwellers.
About Land for Life Award:
- The UN Convention to Combat Desertification (UNCCD) organises the Land for Life Award every two years to recognize excellence and innovation in efforts towards land in balance.
- The theme for the 2021 Award is “Healthy Land, Healthy Lives”.
- The Land for Life Award was launched at the UNCCD COP (Conference of Parties) 10 in 2011 in the Republic of Korea as part of the Changwon Initiative.
Links:
https://www.unccd.int/news-events/2021-land-life-award-winner-familial-forestry