{"id":116065,"date":"2021-06-23T13:24:04","date_gmt":"2021-06-23T13:24:04","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.edristi.in\/?p=116065"},"modified":"2021-06-23T13:24:05","modified_gmt":"2021-06-23T13:24:05","slug":"2021-land-for-life-award","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.edristi.in\/hi\/%e0%a4%b9%e0%a5%8b%e0%a4%ae\/2021-land-for-life-award\/","title":{"rendered":"2021 Land for Life Award"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>Question: Which Indian environmental organization has won 2021 Land for Life Award organised by the UN Convention to Combat Desertification (UNCCD)?<br><\/strong>(a) Familial Forestry<br>(b) Greenpeace India<br>(c) Chintan<br>(d) Navdanya<br><strong>Answer: (a)<br>Related facts:<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\"><li>Rajasthan based environmental organization Familial Forestry has won the 2021 Land for Life Award by the United Nations Convention to Combat Desertification(UNCCD).<\/li><li>The organization has been awarded for a unique concept that relates a tree with a family, making it a green &#8220;family member.&#8221;<\/li><li>Familial Forestry is an environment conservation concept by climate-activist Shyam Sunder Jyani, an Associate Professor for Sociology in Rajasthan.<\/li><li>Familial Forestry means transferring the care of tree and environment in the family so that a tree becomes a part of the family\u2019s consciousness.<\/li><li>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.<\/li><\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>About Land for Life Award:<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\"><li>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.<\/li><li>The theme for the 2021 Award is \u201cHealthy Land, Healthy Lives\u201d.<\/li><li>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.<\/li><\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>Links:<\/strong><br><a href=\"https:\/\/www.unccd.int\/news-events\/2021-land-life-award-winner-familial-forestry\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">https:\/\/www.unccd.int\/news-events\/2021-land-life-award-winner-familial-forestry<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>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) NavdanyaAnswer: (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 [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":9,"featured_media":116066,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7228],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-116065","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-awards-honors"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.edristi.in\/hi\/%e0%a4%b9%e0%a5%8b%e0%a4%ae\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/116065","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.edristi.in\/hi\/%e0%a4%b9%e0%a5%8b%e0%a4%ae\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.edristi.in\/hi\/%e0%a4%b9%e0%a5%8b%e0%a4%ae\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.edristi.in\/hi\/%e0%a4%b9%e0%a5%8b%e0%a4%ae\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/9"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.edristi.in\/hi\/%e0%a4%b9%e0%a5%8b%e0%a4%ae\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=116065"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.edristi.in\/hi\/%e0%a4%b9%e0%a5%8b%e0%a4%ae\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/116065\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":116067,"href":"https:\/\/www.edristi.in\/hi\/%e0%a4%b9%e0%a5%8b%e0%a4%ae\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/116065\/revisions\/116067"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.edristi.in\/hi\/%e0%a4%b9%e0%a5%8b%e0%a4%ae\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/116066"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.edristi.in\/hi\/%e0%a4%b9%e0%a5%8b%e0%a4%ae\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=116065"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.edristi.in\/hi\/%e0%a4%b9%e0%a5%8b%e0%a4%ae\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=116065"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.edristi.in\/hi\/%e0%a4%b9%e0%a5%8b%e0%a4%ae\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=116065"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}