Durga Gayatri Gorla

LA4012

Changing paradigm in agriculture - Baddem

Restoring the lost dynamics of Velip community Baddem Vada, Cotigao. Understanding it's geography, communities, diverse customs, and cultures helps us to see how the Velip community of Baddem has depended on the natural resources for survival since the beginning and have neglected their effective management today. However, over time, the network of dependencies between communities, land and the ecosystems developed but these linkages are fractured. The aim of the study is comprehend these connections, reliance, and commons that support the communities by studying Baddem as a symbiotic process between land and its livelihood.

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Recognizing Commons ; orientation towards the concepts of Commons I Defending commons in Changing Urbanlandscape - Begum Bazaar, Hyderabad

Tracing Commons I Conceptualizing the commons of Baddem, Cotigao

Understanding Physical Setting I Identifying Velips Community

Focusing on the Ground truthing the commons to arrive bottom-up understanding of the commons of Velip community

Narrating Commons I Comprehending thought Different Topographical Setting and point of inquiry (Sub Precinct Analysis 1 )

Narrating Commons I Comprehending thought Different Topographical Setting and point of inquiry (Sub Precinct Analysis 2)

Narrating Commons I (Sub Precinct Analysis 3). Comprehending thought Different Strategies to maintain the functioning of traditional practices and the relationship between communities and the commons

Commoming Commons I Interventions to strengthen traditional communities and landscape, serving community associations

Commoming Commons I Interventions to strengthen natural landscape and serving that as a resource to the communities

Bringing together the disconnect between the Velip Community and the Ecological Layers to the advantage of all while preserving the fabric of the Village and restoring the identity of its users in different topographical setting