IEKS and Sustainable Land Resource Management - a surveillance on the practices among the <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal">Tangsa Naga</i> and <i style="mso-bidi-font-style:normal">Tangkhul Naga</i> of North East India

Abstract

The paper will look into the sustainable component of Land Resource management Practices and associated IEKS among the <i style="mso-bidi-font-style:normal">Tangsa Naga</i> communities of Pataki Hills (Tinsukia district of Assam) and <i style="mso-bidi-font-style:normal">Tangkhul Naga</i> communities of Naga-Lusai Hills (Ukhrul district of Manipur) of Eastern Himalayas. It will try to identify the attributes of holistic consideration, nurturing of diversity and ecological integrity, along with issues of integration and symbiosis to ascertain equality and equity in their practices. In so doing, paper will portray the spatial pattern of their land uses on the basis of the data base already developed through Participatory GIS (PGIS) field exercises, along with doctrine of management practices through land ownership, land use decision making processes, crop and cultivar selection processes, water use regulation and control, etc on the basis of data collected through PRA exercises using the PRA tool, viz. FGD, seasonality assessment, transect walk and transect analysis. Moreover, Q-GIS platform is used for analysis and depicting the spatial pattern.