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Designing Future Livelihoods: The Sustainable Value of Tripura Bamboo Mission

Designing Future Livelihoods: The Sustainable Value of Tripura Bamboo Mission
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Author(s): Tamanna M. Shah (IL&FS Education and Technology Services Limited, India)
Copyright: 2019
Pages: 19
Source title: Practice and Progress in Social Design and Sustainability
Source Author(s)/Editor(s): Kin Wai Michael Siu (The Hong Kong Polytechnic University, Hong Kong)and Yin Lin Wong (The Hong Kong Polytechnic University, Hong Kong)
DOI: 10.4018/978-1-5225-4183-7.ch002

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Abstract

As one of the oldest cottage industries of India, the bamboo crafts are an important source of livelihood for the tribal societies in Northeast India. With the advent of globalization, new spheres of networking and market opened up making it hard for the traditional artisans to compete with the global sellers. With no value addition, the products sold by the artisans were undervalued in the global market. Gradually, artisans adopted newer means of producing these traditional goods, which involved both process and product innovation. In order to protect indigenous knowledge base and tradition, Tripura Bamboo Mission was introduced as a successful sustainable livelihood model. It is based on a cluster approach that innovatively transforms a subsistence crop into an essential source of livelihood. This chapter reflects on the sustainable value of the TBM design and the impact of collaboration on the community and productivity of tribal artisans. It also highlights the socio-cultural value addition to the community and the sustainability value of the cluster design.

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