Centre for Interdisciplinary Studies

• promotes in situ conservation of folk crop genetic diversity and sustainable resource use system;
• encourages and promulgates ecologically sensible living, based on local biocultural ethic;
• nurtures traditional cultural and social institutions of nature conservation and traditional bonds of community, which are in the demise with modernization of values; and
• demonstrates how ecological architecture, resource conservation and minimizing waste can weave comfort into frugal living.

The range of CIS activities may be described under the rubrics on the following pages.