About
In 2016, the Balipara Foundation embarked on an ambitious journey to
restore forests across Assam’s “Elephant Country”, a belt stretching
from [tk district] all the way to [tk district]. As this dream began to
take shape, we found ourselves drawn to the same question over and
over again: why not forests and people?
Hours of deliberation later and we had an answer: Rural Futures, the
key to reconciling human & biodiversity needs.
A scalable, localized action framework for natural capital
regeneration, Rural Futures visualizes communities as the primary
stewards of habitat restoration & management. Through
habitat-mediated incomes, communities achieve greater socioeconomic
mobility, generating a self-sustaining loop of sustainable incomes and
businesses for forest-fringe communities.
The Rural Futures Mission
In time, communities accrue enough value through natural capital to
become self-reliant, accessing and delivering universal basic assets &
services needed to secure basic human needs for improved quality of life
and income.
The Naturenomics Civilization
Our passion for Rural Futures is to extend its principles, along with the principles of
NaturenomicsTM – ecology and economy in interdependence – across Assam to the
Eastern Himalayas and beyond, to build the NaturenomicsTM Civilization.
Our passion is a future in which natural capital forms the central core of a global
biome with humans, wildlife and industry in thriving symbiotic coexistence.
A future with self-sufficient, self reliant autonomous networked forest-fringe
communities with sustainable livelihoods & businesses based on regenerative
habitat management.
A future with natural capital-based system for communities to independently
deliver equitable access to universal basic assets.
A future with regenerative, cooperative natural capital based economy that
securitizes LEWWAC (Land, Energy, Water, Waste, Air, Carbon).
EASTERN HIMALAYAS
2050
