Español: Un estudio sobre las prácticas de gestión de la biodiversidad de la participación de Comunidades de las tribus Malayali de KolliHills en el sur de la India. 

It is timely need to understand the participatory approaches that has enabled community to conserve, use and sustainably manage the natural resources. One such initiative has been demonstrated in Kolli Hills which forms its part of Eastern ghats of south India. The “4 Cs integrated approach”(Conservation, cultivation, Consumption and Commerce) has helped the tribal farm families to conserve and effectively manage the agro biodiversity. This people initiative has help to not only conserve the local biodiversity and also provided them strength and capacities, skill sets, increased awareness, mobility and public participation in decision making processes. Besides, stakeholders of initiatives had opportunities to increase their economic status and to access developmental infrastructure to manage their bioresources. Understanding these initiatives would help researcher to document the processes, impact and possible improvements areas that would further shape the community biodiversity management practices.