Food and Water
Making water use and distribution ecologically sustainable, making food accessible, safe and sustainable
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Making water use and distribution ecologically sustainable, making food accessible, safe and sustainable
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This section features initiatives towards producing and making accessible safe and nutritious food, sustaining the diversity of Indian cuisine, and promoting slow food. Along with this, it carries stories on making water use and distribution ecologically sustainable and equitable, achieving decentralised conservation, retaining water as part of the commons, and democratic governance of water and wetlands.
We would like to avoid featuring purely elitist food fads even if they pertain to healthy or organic food, and expensive technological water solutions that have no relevance for the majority of people.
Exploring uncultivated greens
Grown among different varieties of millet crops, the uncultivated greens have high nutritional value.
महिला किसानों की पहाड़ी खेती (in Hindi)
जलवायु बदलाव के दौर में पहाड़ी इलाकों में परंपरागत खेती की पुनः वापिसी हुई है। जैव विविधता और पर्यावरण का संरक्षण हुआ है। महिला सशक्तीकरण हुआ है।
Transforming livelihoods through farm ponds
Farm ponds aid in superior water control through the harvesting of rainfall, surface run-off and subsurface flows.
‘Multi-cropping has economical and agronomic benefits’
“The climate is changing and becoming hostile to farmers. Even if four-five crops survive, your food needs are met,”
Meet Telangana’s fiery dalit women fighting all odds to save environment
Our millet-based agriculture - self-sustaining and sovereign agriculture - is our heritage.
‘Need to revive age-old farming methods’
More studies must be conducted on how all farmers may be incentivised to use such traditional knowledge.
Collectivisation of Water
Farmers in Chellapur of Kurnool district have shared their groundwater with their fellow villagers through a groundwater grid
1420 Varieties, 25 Years: Meet the Man Rescuing India’s Rice Diversity From Extinction
"We go the extra mile so that the farmer who takes these seeds takes home the same variety that I conserved 25 years ago. "
Drought-resistant crops in focus at monsoon seed festival
The festival has brought 32 seed saver groups from across Karnataka State together