Food and Water

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.

Farmers, buyers celebrate organic food

Do you know your farmer?

These consumers are funding farmers to make food sustainable

(Many consumers give) direct monetary support to farmers who have been practising traditional millet-based biodiverse agriculture for decades.

Café Paaka, Hyderabad: ‘Organic, artisanal, slow’

To promote underground independent arts, to provide a platform for such artists and to expose the crowd to a variety of alternative genres

Festival of Uncultivated Food: Weeding out the myths

Edible plants and crops which we ignoramuses tend to dismiss as weeds, are plants that grow without their seeds being sown and alongside other crops.

Seed is better preserved this way

A Gondi Adivasi lady preserves seeds for over 12 years using a traditional technique!

Walk along the Ken to Find a World You Didn’t Know Was There

We discussed old stories, traditions surrounding the water, agricultural practices, recent climate patterns, historical narratives, people’s aspirations.

Harvesting hope: the permaculture movement in India

Permaculture farms offer food throughout the year, reduce waste and pests and keep the soil healthy and productive.

Wetlands of Tamil Nadu soon to have protected status

Through notifying 100 wetlands as “priority wetlands”, the state’s choking urban wetlands may finally breathe.

Youth drive revival of traditional rice varieties in West Bengal

“Traditional rice cultivars are inherently endowed with higher nutritional value than their chemically grown counterparts.”