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.
Uttarakhand Villagers harvest rainwater, recharge springs, avoid long walks
"... the villagers also started taking care of the jungle around it to strengthen the springs in the hills who had been depleted,”
Small Sustainability Initiative changes women’s lives in a big way
The transition to organic farming has allowed people to save Rs. 400 every season. The quality of soil has also improved.
Reap What You Sow! Mangaluru Students Grow 1.4 Tonnes of Rice on Fallow Land
Students levelled the field, planted seedlings, removed weeds, and finally, last month, harvested their produce.
Meet the Lady Who Has Revived 25 Forgotten Varieties of Rice; Try Some Today!
The need to eat right and provide nutritious meals for their child led Menaka and Thilak Raj to become entrepreneurs.
Bridging urban-rural divide
Cooperative initiatives that involve urban and rural people to solve problems of villages as well as cities, help to bridge the rural-urban divide
Uttarakhand govt. to purchase millets, food grains directly from farmers
Apart from benefiting farmers, the scheme would also benefit thousands of school going children.
The little fish in big rivers
Across the region, fish is always prepared in combination with local herbs, ferns, flowers and seasonal vegetables.
How AP’s aggregators are doing it
Its target is to bring down the cost of production in farming and provide higher income to farmers by following organic methods.
Taking firm root: A cooperative success story off Salem
Member-farmers do not cultivate the same crop; the produce is purchased by the society; and farmers are debt-free.