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.

With zero-cost methods, this 68-year-old scientist is fighting farmer suicides in Vidarbha

Only the locally available seeds, local breed of the cow and local soil can make such farming a self-sustainable, no-additional-cost method.

Toor de Force in Ragi Fields

Students have learnt about types of soil, nutrition, setting up a drip irrigation system and figured out that planting marigold repels insects

Slow food festival held in Kotagiri

Tribal groups brought tubers, greens, millets and even milk from indigenous cattle that have been used by them for many generations.

System of Millet Intensification (SMI) – Farmers from Nuapada Felicitated by Member of Parliament

160 varieties of Paddy seeds, 20 varieties of Finger Millet and vegetable seeds were on display in different stalls at the seed fair.

Millet-based ready-to-cook foods launched

A community production centre set up by the Deccan Development Society introduces millets-based nutritious ready-to-eat and ready-to-cook foods.

Eco-Friendly, Low-Cost Farming the Way to Go for Sustainable Food Security

Most participating farmers said that the cost-effective INSAP technology had helped them regain the confidence to continue farming.

बुंदेलखंड की बंडई नदी का पुनरुज्जीवन – सफलता की कहानी (in Hindi)

बंदई नदी का जल अब क्षेत्र के ५० गावों का जीवन बन चूका है

बीजों की परंपरागत संस्कृति और खेती पद्धतियों से खाद्य सुरक्षा संभव (in Hindi)

स्थानीय मिटटी पानी के अनुकूल देशी बीजों की परम्परागत विविधता बिना पर्यावरण का नुक्सान किये लोगों की खाद्य सुरक्षा सुनिश्चित कर सकती है

This Hyderabad-based organisation has helped over 2.5 lakh farmers through permaculture

Aranya Agricultural Alternatives is striving to achieve ecological and sustainable agricultural livelihoods through permaculture farming.