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.

Learning from the land: a Kerala school’s emphasis on nature

Students walk bare-foot on the red, loamy soil, amid peacocks and rabbits. They harvest organic fruits and vegetables such as mangoes, pumpkin, guavas, and jackfruit.

Oh, the seeds of hope

"The idea is to wean farmers and home gardeners off hybrid or GM seeds and propagate the use of native or indigenous seeds"

आदिवासी जानते हैं स्वाद और पौष्टिकता (in Hindi)

१० महीने की जरूरतें खेत से पूरी हो जाती हैं, २ माह का गुजारा जंगल से हो जाता है.

देशातील पहिला धरा चित्र उत्सव (in Marathi)

सद्ध्याच्या स्थितीत शेतीविषयीच्या प्रश्नांवर ७ शेतांमध्ये ७ वेगवेगळी चित्रे साकारण्यात आली आहेत.

India’s first Land Art Festival

Through this land art festival we will be celebrating our land, our soil, our food and nature...

ଜଙ୍ଗଲ ତାଙ୍କ ଥାଳିରେ (in Odiya)

The new forest policy had led to malnutrition in their communities and they got down to get back what they had lost - millets and seeds.

Glimpses of the Food Sangam at Muniguda, Odisha

The sangam started with a mini food festival and a public event which saw participation of people including children from surrounding grampanchayats ...

The market beyond drip

System of Water for Agricultural Rejuvenation method requires one-fourth of the water that drip does, to adequately irrigate fruit trees and vegetable-bearing plants.

The Case for Millets: Despite Calls by Scientists and Activists, The Coarse Grain Remains Unavailable Under PDS

Even during peak drought years, millet crops don't entirely fail. And every acre that grows millets over rice saves 6 million litres of water.