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.

A river comes to people

Nanduwali started flowing again when the villagers of Ghewar decided to work with nature and not against it.

Art under the open sky

The village's first ‘land art’ has been created by growing leafy vegetables in the shape of Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s face, and a slogan

Campaign in tribal areas to make North Andhra a millet hub

The five-year project aims to increase productivity, household consumption, value addition, marketing support, setting up of processing centres etc.

Organic Sikkim: “Ahimsa” on the Fields

“We created livelihood schools, where 835 educated unemployed youth were taught organic farming practices. We also created seed processing units,”

Integral Community Building with Food in Jaipur

Looking at food in life serving ways ...

Prosperity in times of drought

The objective of building a water shed, making trenches, etc. is to cut down the speed of rain water and controlling soil erosion.

Tribal women in M.P. show that strength lies in numbers

They have formed a farmers’ produce organisation in Dewas that bypasses exploitative middlemen to access markets directly

Conservation: Lessons from ancient India

Ecologically safe engineering marvels of water conservation have existed in India for nearly 1,500 years, including bawaris

Kutch villages protect water table with community wells

300 villages of four talukas in the coastal area of Gujarat are involved in an aquifer management project for the past four years.