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.

Bio-diverse crops is the way forward in Telangana

A small farmer from Medak has made a handsome income growing millets, oilseeds and pulses – without any irrigation source or borewell.

How Jharkhand’s Waterman Is Ensuring All Year Water Supply in 51 Villages & Bringing Back the Forest

Simon Oraon, popularly known as Baba in his area, is also referred to as ‘Jharkhand’s Waterman,’ by the media.

Maharashtra Village Women Take Charge of Ration Shops, Ensure Fair Prices & Food for All

Women in Korchi village of Maharashtra run a ration shop to ensure that their family members are getting nutritious food throughout the year.

Saving raindrops for thirty years

The chowkas method of preserving rainwater makes the top layer of soil moist, recharges ground water, and also enables growth of native vegetation.

A success story in parched Bundelkhand

Prem Singh’s farm has plenty of water, fruit-bearing trees, and organic products

नैसर्गिक शेतीने साधली किमया (in Marathi)

बिनपाण्याची शेती...महिन्याला दीड लाखांचं उत्पन्न !

Hope in Bihar

Bihar would be well on the path of progress under progressive governance and grassroots action by its citizens when these are implemented state-wide.

Woman earns profit growing organic millets

Millet farmers are able to influence a large number of farmers raising paddy and sugarcane to switch over to organic farming in their area.

The Divine Connection

If one is shifting from their usual dietary plan to another, the process has to be slow.