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.

Women Farmers Demand Recognition, Empowerment and Support as Farmers

Participants in the convention ratified the Bapatla Declaration resolving to collectively produce sufficient grains and pulses for their own needs first and create and secure sustainable livelihoods.

आघे चो बीज के सम्हालतो बिता किसान (in Halbi language of Bastar )

हुनचो लग १०० किसम चो देसी धान आसे. ए सपाय धान चो बारे में हुन अलग अलग नानी नानी जानकारी खोजलोसे.

Roof top Water Harvesting Structure: A Source of Income with Nutrition

Chandradev understands that even a small parcel of land can be a resource if managed well.

Folk Rice Magic and Low Yield Myths

Traditional crop varieties are often recorded to have out-yielded modern varieties in marginal environmental conditions

Understanding Tribal Agriculture

Tribal agriculture systems are in harmony with nature as well as the food and nutrition needs of people. They are risk minimising systems

Meet India’s female ‘seed guardians’ pioneering organic farming

The ‘seed guardians’ of Odisha are pioneering new ways of sharing and storing seeds to reap a more sustainable future

Supply millets in Public Distribution Sytem: DDS

More than 15 varieties of millet crops are being grown by farmers, even during adverse conditions like severe drought.

From U.S. to Mandya – Why a Software Engineer Left America to Run a Farmers’ Co-Op in Rural India

This software developer left the US to return to India and become a farmer. Now, he is also working for the welfare of other farmers by helping them grow and market organic produce.

Making city folk aware of the types and value of tubers

"People are realising that tubers (there are 12 varieties grown traditionally around Malnad in northern Karnataka) are climate-sustainable crops."