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.

Rooftop farmers reap rich harvests

These urban farmers educate people about the benefits of organic farming and also do their bit to make the city a cleaner, greener place to live.

In India’s dry regions, crowd-funding comes to a lake’s rescue

"De-silting Nilona would need huge amount of money, time and hard work. We needed a citizen movement,"

സിക്കിം : പ്രകൃതിയിലേക്ക് വീണ്ടും (in Malayalam)

സിക്കിമിലെ ജൈവ കൃഷി മുന്നേറ്റ ത്തെപ്പ റ്റി ഒരു പഠനം .

Farmers urged to conserve indigenous seed variety

Four seed melas will be conducted in different parts of Kerala including Payyannur, Wayanad Thrissur and Kozhikode, in January, February, April and May months respectively.

UNEP lauds pesticide-free farming in Kerala

The United Nations Environment Programme has praised farmers of Kuruvai village in Palakkad district for their success in cultivating paddy without chemical pesticides.

Thanks to Zaheerabad, Nagaland ‘rediscovers’ millets

The North East Network revived millet farming in the village, and organised a millets festival on August 30 this year, attended by women farmers from 11 villages of Nagaland.

Dang women find route to empowerment through the stomach

A regular diner said he visits Dang every month just to eat at Nahri. “This food is not available anywhere else and the women serve it like a mother."

Sunny balconies and hanging gardens in Goa

Terrace kitchen gardens are slowly making their mark here.

बीज विरासत को सहेजता किसान (in Hindi)

उनके पास देशी धान की 110 किस्में हैं। इन सभी धान के गुणधर्मों का उन्होंने बारीकी से अध्ययन किया है। वे हर साल इन्हें अपने खेत में बोते हैं और अध्ययन करते हैं।