Food and Water

Making water use and distribution ecologically sustainable, making food accessible, safe and sustainable

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.

Celebrating India’s Riverine Fisheries on the World Fisheries Day

Riverine fisheries support vulnerable communities and contribute to food sovereignty of far-flung places.They're true ambassadors of healthy and living rivers.

Rooftop rainwater harvesting at Chhattisgarh school reduces absenteeism

The villagers now have access to clean and safe drinking water, and are also not dealing as much with scarcity.

Why Meghalaya’s Slow Food Festival is something everyone needs

'Slow Food' is the entire process from cultivating organic food, in complete harmony with nature, to various traditional processes of preserving it, to finally giving the ingredients time to cook to perfection

SGPC to produce organic seeds for distribution among farmers

The Shiromani Gurdwara Parbandhak Committee has declared its intention of producing and distributing organic seed of different types of food grains, vegetables and pulses

नियमगिरी के आदिवासियों की खेती (in Hindi)

खाद्य सुरक्षा, जैव विविधता, मौसम बदलाव और पर्यावरणीय दृष्टि से भी इसका महत्व आज बढ़ गया है। On Jhum agriculture around Niyamgiri

भूख का साथी है जंगल (in Hindi)

धरती माता को हम पूजते हैं। कंद, मूल, फल, मशरूम, बांस करील और कई प्रकार की हरी भाजी हमें जंगल से मिलती है। (On Odisha's Forest Food)

Keepers of the seeds

Like other women have done for generations in Rajasthan, Chamnibai Meena has been saving local seeds and preserving indigenous knowledge

Food fest to revive tribal cuisine

Group organises 'wild food festival' at Bhimashankar to preserve culinary art, get young ones to take pride in dishes

Setting right water woes

Valvemen send direct alerts through an interactive voice response system about when the water valves are opening.