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.

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.

Non-Bt variety of cotton escapes deadly Whitefly infestation in Punjab

In the other plot, a non-Bt variety of cotton too was far less affected by whitefly

Back to the earth, the hard way

The Internal Control System used by the Organic Mission for certification brings farmers’ holdings on a village or block level into collectives so they can avoid seepages between farms.

Villagers and a modern Bhagirath bring life back to dry Marathwada

An NGO and people from 25 villages joined hands to revive the Chitte river near Aurangabad