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.

What’s on my plate?

A first-person account explains how understanding farming, local produce, food processing, and, of course, how to cook, holds the key to enjoying food.

Eco-friendly way to good living

Contrary to a growing trend, many farmers in Tamil Nadu are now opting for organic farming as it is a low-cost affair.

‘Roti Bank’ guarantees right to food in Bundelkhand

Volunteers collect and distribute the food, benefiting patients and attendants, destitute on the roads and railway station, slum dwellers and poor undergoing treatment at home.

Barefoot hydrogeologists: The next generation

The time taken for villages in Nainital district, Uttarakhand to resolve their spring-related disputes has shrunk from two year to six months. Here's why.

More crop per drop through injection well

This technique utilises rain water for recharging natural aquifers in the rural sector where ponds exist.

The Five Per Cent of Palamau farmers

Many more families in this block are now busy digging Five Per Cent ponds in their respective lands so that the rainwater this monsoon does not rush off and a good portion of it stays in their lands.

Mahila Kissan Sammelan 2015

Millets which are much more nutritious and will stand up to the changing climate, get no support at all.

Weather Wise

Its areal view even shows you the condition of clouds in your area.

From city lights to rural farms

"The best financial planning will fail by the time one retires, thanks to inflation. But a live source of food will serve one till the end,”