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.

The Man Who Is Using Cameras To Revolutionize Agriculture In India

Farmers become video filmmakers, which is turning them into more productive farmers and more confident human beings.

Amrutdhara: An initiative to provide affordable clean water with zero plastic waste

“When we cut out the bottle, we could cut costs, and offer what consumers wanted, clean water, at half the price per liter of bottled water ...”

Website to improve farmers’ lifestyle

A website dedicated to the creative work that people across India are doing as alternatives to the current models of destructive development and self-promoting governance

What binds every family in this Kerala Panchayat

Chemical-free cultivation of vegetables has evolved into a culture in Kerala’s Kanjikkuzhi Gram Panchayat.

Tribal farmer plugs into the sun

Munuswamy of Uranduru village, Chittoor (Andhra Pradesh), is the first to get a solar-powered farm connection in A.P.

PhotoStop: ‘Organic’ reach at Fair Trade Alliance Kerala’s Seed Fest 2015

The 5th Fair Trade Alliance Kerala Seed Fest saw organic farmers from Kerala showcase their produce and share how beneficial organic farming can be.

Ploughing on

The NGO Kudumbam has focused on the development of the rural family and sustainable farming since its establishment in 1982

Lifting the curse of child malnutrition from Bidar

Of the 96 children that were identified as Severely Acutely Malnourished in July 2013, 61 have become normal...

A one-stop Store for Millets

An assortment of great millet, finger millet, sorghum, ragi, korra, and a host of other coarse grains are now available for the health conscious. Ground millets are also available.