Food and Water
Making water use and distribution ecologically sustainable, making food accessible, safe and sustainable
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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.
Medak Schools Grow Their Mid-day Meal
The responsibilities of school students included regular watering, weeding and harvesting of their own organic farms, and compost pit maintenance.
How do you feed thousands of people in Rajasthan without irrigation?
It only needs to rain once, sometime during the southwest monsoon – about 80-100 mm is what the desert farms need to thrive!
Timbaktu Collective (India) Receives the OWA Gold Award
Mary Vattamattam and Bablu Ganguly succeed in implementing their vision of empowerment of the rural population to live self-determined, sustainable lives, with equal rights for both genders.
It’s the heart of Indian agriculture that matters, not GM evangelism
“We assert our sovereign rights to freely plant, use, reproduce, select, improve, adapt, save, share…as we have done for past millennia.”
Rice from Dry River
“The channel provides water throughout the year, even when the drought is severe,” says Chinna Erappa, a farmer.
Debal Deb: The barefoot conservator
"The places Indian elites like to call ‘backward’, such as tribal areas, were those with the greatest chances of having retained these varieties over time."
Link biodiversity with the Pleasures of Food
What do Global Agrobiodiversity Hotspots have to do with Indigenous People?
Gujarati women excel as breeders of camels and buffaloes
Herder Meera Bhen, from the Kutch region, is making history throughout India, as her idea of marketing camels' milk takes off
Low-cost Solar Powered Air-Cooler-cum-Fridge
How expensive might an air-cooler-cum-fridge be?