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.

Using bio-fuel to run an irrigation pump for five acres

“If a farmer has two punnai trees on his land, he can reduce the diesel cost considerably. I run the motor for about five months using the oil during summer,” says a farmer who uses oil extracted from the seeds of that tree to run a diesel pump for irrigation in summer months.

Our Local Santha (Farmers’ Market)

This is the story of how a local farmers' market was born in an arid corner of Rayalseema...

Use Un-Packaged Water

'Water without Waste' campaign to promote use of un-packaged water in India.

रावसाहेब दगडकर : सहज सुलभ नैसर्गिक शेती (in Marathi)

रासायनिक शेतीपद्धतीमधील वाढत्या उत्पादन खर्चाने पोळलेल्या रावसाहेब दगडाकारांनी १९९० साली त्यांची ११० एकर शेत-जमीन नैसर्गिक शेतीखाली आणली. (Story in Marathi)

Bhaskar Save, the Gandhi of Natural Farming

Veteran farmer Bhaskar Save's organic farm yields more than any farm using chemicals, going by any criteria including total quantity, nutritional quality, taste, biological diversity, ecological sustainability, water conservation, energy efficiency, and economic profitability.

Kerala Organic Farming Policy announced

Chief Minister V.S. Achuthanandan, on Monday, officially announced the Kerala State Organic Farming policy aimed at making farming sustainable and ensuring toxin-free food to public within 10 years.

Decentralising ration procurement in Odisha’s anganwadis

“Earlier there was delay in delivery of ration and rice near us. We could hardly give some lentils and rice to the children. However with money coming directly to our hands, we are trying to give best to the children,” says an anganwadi worker in Nuapada district.

Torch bearers for millet seed security

While agriculture in other parts of the country was in doldrums, the sangham farmers were completely self-reliant re. food, seeds and farming.

Natwar Sarangi of Odisha, the individual revolutionary

Natwar Sarangi of Odisha is an extraordinary farmer, collecting and trying several hundred traditional varieties of paddy and redistributing them to willing farmers.