Health and Hygiene

Healthcare for all, focusing on preventive, diverse systems of health and medicine

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This section features stories of initiatives ensuring healthcare for all. These are based on approaches that help prevent ill-health in the first place, including the provision of nutritional food, enabling an environment that is healthy, and so on. They include ensuring access to curative facilities to those who have conventionally not had such access. And they have stories of synergizing various health systems, traditional and modern, bringing back into popular use the diverse systems from India and outside including indigenous/folk medicine, nature cure, Ayurvedic, Unani and other such systems, and other holistic or integrative approaches. Community-based management and control of healthcare and hygiene, and ensuring accountability of the state’s responsibility towards citizens in health, would be part of the stories featured here.

VIKALP SANGAM CORE GROUP STATEMENT ON THE NEED FOR CREATIVE, LONG-TERM ALTERNATIVES IN VIEW OF COVID-19

STATEMENT SENT TO THE GOVERNMENT OF INDIA AND ISSUED IN THE PUBLIC INTEREST ON NEED FOR CREATIVE, LONG-TERM ALTERNATIVES IN VIEW OF COVID-19 , 28 March 2020

Against the grain: why millet is making a comeback in rural India

Sharing knowledge, increasing their output, and accessing new markets.

आदिवासियों की सब्जी बाड़ी (in Hindi)

यहां जैविक ढंग से सब्जी बाड़ी की खेती जा रही है। इससे ताजी हरी फल्लीदार सब्जियां, कंद व मसाले और औषधियुक्त पौधे मिलते हैं।

Mission Shakti Mela:Traditional snacks turn heads

To enable rural and urban women producers to showcase their products, develop market linkage and refine their produce.

Fresh From Farm To Plate: How A Think Tank In Bhubaneswar Is Creating New Space For Millets In Its Backyard

Produce Organically, process methodically, market strategically and consume carefully

A quick survey of wheat diversity in India

Eating diversity and paying the farmer is a way all of us can contribute to agro-biodiversity conservation.

Millet farmers devise mechanism to counter Climate Change

Millets - our heritage crops - are highly nutritious and climate resilient. They ensure food, nutrition, fodder, ecological and livelihoods security.

Switching back to coarse cereals can offer multiple benefits: Study

Food supply can be enhanced by planting more nutritious and environment-friendly crops such as finger and pearl millets and sorghum

Why I wrote a book on Dalit food

In Mumbai they were introduced to supposedly iconic Maharashtrian dishes vada pav and misal - unheard of in Marathwada!