Request: Publicly withdraw your statement that “Organic farming is worse than atom bomb;” and your approval of GM seeds in ZBNF/SPNF.

We need to promote a decentralised approach, with a key focus on water conservation, source sustainability, storage and reuse wherever possible.

Community networks are involved in collective farming (which is based on social ownership of means of production and collective labour.)

Clean catchments such as rooftops, roads and storm drains could be used to harvest a substantial volume of the city's rainfall.

"We must build the governance and institutional capabilities for an integrated urban water management system. The rest will follow."

When every village captures all the run-off resulting from the rain falling over its entire land can every village have enough water.

Yields of millets, sorghum and maize showed better resilience to extreme weather and also witnessed smaller declines during droughts.

After the dam was built, farmers began to abandon planting of this paddy as the fields often got flooded when there were freak rains in a year.

Ensuring food security and diversity of food, seed security, nurturing of the ecosystem and, more importantly, protecting health of communities.