Crisis in India’s bread basket
How agriculture, capital and corporate investment have reshaped Indian Punjab, and brought about its current precarity
Ruza, a traditional water harvesting system for the water-scarce mountains
It is a communal practice with the water shared among families and an integrated form of farming comprising forestry, horticulture, agriculture, fishery and animal husbandry.
Greening Mother Earth: How Vanvadi In Maharashtra Is Reclaiming Forests For A Cause
This regenerated, natural ‘forest-farm’ with its pristine, unpolluted environment, is ideal to pick up lessons in biodiversity and sustainable living
Indigenous Farmers to Revive Millet cultivation in Kanthalloor
Twenty-five farmers from indigenous communities in Kanthalloor in Kerala are sowing millets with renewed vigour.
पर्यावरण के साथ आजीविका की रक्षा (In Hindi)
महाराष्ट्र के भीमाशंकर वन्य जीव अभयारण्य में आदिवासी जंगल व ज़मीन का अधिकार लेने की प्रक्रिया में जुटे हुए हैं।
ASHA Kisan Swaraj Sammelan
Healthy portions of both critique of the mainstream system and a plethora of alternatives were dished up at the sammelan, alongside literal platefuls of delectable traditional organic foods
Decoding Politics: Of, in, about Food
A woman farmer teaching the politics of food to city-based college students and village-based organic farmers.
Sowing Seeds of Ecocentrism
Journey of Jeewika as she sets up safe spaces to converse about wellness, food, societal constructs and the world within.
The revival of millets is improving the lives of tribespeople in Odisha
The festival celebrates the ancient practice through which farmers exchange indigenous heirloom seeds, also with the younger generation, passing down their knowledge alongside the heirloom seeds."