Only millet varieties and desi seed could adapt to climate change and enable farmers address climate change.

We can be assured of clean food.

Farm ponds can lead to privatization of water by a few, and when dug on a large scale, these schemes ignore the carrying capacity of the watershed.

Women strengthen livelihoods, ensure a steady supply of quality seeds for cultivation and increase access to pesticide-free food.

“They realise that groundwater is a common resource, not private property, and hence requires collective action,”

Through this venture, farmers are finding stable incomes, and sustainable livelihoods as the produce is directly bought without intermediaries

Millets are being made part of the midday meal and Integrated Child Development Services (ICDS) in several districts of Odisha

In dryland areas, falling groundwater levels may be causing working handpumps and borewells to go dry, requiring large capital expenditure.

"In areas where several borewells tap the aquifer, ... we try to convince the whole community to opt for recharge."