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Extraordinary Work of ‘Ordinary’ People: Beyond Pandemics and Lockdowns (in Malayalam)
Re. capacity building to govern and manage food, health, water, energy, shelter, education, and other basic needs and aspirations
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Extraordinary work of ‘ordinary’ people: Beyond pandemics and lockdowns
Re. capacity building to govern and manage food, health, water, energy, shelter, education, and other basic needs and aspirations, to be selfreliant
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Rice Tea to Millet Momos: This Woman Is Reviving India’s Tribal Culinary Gems
"We decided to give Momos a healthy twist by using madua or finger millet to make them, in place of maida or flour. "
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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.
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Sikkim sees surge in butterfly biodiversity
What do farms have to do with butterflies?
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Millets in the Indian Plate: A Policy Perspective
Millets have a potential role in resolving nutrition-related problems of the country though there are challenges from the demand side.
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Collective Dreaming: Democratic Visioning in the Vikalp Sangam Process
What is our vision of a better future? What are our answers to questions of poverty, hunger, energy insecurity, and other deprivations?
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Exploring uncultivated greens
Grown among different varieties of millet crops, the uncultivated greens have high nutritional value.
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Schools turn nutrition gardens in Mizoram district
To make every school, Anganwadi, child care institution and hostel in Lawngtlai self-sufficient in local fruits and vegetables