Nutritional Security
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From city lights to rural farms
"The best financial planning will fail by the time one retires, thanks to inflation. But a live source of food will serve one till the end,”
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Lifting the curse of child malnutrition from Bidar
Of the 96 children that were identified as Severely Acutely Malnourished in July 2013, 61 have become normal...
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How do you feed thousands of people in Rajasthan without irrigation?
It only needs to rain once, sometime during the southwest monsoon – about 80-100 mm is what the desert farms need to thrive!
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The Delhi Seed Festival (March 8-9, 2014)
The Delhi Seed Festival (March 8-9, 2014) saw the display of over 2,500 seed varieties of cereals (rice, wheat, millets), pulses, vegetables, tubers, medicinal plants, and uncultivated/forest foods!
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Our Local Santha (Farmers’ Market)
This is the story of how a local farmers' market was born in an arid corner of Rayalseema...