खाद्य सुरक्षा, जैव विविधता, मौसम बदलाव और पर्यावरणीय दृष्टि से भी इसका महत्व आज बढ़ गया है। On Jhum agriculture around Niyamgiri

Group organises 'wild food festival' at Bhimashankar to preserve culinary art, get young ones to take pride in dishes

"The places Indian elites like to call ‘backward’, such as tribal areas, were those with the greatest chances of having retained these varieties over time."