Millet ( in Khasi is called as Krai) is an important crop that farmers of the bygone days were really fond of. However, with the passage of time, people have forgotten…
TIP & NESFAS PARTICIPATE AT THE 1st INTERNATIONAL AGROBIODIVERSITY CONGRESS (AIC) on SCIENCE, TECHNOLOGY, POLICY AND PARTNERSHIP The 1st International Agrobiodiversity Congress (AIC) is underway from the 6th to 9th…
How India can learn to tackle climate change from its indigenous communities
Maria Estela Barco Huerta, General Coordinator of DESMI in Mexico, reflects on the agroecology learning exchange in Uganda that the Agroecology Fund hosted in partnership with the Alliance for Food…
Agroecology is connected to the intrinsic wisdom of indigenous peoples; says Dr. Rangad Photo: Rucha Chitnis The Northeastern region of India is a…
In an impressive fossil fuels travel day, I left the Standing Rock reservation and flew to Italy for the International Slow Food gathering known as Terra Madre. A world congress of harvesters, farmers, chefs and political leaders, this is basically the World Food Olympics. This is my fifth trip to Italy for Slow Food. I first went with Margaret Smith, when the White Earth Land Recovery Project won the Slow Food Award for Biodiversity in 2003, for our work to protect wild rice from genetic engineering. (more…)
