Indigenous Peoples’ Food Systems can be a viable solution for alleviating Poverty and achieving Zero Hunger in Hilly and Coastal Regions: Pius Ranee’s voiced at the International Conference on Sustainable…
NESFAS organized an online webinar on the strategic plan to address the concern for the communities’ resilience in the time of the COVID-19 pandemic in consultation with medical experts, representatives from communities, and like-minded organisations, board members, advisors, and staff
Subsequent to the success of the Indigenous Youth Fellowship Programme in 2017, NESFAS, a local indigenous organisation, will host the programme for 2019 while bearing most of the cost of this…
The Inter School Indigenous Food Cooking Competition Shillong was held on the 23rd September 2017 at 'Lahai-roi' Gardens, Umkdait, Nongmensong Shillong, as part of the Golden Jubilee Celebration organized Seven Set…
On 7th April 2017, NESFAS hosted its first ever Mei-Ramew Market, (Mei-Ramew means Mother Earth in the native Khasi language) which connected the people with local farmers in a mutually…
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…)
