5th April, Tura: North East Slow Food and Agrobiodiversity Society together with its partner communities from Garo Hills, celebrated Aman A•song (Mother Earth) Millet Festival cum Agroecology Learning Circle (ALC)…
Indigenous communities value sharing, caring and consensus building. For years, indigenous farmers have been preserving, managing, sharing and propagating local seed varieties to enhance resilience in the food production system.
Recently one of the authors was made aware of the Free Rice campaign launched by the World Food Programme (WFP). The campaign is implemented through the Freerice website and mobile application which allows participants to donate rice to needy families by playing a multiple-choice quiz game.
NESFAS will be facilitating the journey of reviving the various varieties of millet through the rich experiences of community members from Ri-Bhoi as an initiation to bring back old indigenous crops.
Community members of Dewlieh (East Khasi Hills district) are known for practising shifting cultivation also known as ‘jhum cultivation’. Their agricultural practices favoured the cultivation of millet, an important…
People are left wondering as to what would happen if there was food scarcity during the recent Covid-19 Lockdown that struck the state and worldwide. The Government in its own…
