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Cooks' Alliance of Chandigre preparing local food for the participants. Chandigre is one of the communities who will be participating at IMR-2015. Photo: NESFAS/Chakseng

The Chandigre Cooks’ Alliance Cook In

A visit to Chandigre Village, falling under the Rongram Community and Rural Development Block of West Garo Hills, on 7th August 2015 by the NESFAS team ended with a scrumptious meal…

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Read more about the article All-rounder Millets on Rural People’s Plates Since the Sangam Period
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All-rounder Millets on Rural People’s Plates Since the Sangam Period

Millets formed a major part of the food people in rural areas consumed until recently. In fact, in remote villages of Tamil Nadu, food items made of millets were staple…

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Read more about the article Indigenous diets can help fight modern illnesses, say health experts. <br> Traditional food consumed by rural communities contain nutrients that are lacking in high and middle-income countries
Indigenous edible plants of Meghalaya

Indigenous diets can help fight modern illnesses, say health experts.
Traditional food consumed by rural communities contain nutrients that are lacking in high and middle-income countries

Unprecedented levels of chronic non-communicable diseases are prompting calls to revert to the diets of our ancestors to regain lost nutrients. It is believed that such a shift would help…

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Traditional food consumed by rural communities contain nutrients that are lacking in high and middle-income countries
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Cooks – The Hidden Change Agents

by Rahul Antao 27000. This is the number of meals I have eaten in my life far. How do we come to this number? We all eat approximately 1000 meals…

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