Food and farming systems

This is a concise summary of the practice of using biological agents like insects as pest control in organic farms. In brief and easy to understand...

Debal Deb is a celebrated activist and ‘rice warrior’ of India. In 25 years, he has managed to procure and conserve in his seed bank 1420 native...

More than 60 years ago, when he was a child, farmer Peter Andrews saw his first dust storm. He still remembers it. “The noise was horrendous,” he says...

Increasing temperatures, changing monsoon and more frequent extreme climate events are posing a threat to food security in India. A new study has...

I recently had the opportunity to interview Masahiko Yamada, formerly Japan´s Minister of Agriculture and now one of the country´s foremost food...

Government Must Make Organic Certification Accessible For All, Before Making it Mandatory – Other Better Ways of Weeding Out Fake Organic Should Be...

Food has been a network of relationships which has evolved over time in a geographical context! Traditional food recipes have woven in folk wisdom...

The eco-feminine tends to be subtle, dispersed all over and non-monetised. Like Nature, women and their offerings are externalised in the economic...

In August last year, I spent nearly two weeks in Uttarakhand. For the most part, I ate on the go – in roadside dhabas, train stations, and guesthouses...

Devinder Sharma writes on the dangers of food shipped across continents – grown in one, processed and repacked elsewhere and shipped back to the...

On that day in 1999, Michael Mudd, vice president of Kraft, did “the unthinkable” during his speech — he drew a connection between processed foods and...

You use hing (asafoetida) in your cooking, but do you know what it actually is? No? Then go and find out.

This challenge was given to a group of 25...

If you’re seeking some good news during these troubled times, look at the ecologically sound ways of producing food that have percolated up from the...

In this article, the author takes us through her own journey with veganism. She talks about the people, books and documentaries that inspired her and...

This is a brief and inspiring story of the work of Padma-Shri honourees from Odisha who run Sambhav, an organic farming resource centre. Radha Mohan...

This article takes a critical look at the advocacy of protein rich diets. The author takes us through what our real protein needs are and what are the...