The Future of India’s Wild Foods
This virtual session opened up a nuanced dialogue about the place of wild foods in our collective future—on our plates, in our policies, and within communities.
Beyond the Plate
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Understanding Millets and the Green Revolution
A session that looked to uncover just how nuanced and interlinked the history of the Green Revolution and millet cultivation in India is.
Understanding Millets and Marginalisation
Understanding Millets and Marginalisation addressed a host of exclusions,from new forms of agriculture that sideline indigenous knowledge, to diets that are far less diverse, and who can really access and afford certain grains now.
Jowar Gatha Film Screening and Discussion
While the discourse on millets has largely revolved around their benefits as a whole, what does it mean to explore a single variety like jowar (sorghum) and examine its impact on the communities that cultivate it?
Making Millets Desirable: Millets in Food Establishments
What are the challenges and opportunities surrounding millet consumption in rural and urban India? How can restaurants and businesses potentially work with the grains to make them exciting and accessible to consumers? This discussion attempted to address just that.
Millets: Reimagining the PDS for Food Sovereignty
A session focussed on understanding localised and decentralised approaches to the Public Distribution System in India that incorporate millets to better achieve food security and sovereignty.
Millets: Unveiling the Past, Nourishing the Future
One hears so much chatter about millets lately: they’re a superfood, they’re heritage grains, our hope for climate change. But what do we really know of them beyond the hype?
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