Projects

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The Locavore‘s Projects engage with challenges in the Indian food system. Through our projects, we hope to create long-lasting impact built on research, knowledge, and collaboration. With food at its heart, our work is multidimensional, intersecting with sustainability, communities and livelihoods, the climate crisis, and documenting culinary traditions.

February 2023 - ONGOING

Millet Revival Project

The Millet Revival Project, in collaboration with the Rainmatter Foundation, aims to reinvigorate our relationship with millets through research, events, community engagement, recipes, and impactful storytelling.
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August 2024 - ONGOING

Freedom From Hunger: A Collaborative Fundraising Project

Over 190 million Indians go to sleep on an empty stomach every night. This grim reality prompted us to launch 'Freedom from Hunger’, a fundraising initiative that actively supports hunger-relief organisations and their role in local food systems.
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December 2023 - Ongoing

‘Longing for Home Food’ Project

'A Longing for Home Food’ Project, an offshoot of the curation at the eighth edition of the Serendipity Arts Festival, is a listening experience cataloguing people’s oral food memories and recipes through conversations that invoke a familiar sense of home.
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15 December 2023 - 23 December 2023

Serendipity Arts Festival

Through an immersive Culinary Arts curation at one of South Asia’s largest multidisciplinary arts festivals, we encouraged visitors to reexamine their relationship with food and its many aspects, including memory and identity, farming practices, and how our food reaches our plates.
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February 2023 - September 2023

Worli Koliwada Project

The Worli Koliwada Project, a collaboration with the RPG Foundation, drew attention to an 800-year-old fishing village in Mumbai, its inhabitants, and their diverse foodways, along with helping find new ways of income-generation.
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