Spending Sowing Day with Elubai and Govind Bhaiyya
‘Spending Sowing Day with Elubai and Govind Bhaiyya’ (2024) by Laxminarayan Devda for the Millet Revival Project by The Locavore in association with the Rainmatter Foundation.
Madhya Pradesh
Following Women Foragers into the Sal Forests of Madhya Pradesh
For a fleeting window each monsoon, women from the Baiga community venture into the sal forests in the central Indian landscape to gather wild harvest, especially putpura—edible wild mushrooms—that appear for just 15 to…
Network for Conserving Central India
Formed in 2014 out of the Kanha-Pench Landscape Symposium, the Network for Conserving Central India (NCCI) is a research-practice network dedicated to the Central Indian Highlands.
Women in Parched Bundelkhand Villages are Pioneering Water Conservation Efforts
‘Women in Parched Bundelkhand Villages are Pioneering Water Conservation Efforts’ (Jal Saheli) (2024) is a 13-minute Hindi-language documentary by Down To Earth.
“Our elders say, if you never put an axe to a mahua tree, it won’t let a person go hungry”
—Kalabai Merawi, 45, Kannai village, Madhya Pradesh
What Are Seeds, When Not Sold?
Oishika Roy explores experiences of seed savers and scientists to gather proof of relationships between people and seeds beyond that of money: generational, and through the principle of commons.