While documenting seed preservation practices within households and community seed banks in the villages of Umsawwar and Nongwah in Meghalaya, Queeneerich Kharmawlong and Ibapdianghun Myria realise that the women doing i…
The North East Society for Agroecology Support (NESFAS) is a Meghalaya-based organisation working to sustain Indigenous Peoples' Food Systems across the Northeast.
‘Effects of Drought on Livelihoods and Gender Roles: A case of Meghalaya’ (2013) by Ram Singh, Feroze Mohammad Sheikh, and Lala I.P. Ray for the Indian Journal of Gender Studies.
‘Ambi Jiji’s Retirement’ (2007) is a 29-minute Garo-language documentary by Nandini Bedi, produced by Rajiv Mehrotra.
Randa Papiah, Toy Sumer, and Hunlang Papiah recall their memories of catching dohthli (snakehead fish) in the paddy fields of Meghalaya during the rice harvesting season.
—Ibadapmon Barim, 32, Khweng village, Meghalaya
At Mei-Ramew Café in Khweng village, Dial Muktieh’s knowledge of home-cooked meals shines through her indigenous ways of cooking and use of locally available ingredients. Photo by Team Locavore.
Certain food memories linger in a community’s collective consciousness long after the food itself may have disappeared from people’s plates and farmers’ fields. Sohel Sarkar writes on the farming songs and rituals that h…