Kalikapur Slow Food Festival
centrestudies2023-07-01T14:14:27+00:00Community Revival Foundation and Basudha organized an open Slow Food Festival on the 15th February from 10 am to 8:30 pm. A dozen of heirloom rice varieties, and a plethora of varieties of eggplant, beans, millets, dioscorid tubers, etc were showcased and cooked for tasting by everyone. Small samples of rice...
Kashipur Food Diversity Fair
centrestudies2023-07-01T14:15:14+00:00A wide diversity of food crops - rice, beans, gourds, aubergines and tubers - were displayed and cooked. Most of the visitors, who arrived from different villages and towns, tasted these food items for the first time.
Kalikapur Music and Dance Fes
centrestudies2023-07-01T14:16:09+00:00Community Revival Foundation, Kalikapur, Kolkata - 99 Community Revival Foundation organized a festival of Jhumur songs, Baul songs and Chhou dance on the 6th Feb evening.
National Seed Savers’ Meet & Seed Festival
centrestudies2023-07-01T14:17:23+00:00Seed Savers from all over India met in New Delhi, to discuss strategies of in situ conservation of crop geentic diversity and the means to protect the farmers' intellectual property rights from biopirates. Seed savers displayed an amazing diversity of rice, millets, beans, aubergines, okra, tubers, and various other vegetables on the Aurobindo...
National Training for Rice Conservators Phase 3
centrestudies2023-07-01T14:18:23+00:00National Training in rice characterization. Supported by OFAI, Goa. Read report here Basudha, Odisha.
National Training in Rice Characterization Phase 2
centrestudies2023-07-01T14:19:08+00:00National Training for Rice Conservators - Phase II on Basudha farm. Read report here Basudha, Odisha.
Talk on Indigenous Food Systems
centrestudies2023-07-01T14:19:52+00:00D. Deb gave a presentation on Indigenous Food and Farming Systems to 500 tribal farmers from Koraput, Malkangiri, Rayagada, Navrangpur and Kalahandi districts at a farmers' program Koraput. Koraput
Training for indigenous farmers
centrestudies2023-07-01T14:21:01+00:00D. Deb gave training to 80 farmers of Rayagada district in techniques of on-farm conservation of local rice land races. Basudha, Odisha