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Discovering the Black Baza Coffee

8 March 2022 Arshiya Urveeja Bose

Black Baza Coffee was created with the purpose of empowering smallholder producers to grow coffee through biodiversity-friendly practices. The idea emerged as an outcome of Founder, Arshiya Bose’s doctoral research project. A human geographer, Arshiya completed her Ph.D. from the University of Cambridge, in the UK, on market incentives for conserving biodiversity – she used …

What way forward for Indian farming?

22 February 2021 Jack Coulton & Kumud Dadlani

The protests provoked by the 2020 Indian agriculture acts, initiated—but not yet implemented—by the government in September of last year, are far from over. The general strike in November 2020, which involved 250 million people, was probably the largest single protest in human history1. While the world media continues in search of the latest breaking …

The battle for the future of Indian farming

22 January 2021 Wil McLean

How many farmers are there in India? Not even the government knows, but it’s estimated to be around 145 million families, with estimates ranging from around 40% to as much as 60% of the population—and even taking the low estimate, that’s more farmers than Europe and all the Americas combined. But unlike the farming models …

Indigenous Terra Madre: The Role of Youth, Women, and Ancient Methods

13 October 2019 Jack Coulton

On the third day of Indigenous Terra Madre Asia & Pan-Pacific in Ainu Mosir, the spotlight turned to the role of youth, women and ancient technologies in indigenous food systems.

Indigenous Terra Madre Welcomes the Slow Food Nagaland Community

26 September 2019

From October 11 to 14, 2019, Indigenous Terra Madre Asia and Pan-Pacific will be held in Hokkaido, Japan, the native land of the Ainu people. Over 200 indigenous leaders from 27 countries will share their traditional knowledge and raise awareness of how indigenous peoples’ sustainable food systems can play a key role in addressing global …

Chef’s Alliance Recipe – Smoked Pork with Axone – Joel Basumatari

21 September 2018

Joel Basumatari is a chef from India and a member of the Slow Food Chefs’ Alliance. Here he presents his recipe for for smoked pork with fermented soy beans known as axone.

Swapping Guns for Forks – India’s First Slow Food Community Launches in Nagaland

28 August 2018

On August 15, 2018, India welcomed its first Slow Food community. The new Slow Food Nagaland Community was launched alongside the Slow Food Youth Network Nagaland, under the able guidance of long-time Slow Food activist and member of the Slow Food Chefs’ Alliance, Joel Basumatari. After forging a successful career as a chef in London, …

India: a land of gifts and burden

13 June 2017 Rifka Verma

“Agriculture is the most healthful, most useful and most noble employment of man,” as George Washington once said. Yet these words of wisdom have not percolated through the complex web of policies, debts and diminishing land that characterize the Indian Agricultural System today. The statistics hit hard: over a quarter million Indian farmers have committed …