people take all the challenges of the world with their human fighting goes. to the place who would face off from never mind you look at those 2 problems and make them one solution to the new season of sounders bentley. this week on double. the pandemic has inadvertently brought families closer together especially at the dinner table the lockdown has also dropped to the fed on the need to rely on locally available produce and food obvious king at a fundamental shift in not a nation ship with food that's what we talk about today hello welcome to eco india . coming to you from the streets of removed by for the last few months my family

has been experimenting with cooking with my grandmother's recipes largely because a lot of the ingredients have been very easily accessible to us that means very little. and a lot of coconut and rice and not just we met in bangor who before that is encouraging his community to tell unique project don't do local and seasonal food. a typical traditional indian meat rice parade so with a variety of side dishes each made up of a number of ingredients. but as india has so too has the weights people eat meals have become foster easier and much less diverse with many ingredients even being flown in from around the world a study found that around a 3rd of what it means eat comes from abroad.

as a campaigner for the revival of traditional food a mother of 2 she set up a gardener for the palace she grows through and vegetables. from limes and tomatoes and ginger much of it's native to india it fulfills almost all her needs. it's a cycle in the us from my kitchen goes to the this and the rich to moves come to the kitchen. to gender and it's not just want to be able to feed herself and a family she grows more indigenous. seeds in an attempt to preserve and works with trying to do the same so what people do is the least. it's shared from god you don't get to. you don't get to see them in the market to. see. their family. the force behind the movement to save indigenous foodstuffs

is artist and god and so. he has founded a revival project called surge of poor countries it encourages people to grow locally and seasonal foods that have slowly disappeared from their lives actually this didn't change but they were going to begin building this so people then made in the big season they would add $15.00 to $20.00 kind of greens in one country now it has come to 2 or 3 types which most of them are buying from the shops and our shops are selling what farmers are growing and farmers are growing what people are selling c'mon runs a community garden on the outskirts of bungalows in the village of. holly it is filled with interesting crops that are hard to look at this is squashed ripe fruit used as a vegetable and cooking as a bottle. we have to break open the spa. the treasure is inside it is in the seeds. so you see it can be at least 10

people is a high limit i think. it can be i don't like. it can feed like 23 families. as foods with a better taste and flavor. talk to produce more nutritious food and vegetables many edible plants once grew around the village but will have lost the skills to harvest them. that the current generation doesn't know what is and is not a person they can't go in for us and we want to the the mr gordon brown the landscape is not clean anymore you see a lot of stray dogs lot of construction moving around and things like that so that is the reason actually i want to revive them. and it is not just learning to forage in past months at least 15 rule families have been inspired by the project they have started their own kitchen gardens that meet around 50 per cent of their daily needs. for good gendron growing their own food is something she enjoys doing

but with that income are in this village she can see how the garden project can be important in the larger scheme of things. you know a fact that the really just the farmers don't grow their own food it's more for the market so they're you know and he was taken to he had taken up this project to make them grow they don't forget and so it was i was more than happy to we create. all do it might not be so important to our livelihood gender has found another sense of purpose to her garden. it has changed me as a person. since i'm also working. for. so i have this kitchen garden has helped me is a main distress. it has helped me to unwind at the end of the day no matter how busy the day has been so i don't know the day a few minutes going and sitting in the garden just looking at the plants and

everything i just made a lot of change to my mind and body she hopes through the project more people are able to eat healthier and learn to respect traditional systems of food again. not india is an agrarian country but the appeal to be a farmer and practice agriculture for a living has been steadily decreasing for the last many years many of the 100000000 migrant workers who move from their villages to find work in indian cities used to be farmers the pandemic has thrown life out of balance for many of them some are now thinking of giving farming another. renderer sing about how it is doing well driving a tractor but much of the rest is new to him. all of a sudden this spring he became an organic farmer working on his father's farm and wrote just on what he is building a greenhouse. this pond is to collect rainwater the rains begin in

july in this desert landscape securing a supply of water is crucial and he has so far invested 7000 euros in his new career many of it bottomed out there meaning if we had to have almost one and a half hectares of land on which i have built a poly house and dug a pond or the work of the plastic sheeting to line the pond is yet to be completed i'm farming the remaining land open it could be getting. he is now back in his home village of out on cup after more than 4 years in the big city there he was a textiles merchant now it seems like another life. he ran a shop in surat with his brother selling fabric. then from one day to the next their livelihood was gone. it was a story true for millions of migrant workers across india.

their theocrat all of a sudden the coronavirus spread it ruined our business we ended up with nothing with a lockdown no movement was allowed no public transport but somehow with great difficulty we managed to get back to our village. his parents were happy to have them back home they are pleased that now render wants to stay and they are keen to support him as much as they can. i'm retiring in 2 months time i'm giving my entire fortune to my son he should prosper here in his native land where will he go to when i can whine about it i was sad when he left to work in the city. the son has applied to the government for a farming subsidy but it could be months until it's approved and paid out other farmers are offering useful advice. about how it plans to grow fruit and vegetables here it came out i'm chowdhury is a key source of useful advice he has already helped 300 other farmers to build

greenhouses and adopt organic farming methods. instead of pesticides he recommends plastic sheeting to kill weeds and other unwelcome guests. yet this sheikh was fixed here a month and a half ago for soil solarization to control wields soil borne pathogens and pests by covering the moist soil. chowdhury advises colleagues for free for many poor farmers he is the only source of information about new farming methods he also teaches the basics. but the other thing is to get well versed in crop and plant diseases and new farmers need to stay abreast of the markets so their crops can command good prices but at that 1 . $400.00 greenhouses have already gone up around the village chowdhury also explains how farming can flourish when you take

a circular closed loop or holistic approach. the ponds not only supply water they are also fish farms and thus provide another source of income drip irrigation is efficient and doesn't use much water the technology was developed in israel where it is widely used. to meet it and they're saying this mini israel in my village has given me confidence to turn to farming i am now sure that agriculture is a very lucrative business and organic farming is most profitable. he is enthusiastic about his prospects as an organic farmer. his brother however plans to go back to the big city. or look what i've done i have decided not to return to surat because i will earn more here give me i'm sure it will be twice the amount i used to earn from all over the one a bit like a mobile phone or read interesting by how much the kopechne 1000 crisis has opened

up new opportunities if all goes well his new career will benefit not only his family but also the environment. there was a time when chickens were only seen scratching in the countryside so long to open spaces that's no longer the case of the us backyard chickens are popping up in suburbs and cities and now the pandemic may ensure that this trend is here to stay . pretty. bossy. trudy is feisty. and mary lays an egg every day. the 4 hens have been guests at the home of felicity of burckhardt and trader of angler in the northern suburbs of berlin for a year now this is how it came to pass. as a capsule i mean guns inside then more meant just that and i was once stuck in

a traffic jam on support and there was a livestock transporter in front of me. dispensed a tad towards that goal me thinking about what kind of lives on the molds leads on the net and if one could give at least a few really good life as they had off almost i wanted to get to know how chickens lived and he didn't and since we have a garden i thought they'd feel right at home here. by this because they would have plenty to eat and they'd also give us many us have been doing funding. their diet consists of grains and fresh greens but also kitchen waste. in the summertime the hens lay an egg almost every day. and to the south of berlin schmidt an environmental engineer by profession took up chicken breeding 4 years ago he rents out the offspring of a man who has been rising and not just during the coronavirus crisis. could get no

more going to the. keys nor the scum dollar keep seeing scandals in the food industry or you don't start with the bad eggs animal store sprayed with toxins that end up in food but if you were to go even my antibiotics and chicken pigs and cattle. would not come moments away every time that happens people stop and think for a moment before what are we doing what are we eating. berlin is home to almost 4000000 people and the growing number of chickens some big city 2. come from the countryside and find that having a feathery friend reminds them of home. but chicken love can turn sour more and more abandoned birds are found wandering the city streets this animal shelter has its work cut out. as a small fuel it sounds great to get fresh eggs from your own head on your right

balcony the problem is most people have no idea how to look after chickens properly what they need to be happy how every species has its special needs chickens in the in a city or in my own stance or in my view. if they don't belong on a balcony on the 11th floor they need space a yard imagine that it will. my ts smith does most of his business with clients in the suburbs who have gardens. he rents out for hands with a big cage stall equipment and feed for about $300.00 euros a month. the gun family considers it educational as we wanted to show the children where food comes from the animal products don't just appear in the supermarket so this is one small way to bring the matter home to them literally where things come from meat from chickens and also

eggs. went to chick started in the united states but it's catching on in many parts. of the ts smith also rents to kindergarten schools and old people's homes. and trudy ilsa and mary however are for keeps but they also risk getting eaten when the time comes their designated dual purpose poultry giving eggs and meat but will their foster parents actually do the deed. is go. into i don't think you'll ever be able to slaughter a chicken at least not any of our 4 if we call them by their names we couldn't do it we're very fond of them. so these 4 birds ended up with softies others aren't so lucky. another advantage of keeping chickens

watching them can be very very calming. like this something the germans are very serious about it's brit in fact job and even on doing this course in tangible cultural heritage but in recent years the franchise because have been growing at a few wanted fewer traditional businesses that big. in some parts of the country but a whole community. traditional because but help is on its way and it's called bread off expedition vehicle we join the one of the 4 the pandemic restrictions were put in place. and fake. and his elite troops take heavy equipment into what they call the bread desert. their mission to supply this thinly populated region good decent great. bakery situation brandenberg

a serious more and more small craft businesses are closing down. that forces people to depend on discount retailers and i wouldn't say that the discounters threat is all that good. something had to be done before. the objective today is these in a small town of just under $6000.00 north of ben and even here freshly baked bread is a rarity this is a job for the bread as it expedition vehicle a mobile bakery once used by the military in neutral switzerland where the need was probably not quite as an agent. the swiss had 168 of these vehicles about one for every part of their army they were meant to supply the military in the field of course they've never been used since the army just exercised with them. in the early 2000 all these mobile bakeries were decommissioned and sold. and i got hold of number 130 in the.

space in the expedition vehicle has to be used. it has been needing machine. and a cast the rest is done by hand. you know discover has listed german bread culture as an intangible cultural heritage over 3000. on a daily basis but the bacon is the work fully in depend. we have declined over the past 60 years in germany from 55211000 big chain and in-store bakeries have taken their place often using ready mix dough with artificial additives fueling and don't be a girl uses only water flour and salt his recipe for sourdough is the secret to lactic acid bacteria and yeasts add flavor through fermentation that's the big big difference the acidification is hansen's the taste it's a totally different kind of bread a different food or. slowly undone bag-o.

also owns a stationary bakery in villain but he never actually trained to be a baker for almost 20 years he worked in logistics in australia switzerland and points in asia. he also met his wife in asia in 2015 they decided to open a bakery together. i was really really surprised how jerome and great i was like wow if we do open the big feet then you know that it's fine then this is a different lifestyle is something where we can both work together because in a previous job he was always he was a great we know so now this is like you know before all of us can do it together as a team all the great desert expedition vehicle accomplishes its mission it's on the road in brandenburg for 70 to 80 days a year mostly at markets and festival plesent seems to appreciate the fresh bread service as well. no preservatives but rather fresh natural and regional ingredients

that's the best thing you can do. with every foray into the bread there's that floatin down there comes closer to his goal good bread for him. for many of us food is pleasure it's a part of our culture and history but can you imagine food without water access to clean water is still a long. actually in some indian cities maybe lugo in south india for example is quickly drying up and with more and more people moving to the city the demand for water has increased multifold fortunately for bengal a group of waterboarding us has been silently working on providing water security to the city one recharge well at a time. every morning visits the tree outside his village. it's very special to him. the lake nearby that once knowledge that has just

a cliche. in he keeps the tree alive because it provides shade to his late wife was buried under. the sez i come every day to take care of this place. 3 almost died 20 years ago when i come every day to water it back i collect 20 buckets from the lake so my wife can rest in peace. and no one looks after it more than just me. i am belongs to the money over the community of well diggers. they live on the outskirts of bangalore city and have traditionally provided people with the access to water. in recent years this entire region has seen

a dramatic drop in water levels and the demand for welding has seen a corresponding decline. he says around 15 years ago there was a lot of work for us but these days there's very little of no one wants wells now they bore with machines that go deep into the ground and the demand for our services has fallen. with the. all the roads like this one once served as bangles main source of water. as the city developed and began to bring water into pipes from the river cavity but the supply is insufficient. to make up for the shortfall people began extracting water from aquifers underground with mechanized pumps. moreover the booming city is increasingly covered in concrete. rainwater can no longer seep in and replenish

the ground. the stress is immense bangalow is predicted to become unlivable by 2025. and signs of this crisis are everywhere. want to export. believes of the money over the community and the city can come together to help one another. he started a project to build a 1000000. that use the community's skills but this time to dig wells that put water back into the ground rather than extract it. is a picture from the rooftops traditionally off from strong water drains. and push it into bangalore has been to. find solutions to problems one of the solutions which is. logical security.

been flooding we have. the charge we have the matter what we have for the city would be in a solution space which would provide comfort to the city. people who like the idea have begun to high odama krishna and his team need to build recharge wells in their homes or complexes. together the money where those 1st dig a bit that is 20 feet deep and line it with forests and mentoring. this will eventually fill up which mean water also facade on off. into the ground. the entire community benefits as the ground water is eventually shared by the city . he says recharge wells of the link between green and the ground water grown water we love our work and no

matter how tough it is all we want to do is build wells but i only feel satisfied when the job is done. runs well. i was walking in bangalore the owner of the complex gave me a bit of water when i was about to waste what i didn't need when he stopped me and asked me whether i knew the value of water act and if they're going forward that's how we need to be and learn how to save water to get them especially rainwater that is the most precious while a new district where the new. so far the money orders have dug 113000 wells. they intend to dig 1000000. when the ground is really not wish they hope their livelihoods built flattish once again. look pandemic is proving to be a people for nearly every aspect of our lives and food contribution to be excluded from this tell us about what changes one making to your 4 habits right into was an

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