make up your own mind. double. the pandemic has inadvertently brought families closer together especially at the dinner table the lockdown has also dropped in the fold on the need to rely on locally available produce and food obviously you can get a fundamental shift in other nations should put forth that's what we talk about to me 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 grandmas recipes largely because a lot of the ingredients have been very easily accessible to us that means we're ready to pasta and noodles 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 fault . is. a typical traditional indian meat rice upgrade so with a variety of side dishes each made up of a number of ingredients. but as india has used 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 100 of board indians eat comes from abroad.

and as a campaign for the revival of traditional food a mother of 2 she set up a god in the for the powers she grows through and vegetables. from lines introduced to tomatoes and ginger much of it's made if doing it for fills almost all her needs . it's a cycle in the waste from my kitchen goes to the tennis and it's come to get. the gender and does not just want to be able to feed herself and her family she grows the indigenous seeds in an attempt to preserve them and works with others who are trying to do the same so what people do is the least. it's shared. 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 poorer countries it encourages people to grow locally and seasonal foods that have slowly disappeared from their lives actually this didn't change but they don't get events began getting less so people when they're made in the big season they would add $15.00 to $20.00 kind of greens in one county now it has come to 2 or 3 types which most of them are buying from the shops and the 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 of good we have to break open the spatio. the treasure is inside it isn't the seeds. so you can get at least 10

people there's a high limit i think and. it can be i don't like. it can feel like 23 families. as foods with a better taste and flip. seeds talk to produce more nutritious fruit and vegetables many edible plants grew around the village but will litters have lost the skills to harvest them. but the current generation doesn't know what is and is not a person they can go in for us and we want to give the mission to go and run the landscape is not clean anymore you see a lot of stray dogs a 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 to real families have been inspired by the project they have started their own kitchen gardens to 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. 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 with. freedom house and so i have this kitchen garden has helped me is i mean these. it has helped me to unwind and the end of the day no matter how busy the day has been so i don't know if the day a few minutes going and sitting in the garden just looking at the plants and

everything has 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 natural and traditional systems of food again. now 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 singer 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 raw 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 i'm open to have to get in. he is now back in his home village of out on cup ons 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.

this got 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 will he go to iraq and 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. 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 we needs 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 not 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. any needed and they saying this mini israel in my village has given me confidence to turn to farming i am now assured 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. look what i've done i have decided not to return to surat because i will earn more here i'm sure it will be twice the amount i used to earn from all over the went to bed. for a regular sing by how much the kopechne $1000.00 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 becky and scratching in the countryside so wanted by wast open spaces that's no longer the case of the us backyard chickens are popping up in suburbs and cities and while the pandemic may ensure that this trend is here to stay. is is 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 in favor of angler in the northern suburbs of berlin for a year now this is how it came to pass. as a capsule i know guns inside them more meant just that and i was once stuck in

a traffic jam to get some support and there was a livestock transporter in front of me. a fence to tack towards that got me thinking about what kind of lives animals 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. and they would have plenty to eat and they'd also give us many us that have been doing funding. their diet consists of grands and fresh greens but also kitchen waste. in the summertime the hens lay an egg almost every day. and to the south of berlin mathias schmidt an environmental engineer by profession took up chicken breathing 4 years ago he rents out the offspring of a man who's been rising and not just during the coronavirus crisis. supremum are

going to. these normal scam dollar we keep seeing scandals in the food industry. after the bad eggs animal stalls sprayed with toxins that end up in food that you would to god in your mind he biopics in chicken pigs and cattle. with moments away every time that happens people stop and think for a moment what are we doing what are we eating. berlin is home to almost 4000000 people and the growing number of chickens some big city dwellers 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 this commitment to yes i'm off

a few hours it sounds great to get fresh eggs from your own head on your own balcony the problem is most people have no idea how to look after chickens probably what they need to be happy how every species has its special needs chickens in the in a city or in my own starter in my view need food and if they don't belong on a balcony on the 11th floor they need space a yard imagine that it was. 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. of the. 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. rented chicks 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 low trudi elites 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. 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 c.d.'s about it's brit in fact german print is even on to miss school intangible cultural heritage list but in recent years the franchise because have been growing at a few one in fewer traditional businesses the big. in some parts of the country but a whole community is traditional because but help is on its way and it's called bread off expedition vehicle we join the one of the for the pandemic restrictions were put in place. if they can on then leave no. and his elite troops take heavy equipment into what they call the bread desert brandenburg their mission to supply this thinly populated region with decent great. moment bakery situation brandenberg

a serious more and more small craft businesses are closing down. that forces people to depend on discount retailers but i wouldn't say that the discounters threat is all that good. something had to be done. for. the objective today's decent a small town of just under 6000 north of 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 knew to switzerland where the need was probably not quite says an agent. who tried to help the swiss have 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 the army just exercised with them. in the early 2000 all these mobile bakeries were decommissioned and sold. and i got

a call that number 130. space in the expedition vehicle has to be used up to many it has a meeting machine a water tank and a gas and the rest is done by hand. unesco has listed german bread culture as an intangible cultural heritage over 3000 varieties of baked on a daily basis but the bakers who work freely independently have to climbed 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. that uses only flour and salt his recipe for sourdough. it's a secret the 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 they're bred a different food or. clothing and don't bag-o.

also owns a stationary bike reinvent but you never actually train to be a banker for most 20 years he worked in the just sticks 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 germans love great i was like wow if we do open the big 3 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 we was always he was a great wheeler so now this is like going over 4 of us can do it together as a team the great desert expedition vehicle accomplishes its mission it's on the road in brandenburg from 70 to 80 days a year mostly at markets and festivals byzantines seems to appreciate the fresh bread service as well one of the almost 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 flew him down there comes closer to his goal good bread full . 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 luxury in some indian cities been through ringback in south india for example is quickly drying up and with more and more people who are going to the city the demand for water has increased multi ford fortunately for bending with 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 one's not listed as just

a cliche. and he keeps the tree alive because it provides shade to his late wife who is buried under. the says i come every day to take care of this place. almost died 20 years ago and i come every day to water it but i collect 20 buckets from the lake so my wife can rest in peace. and no one looks after it more than just me. if. 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 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 what kind of mess with it. open 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 bangalore 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. where does he sit big 3 more from the rooftop traditionally or from strong water great food. and push it into bangalore has been to. find solutions to problems one of the solutions which is. going to go to the for security

the quicker we get these 1000000. been flooding we have. the charge we have in 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 to build recharge wells in their homes or complexes. to gather the money for those 1st dig a pit that is 20 feet deep and line it with forest cement rings. this will eventually fill up with rainwater also office and on off which will percolate 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 ground water we love our work and no matter how tough it is all we want to do is build wells but the

little model 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 you're going for one that's how we need to be and learn how to see of water to get them especially rainwater that is the most precious one in a 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 be with for nearly every aspect of our lives and food continuity be excluded from this tell us about what changes one making to your food habits right into as an eco

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