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- 1. Mother and child nutrition among the Chakhesang tribe
- 2. Nutritional status, food insecurity, and biodiversity among the Khasi
- 3. School Garden Manual
- 4. Changing gender roles and relations in food provisioning among matrilineal Khasi and patrilineal Chakhesang Indigenous rural People of NE India
- 5. Nutritional Manual for School MDM Programs
- 6. ABD and Priority Food Plants for School MDM Programs
- 7. Landscape Resilience in Khweng and Umsawwar communities
- 8. Identifying Stress Tolerant Crops in NE India
- 9. Value chain of Eri Silk “Ryndia”
- 10. Land Tenure System and Landlessness in Meghalaya
- 11. Bushmeat- The Hidden Dangers
- 12. Best Practice in IFS of Meghalaya
- 13. Indigenous food promotion-Dietary Diversity
- 14. Assessment of WASH Interventions
- 15. Dietary Diversity Score Analysis in Ri-Bhoi
- 16. Disaster Management Act 2005 Analysis
- 17. Agrobiodiversity and Priority Food Plants for Inclusion in the School MDM Program
- 18. Participatory Mapping of Agrobiodiversity 2019
- 19. Market survey for assessing demand of organic food
- 20. Pollinators study and Indigenous pollinators network
- 21. Analysis of Barriers Affecting Children and Mothers’ Nutrition and Health Status
- 22. Dietary diversity and its determinants among Khasi and Garo indigenous women (15 to 49 years) in Meghalaya, northeast India
- 23. The White/Wiphala Paper on Indigenous Peoples’ food systems
- 24. Indigenous Peoples’ food systems
- 25. Report on dietary diversity survey 2019
- 26. Household Food Insecurity Access Scale
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Mei-Ramew Cafe inaugurated in Cham Cham (East Jaintia Hills)
Luh Dkhar, headman of Cham Cham community located in Khliehriat Block (East Jaintia Hills), inaugurated the first Mei-Ramew Café in the area on November 30, 2020. It may be mentioned here that all government SOPs were followed during the programme.
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Tagged Cafe, community, food, jaintia hills, Mei-Ramew Cafe, Recipes
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World Food Day: Indigenous Food for Healthy Diets
According to the United Nations Food and Agriculture Organisation, over 820 million people — approximately one in nine people from around the world — were hungry and suffered from malnutrition and affected one in every three people. Every year, on October … Continue reading
First ever Mei-Ramew Rice Festival by NESFAS
NESFAS organized it’s first ever ‘Mei-Ramew Rice Festival’ on 13th March 2019 at Liarsluid, Ri-Bhoi. Nine communities from Umling and Bhoirymbong C&RD Block, Ri-Bhoi, Meghalaya worked together to commemorate and promote the importance of this staple food. This event aimed … Continue reading
Posted in Urban Youth Farming Programme
Tagged food, local food, Mei-Ramew Food Festival, Rice Festival
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NESFAS Held its First Ever Mei-Ramew Market in town
On 7th April 2017, NESFAS hosted its first ever Mei-Ramew Market, (Mei-Ramew means Mother Earth in the native Khasi language) which connected the people with local farmers in a mutually beneficial exchange. The event gave locals a rare chance to … Continue reading
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Tagged community, event, farmers, food, indigenous, Khweng, local, Meghalaya, Nongtraw
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In an impressive fossil fuels travel day, I left the Standing Rock reservation and flew to Italy for the International Slow Food gathering known as Terra Madre. A world congress of harvesters, farmers, chefs and political leaders, this is basically … Continue reading
AN ALTERNATIVE DEVELOPMENT PARADIGM
By Phrang Roy Indigenous peoples constitute one of the largest excluded and marginalized peoples of the world. Their population around the world is estimated to be around 370 million, more than the total US population of 311 million and more … Continue reading
