NESFAS and its communities have been regarded as guardians of the Indigenous FoodSystems (IFS) for the continued work to promote and conserve the traditional food systems and the agrobiodiversity that supports these systems.
As part of the ‘Festival of Scope for all Science Communication Popularisation and its Extension’ the State Council Science Technology & Environment (SCSTE), Meghalaya celebrated National Science Day at All Saints Hall Shillong, on the 28th of February 2022. There, the SCSTE gave away the prizes for the Short Videography Competition on the theme ‘Indigenous Technologies of Meghalaya’.
An Indigenous Youth Fellowship Programme at the local level was conducted for a period of one month in April this year; it stried to empower local communities to acknowledge the Indigenous Food Systems (IFS) and simultaneously to safeguard and preserve the agricultural practices for the overall well-being of the communities.