Indian Farmers Are Building Food Forests to Fight Climate Change, Agrarian Crisis
Published on 30-01-2019
Villupuram, Tamil Nadu: While Amazon rainforests remain the world’s largest intact forest, according to recent research, the seemingly untouched forests were in fact manmade food forests. For thousands of years, humans were dependent on forests for food. In time, villages and farms replaced forests.
However, unprecedented climate change is causing a rethink on the way we grow our food. More and more farmers in India are looking at resilient food forests to sustain themselves, with reduced irrigation needs and improved productivity – and to help the country through the current agrarian crisis. Read more