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How can youth contribute in transforming local food cultures: Integrated Mountain Initiative webinar

An online webinar was organised by the Integrated Mountain Initiative on the occasion of International Youth Day on August 12, 2021. The event highlighted the local food cultures across the Indian Himalayan Region and the need to transform our food systems and food cultures. Dr. Bandana Shakya, Agrobiodiversity Specialist, ICIMOD, and Mr. Janak Preet Singh, Sr. Associate, Livelihoods, NESFAS were the keynote speakers of this session where they highlighted Food Systems as interdisciplinary and game-changing solutions to ensure sustainability. Continue reading

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Urban Youth Farming Programme

A special focus area for NESFAS in the facilitating of community is to empower local communities to celebrate and defend their diverse food and agriculture practices and to have a say at local, Regional, National and International levels. NESFAS also strive to promote the importance of local agricultural practices for livelihood and well-being of communities. It does so by connecting people to the pleasure and importance of local food. 

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Umsawwar takes step forward in achieving a chemically free farming system

Community members of Umsawwar have now opened up their journey to exercising a chemically free approach to agriculture after the intervention of community leaders from the area. Through a series of awareness campaigns organized by NESFAS, Agroecology Learning Circle (ALC), … Continue reading

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Mei-Ramew Phawar Competition- Mawkynrew

  Mei-Ramew Phawar Competition Bonding one community with another and most importantly, bringing the youth together under one platform to express their views and thoughts on issues concerning indigenous food ways, environment, culture and people, through their ‘Phawars’. Date: 25 … Continue reading

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NESFAS to foster a glocal partnership by hosting the TIP Fellowship Programme 2019

Subsequent to the success of the Indigenous Youth Fellowship Programme in 2017, NESFAS, a local indigenous organisation, will host the programme for 2019 while bearing most of the cost of this hosting locally and nationally, making it a truly local-global partnership … Continue reading

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ITM on Campus

nesfas in collaboration with Synod College organized an exhibition cum presentation titled, “Conversations with the Earth: Indigenous Voices on Climate Change” on the 3rd and 4th of November 2015 at Dinam Hall, Shillong. The Chief Guest for the occasion was … Continue reading

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