Keeping Indigenous wild food traditions alive in India | Global Ideas | DW
Keeping Indigenous wild food traditions alive in India With Indian forests under pressure, Indigenous communities are working to preserve knowledge of their diverse and nutritious diets. In the country's cities, urban consumers are also getting a taste for the crops. Wild edible plants have long been food staples for Indigenous communities in India One of Biskirin Marwein's earliest memories is of accompanying her mother to collect mushrooms, fruit and edible leaves from the lush forest near their Khasi Hills home in the north-east Indian state of Meghalaya. "Sometimes I saw a mushroom and...
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