Farming
Advances
The current mainstream development discourse is riddled with a series of insecurities that burden the farming community. We truly believe that the damage done in the name of ‘farming advances’ can be repaired only by handing back the leadership to farmers, women and the excluded who through their awesome knowledge of farming and nature can bring back sanity to our development thinking.
It is against this background that we must notice and endorse the eminent role millets can play in reinvigorating the agricultural sector. Food, farming, water, energy, climate change-name the crisis, and test the resourcefulness of millets to respond to it-you will be in for a revelation. One just wonders why our development thinkers and policy planners have failed to notice the awesome range of millet magic!
Thus, our goal is to regain the lost place for millet crops in India to empower the poor majority of India most of who are dalits, adivasis and women.
MINI’s Vision
The millet-growing communities of India, who form the poorest 60% of the Indian population, have been strengthened and acknowledged. Their right to nutritious food, sustainable livelihoods, dignity, health and cultural heritage is ensured. Their marginalisation has been overcome by reclaiming millets into the farming and policy landscape of India.
