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SRISTI Presents SATVIK 2004 Traditional Food Festival
Days
28-29 February, 2004
Saturday-Sunday
Time
10.00
am to 10.00 pm
Venue
Indian
Institute of Management,
Vastrapur, Ahmedabad
Organiser
SRISTI
Behind Pharmacy Mess, Boys Hostel Campus,
Gujarat University, Ahmedabad-380009
Tel.: 079-7913293, 7912792
E-mail: honeybee@sristi.org
SRISTI proposes to organise SATVIK 2004, a traditional food festival on
28-29 February 2004 at the premises of the Indian Institute of Management
(IIM), Ahmedabad, India. Apart from celebrating the richness of traditional
food in India this festival also commemorates the fourth foundation day of
SRISTI’s sister organisation National
Innovation Foundation (NIF).
You
are cordially invited to participate in the festival to make this event a
success.
Objectives
of the Food Festival
·
To
prepare food items from minor millets like ragi,
banti, bavto, kodra,
etc., which are now unknown to the urban consumers but were a part of our
traditional food and are rich in nutrition.
·
To
revive the use of such millets and other grains by serving the visitors
millet dishes and providing them with the recipes of these dishes so that
millets are established once again as part of the staple food even among
urban population. It will help conserve these millets which are otherwise
almost on the verge of extinction.
·
To
promote diverse rural cuisines among the urban masses. The dishes which will
be served in the festival were selected during recipe contests organised by
SRISTI in rural areas over a period of time.
·
To
make the visitors aware of the availability of organic products in the
market. Unlike the generally consumed food, which is grown using chemical
fetilisers and poisonous pesticides, the ingredients -- cereals, pulses,
spices, vegetables oil, jaggery, etc. -- used in the food for the festival
will be mostly organically grown.
·
To
provide a platform for the organic farmers of Gujarat, especially from its
dry regions, to sell their products directly to the consumers.
·
To
generate awareness about diverse healthy and nutritious food, particularly
among women and children.
Diversified
Products
->
Diversified
Food
->
Healthy
Life
->Healthy
Mind
=
SATVIK
2004
Key
Attractions of the Food Festival
·
Exhibition
of organic cuisine, including more than 35 nutritious dishes like matla
undhiyu, whole mung samosa,
Kathiawadi food, rotis of Sorghum,
bajra, maize and nagli maize
halwa, pakoda, khichu, Punjabi,
south Indian and Chinese items.
·
Recipe
contest for urban women based on the minor millets and uncultivated and
lesser known herbs, etc.
·
Arrangement
for the organic producers to sell their products directly to the consumers.
·
Learn
with Fun: educational exhibition for students and visitors.
·
Cultural
programmes, video shows in the evening, jingle contests for children during
day, discussion among the farmers, etc.
·
Exhibition
and sale of the literature on organic farming and environment.
Note
·
Well-wishers,
who purchase food coupons worth Rs 100 in advance will get another food
coupon worth Rs. 10 as a gift.
·
Inquire
with SRISTI for stall booking and recipe contests, through email or
telephone.
SRISTI
and the Honey Bee Network, set up by Prof.
Anil K Gupta of IIM, Ahmedabad, have been engaged in scouting,
documenting and conserving the traditional knowledge in India for the last
one and a half decades. SRISTI has promoted many grassroots innovators and
traditional knowledge holders up to the national and the international
levels, who have solved many problems existing in their immediate
surroundings. SRISTI has also organised 12 shodh
yatras (http://www.sristi.org/first%20shodhyatra.htm) so far and covered
more than 2,000 kilometres on foot. During these yatras we have honoured
nearly 600 innovators and traditional knowledge holders in their own
villages. SRISTI has also organised many biodiversity contests among the
schoolchildren to generate awareness for environment and support its
conservation.
SRISTI
has started documenting the wisdom and knowledge of the women who have
passed the age of hundred. It also documents the knowledge of farmers who
practice sustainable agriculture. Based on this knowledge the SRISTI
laboratory has developed some value added herbal veterinary medicines as
well as crop growth promoters and anti-feedants.
In
Gujarat, many farmers have shifted to organic farming with the help of
SRISTI. SRISTI provides organisational support to PARAKH
to promote organic food. PARAKH seeks to create marketing opportunities for
organic farmers.
The
NIF has been maintaining a National Register of Traditional and Indigenous
Knowledge from all the corners of India since its establishment in 2000. It
has also been organising periodic contests to scout innovations for the last
four years. In 2002 the president of India Dr A P J Abdul Kalam presented
the awards to the innovators.
GIAN,
a sister organisation of SRISTI, assists grassroots innovators in filing
patents, protecting their intellectual property rights and value addition
and technical modification of innovations to make them commercially viable
product.
There
are other organisations based in Karnataka, Tamil Nadu, Kerala and Orissa
which work on similar ideas as members of the Honey Bee Network.
Supporting
organisations
IIM,
PARAKH, NIF, GIAN,
Jatan, Janpath, Gram Vidyapiths of Gujarat, SEWA, Local Organic Farmers’
Organisations (Sajiv Kheti Mandal), Vikalp, etc. |
