India trip and Navdanya

A description of my field trip with the University of Gastronomic Sciences to India where we spent much of our time seeing the work of Navdanya, an organisation promoting environmentally and economically sustainable practices for small farmers.

Delhi and clean traffic

I had only been in India once before, in Hyderabad in the south. I remembered there being a big problem with traffic pollution – old, poorly maintained vehicles belching lots of smoke.
After arrival in Delhi a couple of weeks back, it took me a little while to notice the absence of this problem there. [...]