The Climate’s Harvest

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It does not taste the same anymore. There was a pause at the table when someone said it. Not worse, not spoilt. Just thinner. As if something had quietly shifted.

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On the Konkan coast, food has always carried memory. Farmers, fisherfolk, and home cooks trusted the rhythm of rain, heat, soil, and sea. Taste was proof that the season had unfolded as it should.

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Now those rhythms are changing. Flowering tightens. Rains arrive hard or late. Harvests shrink. People adapt in real time, adjusting soil, labour, and hope.

 

Through essays, conversations, and field recordings, this project listens to what changes when climate enters the kitchen. It asks what flavour it can reveal long before statistics do.

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This project is part of Hands of Transition, an initiative that brings together communities across India who are living through food insecurity and climate stress, and leading the way out of it. Design, storytelling, and on-the-ground action, driven from within.