India's seed saviour goes against the corporate grain – in pictures [View all]

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Dr Debal Deb stands in the middle of his partly built seed bank in Odisha. He is using local, sustainable materials and local labour. Deb plans to use the seed bank to educate people about the importance of adopting a holistic, sustainable approach to farming


Deb works in a field at his first farm in West Bengal state. Apart from his work with rice, he is a key proponent of the 'food web theory’, which aims to establish scientific proof of an overwhelmingly positive relationship between all plant and animal life.


A field where Deb grows some of the 920 varieties of indigenous rice he has helped to save from extinction. Industrial agriculture and GM farming, which favour seed monocultures, have been partly responsible for the loss of more than 90% of India’s indigenous rice seed