In a village in Karnataka’s Dharwad District, India, a group of landless women has redefined rural entrepreneurship by transforming traditional food processing into a viable and sustainable business. The Shri Vinayaka Self-Help Group (SHG) began their journey with limited resources but a shared determination to improve their livelihoods.
Category Archives: India
India : Establishing separate market spaces for agroecological producers
Discover more about the creation of separate market spaces in India, and their positive impact for agroecological producers.
Collecting traditional varieties
Discover the process of collecting traditional varieties in India.
Beneficiaries stories: India
Discover the stories of three Indian farmers that have (re)introducted some NUS into their fields.
Links between gender and varietal selection: case study in Odisha
In September 2022, Bhittibhumi and FiBL led a Participatory Variety Selection exercise in Odisha, highlighting differences in trait preferences and varietal choices among male and female farmers. This exercise emphasized the importance of including both genders in discussions on seed variety preferences and agricultural practices.
Participatory Varietal Selection in India: research and process in Karnataka
In India, the first Participatory Varietal Selection (PVS) training supervised by experts from FiBL, and jointly organized by FiBL, SWISSAID and Sahaja Samrudha, took place in Mysore, Karnataka on amaranth crop in June 2022.
Strengthening awareness, availability and practices of NUS in West Bengal, India
During the month of May 2022, several activities to promote NUS took place in India among the farmers as well as the general public.
Kickoff visit in India
Partner’s orientation and planning workshop for the CROPS4HD project was held in the first week of August this year. This meeting brought all the project coordination and implementation together to build a shared understanding of the roles, functions, and responsibilities for the inception and main phase.
CROPS4HD builds climate resilience
The project CROPS4HD promotes neglected and underutilised crops that are more resilient to the impacts of climate change as a strategy for farmers to adapt their production to the new reality of climate change.
Fonio millet, Lablab bean or Bambara groundnuts: the rediscovered crops
The new SWISSAID project CROPS4HD focuses on local, almost forgotten crops to improve the food security of people in the South.