Introduction
- Intro
- Sustainable agriculture initiatives
- Non-timber forest products (NTFP) initiatives
- Water related initiatives
- Special programmes for single women
- Accompaniment of community based organisations and people's institutions
- Capacity building
- Leveraged schemes for tribal farmers from government departments
- Low carbon farming initiatives
- Science and technology: Action research initiatives
- Broom grass on degraded forest lands
- Organic agriculture
- Promotion of local crop diversity
- Documentation of wild tubers
- Capacity building of the field team
- Collaborative micro enterprise initiatives with EarthCare Designs
- Designing skills based workshops on making products from waste material
- Setting up an Entrepreneurship Centre at Addateegala
The Scheduled areas are resource rich with annual rainfall of more than 1100 mm/year. Unfortunately, these adivasi communities remain cash poor and hence vulnerable to market deviations and climate changes. LAYA through its Natural Resource Management Unit enables communities to improve agriculture productivity by watershed management and value added technologies in their lands such as:
- System of Rice Intensification (SRI)
- Mixed traditional crops
- Agroforestry and forest regeneration of economically viable species
- Planting fruit bearing trees (horticulture)
- Vegetable cultivation on homesteads and kitchen gardens
- Seed Banks with traditional variety of seeds close to extinction