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    India

    GENETIC RESOURCE, ENERGY,ECOLOGY AND NUTRITION(GREEN) FOUNDATION

    Empowered live

    Resilient nation

    Equator Initiative Case StudiesLocal sustainable development solutions for people, nature, and resilient communities

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    UNDP EQUATOR INITIATIVE CASE STUDY SERIES

    Local and indigenous communities across the world are advancing innovative sustainable development solutions that wo

    or people and or nature. Few publications or case studies tell the ull story o how such initiatives evolve, the breadth

    their impacts, or how they change over time. Fewer still have undertaken to tell these stories with community practition

    themselves guiding the narrative.

    To mark its 10-year anniversary, the Equator Initiative aims to ll this gap. The ollowing case study is one in a growing ser

    that details the work o Equator Prize winners vetted and peer-reviewed best practices in community-based environmenconservation and sustainable livelihoods. These cases are intended to inspire the policy dialogue needed to take local succ

    to scale, to improve the global knowledge base on local environment and development solutions, and to serve as models

    replication. Case studies are best viewed and understood with reerence to The Power o Local Action: Lessons rom 10 Years

    the Equator Prize, a compendium o lessons learned and policy guidance that draws rom the case material.

    Click on the map to visit the Equator Initiatives searchable case study database.

    EditorsEditor-in-Chie: Joseph Corcoran

    Managing Editor: Oliver HughesContributing Editors: Dearbhla Keegan, Matthew Konsa, Erin Lewis, Whitney Wilding

    Contributing WritersEdayatu Abieodun Lamptey, Erin Atwell, Toni Blackman, Jonathan Clay, Joseph Corcoran, Larissa Currado, Sarah Gordon, Oliver Hughe

    Wen-Juan Jiang, Sonal Kanabar, Dearbhla Keegan, Matthew Konsa, Rachael Lader, Patrick Lee, Erin Lewis, Jona Liebl, Mengning Ma,Mary McGraw, Gabriele Orlandi, Brandon Payne, Juliana Quaresma, Peter Schecter, Martin Sommerschuh, Whitney Wilding, Luna Wu

    DesignOliver Hughes, Dearbhla Keegan, Matthew Konsa, Amy Korngiebel, Kimberly Koserowski, Erin Lewis, John Mulqueen, Lorena de la Pa

    Brandon Payne, Mariajos Satizbal G.

    AcknowledgementsThe Equator Initiative acknowledges with gratitude the GREEN Foundation, and in particular the guidance and inputs o Rama Satish

    photo credits courtesy o GREEN Foundation. Maps courtesy o CIA World Factbook and Wikipedia.

    Suggested CitationUnited Nations Development Programme. 2012. Genetic Resource, Energy, Ecology and Nutrition (GREEN) Foundation, India. Equator Ini

    tive Case Study Series. New York, NY.

    http://equatorinitiative.org/images/stories/events/2012events/Book_Launch/power%2520of%2520local%2520action%2520final%25202013%25208mb.pdfhttp://equatorinitiative.org/images/stories/events/2012events/Book_Launch/power%2520of%2520local%2520action%2520final%25202013%25208mb.pdfhttp://equatorinitiative.org/index.php?option=com_winners&view=casestudysearch&Itemid=858http://equatorinitiative.org/images/stories/events/2012events/Book_Launch/power%2520of%2520local%2520action%2520final%25202013%25208mb.pdfhttp://equatorinitiative.org/images/stories/events/2012events/Book_Launch/power%2520of%2520local%2520action%2520final%25202013%25208mb.pdf
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    PROJECT SUMMARYWith the aim o preserving seed diversity and geneticheritage, encouraging the adoption o organic armingpractices, and improving rural livelihoods, GREENFoundation works through around 40 armers groups termed Krishi Sel-Help Groups covering 30 villagesacross the northern districts o Karnataka, comprising atarget population o almost 5,000 armers, with a particularocus on women and indigenous peoples. All groups aremembers o a armers ederation, Janadhanya. Beginningin 1994 with just a handul o armers, the association nowcomprises 650 members.

    GREEN sta oversee agricultural trainings through outreachservices and conservation awareness raising activities,while much o the work o the oundation takes place in-situ, in community-managed seed banks and through on-arm seed cultivation. The oundation currently cultivates328 varieties o indigenous seed, which have been revived,reintroduced, multiplied and stored in gene banks.

    KEY FACTS

    EQUATOR PRIZE WINNER: 2004

    FOUNDED: 1994

    LOCATION: northern rural districts of Karnataka, South Ind

    BENEFICIARIES: nearly 5,000 farmers

    BIODIVERSITY: seed and gene banks

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    GENETIC RESOURCE, ENERGY, ECOLOGYAND NUTRITION (GREEN) FOUNDATIONIndia

    TABLE OF CONTENTS

    Background and Context 4

    Key Activities and Innovations 6

    Biodiversity Impacts 8

    Socioeconomic Impacts 10

    Sustainability 11

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    Genetic Resource, Energy, Ecology and Nutrition (GREEN) Foundation

    s a community-based organization that works with disadvantaged

    roups o smallholder and marginalized armers in the semi-arid

    egions o Karnataka, South India, with a particular ocus on women

    armers.

    he organization aims to conserve agrobiodiversity and raise

    he income levels o arming households through the promotion

    sustainable agriculture. The initiative began in 1994 as the

    modest eorts o ve emale armers who shared a commitment

    o seed exchange and preserving genetic diversity. With its central

    eadquarters in Bangalore, capital o Karnataka, the oundation

    as since grown to benet almost 5,000 armers across the statesorthern rural districts through a range o sustainable agriculture

    ctivities, including seed diversity, ood security, and agricultural

    iversication.

    roject activities have been enthusiastically embraced by rural

    ommunities in Kanakapura Taluk, Ramanagara District, while the

    oundation is currently epxpanding its project area to include three

    gro-climatic zones in Karnataka: the northern dry zone, comprising

    Kakamari, in Belgaum District; the northern transition zone o

    Gundenatti, Belgaum District; and the hilly zone o Kadkod, Uttara

    Kannada District.

    Working through networks within the arming community, theoundation has been successul in reviving the genetic resource

    ase essential or the survival o smallholder armers. Activities bring

    ogether the socioeconomic, ecological, cultural and gender-specic

    spects o conserving biodiversity.

    he organization embraces a multi-stakeholder partnership model

    hat brings together armers, scientists and consumers in developing

    iodiversity conservation and sustainable agricultural practices and

    onsumption patterns that are based on traditional knowledge and

    which are validated and improved through scientic research.

    Vision and project catalysts; combating ood insecurity

    The groups vision is well-preserved ecosystems, high ge

    diversity, and sustainable rural livelihoods that protect Indias na

    resource base or uture generations. More specic objectives inc

    conserving local seed diversity, promoting an increased relianc

    biodiversity-based ecoagriculture, and using these as ounda

    or endogenous growth and development o rural commun

    creating a gender-sensitive environment which enhances leade

    development skills or local women; contributing to the livelih

    o local people through value-added strategies that m

    cultivated and wild biodiversity; connecting the elements o

    water, air, sunlight and seed to ensure an abundance o nutritood and other basic needs o communities; and continuin

    nurture community participation and assist in building ro

    peoples institutions.

    Among the project catalysts were poverty, malnutrition, a lack o

    security, increased use o chemical ertilizers, and environm

    decline. While the Green Revolution has helped meet ood n

    in India over the past our decades, it has promoted agricul

    techniques with lasting environmental implications, including

    contamination o groundwater, release o greenhouse gases, lo

    crop genetic diversity, and the eutrophication o water bodies

    coastal marine ecosystems. It has also increased the depend

    o marginalized armers on external inputs, leaving them mvulnerable to the vagaries o nature and thus threatening

    security at the subsistence level. Similarly, massive biodive

    loss and ecosystem degradation have deepened poverty

    insecurity. Breaking this vicious cycle requires local ingenuity

    strong entrepreneurship to create new orms o income based

    conservation ethic rather than on over-harvesting.

    With regard to ood and nutritional security, malnutrition ca

    by deciencies in specic vitamins and minerals aicts som

    percent o the worlds population, especially women and child

    Background and Context

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    he majority o people suering rom micronutrient malnutrition

    ve in South Asia, ironically a region with an incredible diversity o

    ruits and vegetables that are excellent source o micronutrients. The

    rend or more and more people to be nourished by ewer and ewer

    plant and animal ood sources, however, has reached the point t

    where there is greater dependence on a handul o species. GR

    Foundation addresses this shortall by conserving agricu

    genetic diversity through its smallholder armers groups.

    Observing climate change has become inevitable for the smallholder and marginalized farme

    who live in areas reliant on rainfall. Our farmers have developed multiple strategies to cope wi

    the changing climate.

    Rama Satish, GREEN Foundation

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    Key Activities and Innovations

    With a ocus on the conservation o local seed diversity, conservation

    o agrobiodiversity through ecoagriculture, and promotion o

    ustainable livelihoods through value-added processing and

    marketing, the GREEN Foundation has 17 ull-time sta.

    Rural beneciary population

    he target beneciaries o the project are largely armers who

    ave little or no land, and in particular socially and economically

    marginalized women. GREEN Foundation project activities are

    urrently being carried out in around 60 villages in Kanakapura Taluk,

    ncluding 4,000 arming households, with a total target population

    o almost 5,000 armers across the northern districts o Karnataka,ncluding 41 arming amilies in the village o Gundenatti, 28 amilies

    n Sirsi, and 40 amilies in Bija pur. In Gundenatti alone, over 40

    percent o project beneciaries are women and over ninety percent

    re indigenous peoples. All o the target project beneciaries are

    ocated in rural areas.

    anadhanya: a ederation o armers sel-help groups

    he organizations main strategy or reaching its target beneciary

    population is through scaling up armers groups, coordinated under

    armers ederation that integrates and coordinates the activities

    o the groups. Capacity building activities o the GREEN Foundation

    were initially targeted at improving the livelihoods o armers

    hrough eco-agriculture practices at the individual arm level. Since

    ts ormation, the group has expanded to a more community-based

    nd oriented approach, acknowledging that CBOs have capacity

    o share knowledge with one another and that larger scale change

    ecessitates a more systemic approach. There are currently 40

    armers groups termed Krishi Sel-Help Groups covering 30

    illages in the project area. All groups are members o a armers

    ederation called Janadhanya (rom the word Jana, meaning people.)

    Registered under the Societies Registration Act o 1960, Janadhanya

    was established in 2006 with a handul o members keen to tak

    movement orward while consolidating community involvem

    An average o ve to seven villages comprise individual clu

    representatives o these clusters, who are either nominated or v

    in, make up the Board o Directors o Janadhanya. Currently

    board comprises o 13 members, 5 o whom are women. In ord

    involve all sections o the communities in which it works, GREEN

    also acilitated the ormation o Village Development Commi

    (VDCs). These VDCs, unique in their aim o removing all barrie

    caste, religion and gender, meet once a month in order to dis

    issues related to organic arming.

    Today, Janadhanya comprises nearly 650 members, 285 o ware women. Currently, the association is active in the Kanakpura

    with regular trainings and exposure visits run by GREEN Found

    to build the capacity o its member groups. The ederation int

    to expand the number o Krishi Sel-Help Groups to 100, cove

    over 60 villages.

    Strategies or behavioral change

    The organization has been highly successul in reaching

    expanding its target population, growing an integrated move

    o organic arming and seed conservation. To acilitate the spread

    conservation o seed diversity through its armers sel-help gro

    the oundation has established 34 community seed banks athe state, which has in turn resulted in the revival o indige

    knowledge as well as socially, environmentally and econom

    adapted agricultural practices. The production and distribu

    o traditional crop varieties by smallholder armers thro

    community-based seed banks is innovative as a decentra

    system, whereby armers need not depend on ar-removed

    supply chains involving seed companies or government

    agencies. Community seed banks are able to adapt and resp

    directly and quickly to community needs and demands.

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    Uptake o new organic arming practices has been achieved through

    xtensive communication and educational outreach coordinated

    y the GREEN Foundation. This process has been slow and steady,

    s it took some time or armers to abandon the use o chemical

    ertilizers and transition to organic arming, which typically involves

    more labor to integrate organic input use on arms. To overcome

    ocal apprehension around organic arming, the oundation has

    eld seed airs, used street theatre and public documentation o

    raditional seed varieties, and conducted training and awareness-aising programs.

    GREEN Foundation is not just about the revival o traditi

    practices, but about the combination o indigenous knowledge

    sustainable natural resource management practices with mo

    scientic principles. Through integrated arming systems, ar

    have been empowered to become sel-reliant in seed produc

    and in the use o organic manure to avoid the hazards o ertili

    pesticides and other chemicals in their arming systems.

    There is a blind focus on developing urban areas and a gross neglect of basic infrastructure th

    is desperately needed in the rural areas: politicians should stop using the poor as a vote bank.

    Rama Satish, GREEN Foundation

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    Impacts

    BIODIVERSITY IMPACTS

    The main biodiversity conservation activities o the organization

    nclude agrobiodiversity conservation, organic arming, seed

    mapping and multiplication, soil and water conservation, education

    nd outreach eorts, and conducting training sessions with rural

    armers organisations.

    Agrobiodiversity conservation

    The oundation has a particular ocus on agrobiodiversity

    onservation. The main objective o the activity is to help armers

    ealize the value o plant resources on their arms and to reduceheir dependence on external inputs (seeds, manures, pesticides

    nd energy) as much as possible by using the resources available to

    hem. Documentation, preservation, purication and storage o local

    rops, vegetables, ruits, multi-purpose tree species and medicinal

    herbs are carried out through in situ and ex situ conservation eorts.

    Community participation and leadership are key principles in these

    ctivities.

    Conservation o indigenous seed varieties has been at the core o the

    oundations work since it rst began in 1994. In its early years, GREEN

    ta personally travelled long distances in their search or rare seed

    varieties, bringing new varieties back to the research arm in Thalli

    or multiplication and urther investigation. These early trials ormhe basis o the oundations conservation eorts today, and have

    yielded impressive conservation results. Prior to GREEN Foundation

    nterventions, the majority o armers were growing hybrid seed

    varieties. Today, the oundation cultivates 328 varieties o indigenous

    eed, which have been revived, reintroduced, multiplied and stored

    n gene banks. The more popular varieties are grown in larger

    quantities with armers and through the community seed centers,

    which serve as a conduit or seed exchange and distribution. Many

    ndigenous crop and vegetable varieties have been re-introduced

    n arming areas where they had all but disappeared. Increasing

    numbers o armers are now reverting to the cultivation o t

    varieties and the low-input sustainable agriculture they require

    Conservation eorts can be broken down into in situ and ex

    conservation. The ormer involves on-arm conservation, w

    individual armers conserve seeds or cultivation in their house

    plots. This orm o genetic diversity conservation allows o

    evolutionary process o crop adaptation, and gives armers

    control over their genetic resource base. This has been encoura

    by demonstrations o rare varieties, and by the instituting o kit

    and community gardens. Individual seed savers are also empow

    to grow and conserve seeds on their arms, becoming reso

    persons within their community, as they provide seeds to thosemay need them as well as to seed banks. Farmers are also a

    participants in seed multiplication the seeds they produce

    procured through Janadhanya or urther distribution.

    Ex situ conservation is carried out through two principal aven

    through the oundations 34 community seed banks, which pro

    communities with ree and easy access to seeds on the basis th

    armer must return twice the number o seeds he or she borro

    and GREEN Foundations central gene bank, in Dodda Maralaw

    Kanakapura Taluk, where over 100 rare varieties are stored. S

    cultivated each year in rare variety demonstrations are stored

    or uture use.

    Organic arming, soil conservation

    The oundation has a complementary ocus on organic ar

    and maintaining soil health. The addition o chemical ertil

    weedicides and pesticides to the soil damages local ecosys

    and decreases soil ertility. Microorganisms and creatures

    as earthworms are important or maintaining soil health; the

    o chemicals disrupts this ecosystem balance. Many chem

    (including ungicides, insecticides, growth promoters and chem

    nutrients) are used on crops, which then negatively aect ins

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    birds and other organisms. The use o organic ertilizers such as

    Beejamrutha, Jeevamrutha, and Panchagavya has been widely

    adopted in the central project area, with its urther replication

    being encouraged through activities such as hands-on training,

    demonstrations, and Farmers Field Schools (FFS).

    Organic arming practices promoted by GREEN include agroorestry,

    arm ponds, the use o silt as a ertilizer, construction o trenches and

    bunds, and vermicomposting.

    Agroorestry

    ncorporating trees in arming is an age-old practice in India that

    has recently declined in usage. GREEN Foundation has encouraged

    ts application through raising saplings in communal nurseriesor planting around arm plots in trenches. As a result, nearly

    0,000 saplings were raised by women armers in the villages o

    Aralagadakalu and Veeraiahanadoddi alone.

    . Farm ponds

    GREEN has given trainings to armers in digging arm ponds in the

    owest lying areas o their land holdings, guiding them on where

    o locate their ponds, how to excavate them, and how to create a

    network o drainage channels that lead to the pond. These ponds

    then catch and store rain water; outlets built into the pond

    discharge excess water into surrounding areas to aid with irriga

    helping to reduce armers dependence on groundwater or rain

    iii. Silt application

    The oundation has similarly reinvigorated the use o silt a

    organic ertilizer, which had previously been in decline. In tradit

    Indian agricultural practices, silt was allowed to gather in vi

    tanks and lakes, and was then reapplied to armers elds in oto improve soil ertility. There are a reported 36,000 tanks in 26

    villages o Karnataka state, that serve this dual purpose as w

    storage systems or communities and trapping silt sediment

    in nutrients. GREEN researchers have helped to gauge approp

    application methods, which may dier rom arm to arm, and

    provided training in its usage.

    iv. Trench and bund construction

    The combination o bunds (soil embankments) and tren

    constructed on the periphery o armland help to reduce soil ero

    and retain water during persiods o scarce rainall. This practice

    also improve ground water levels by increasing ltration, while

    and agricultural waste collected in trenches is used to enrichertility by mixing it back into the land.

    v. Vermicompost

    Vermicomposting the use o worms in compost to break d

    biomass has been enthusiastically adopted by armers. Rich

    essential plant nutrients, vermicompost is both cost eective an

    many cases, also supplements amily income, as many armer

    able to sell the excess vermicompost in their arms at a good pr

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    Fig. 2: Uptake of GREEN Foundation organic farming activities (numbers of farmers)

    ource: GREEN Foundation, 2010.

    Beejamrutha: cow dung, lime water, coil, water, cow urine

    Jeevamrutha: soil, water, cow dung, cow urine, pulse four,

    jaggery (unrened cane sugar)Panchagavya: ghee, cow urine, cow dung, milk, coconut,

    banana, curd, jaggery

    Fig. 1: Organic fertilizers promoted by GREEN

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    and that was previously eroded and degraded is now being

    ejuvenated through these sustainable land management activities.

    n 2010 alone, GREEN Foundation organic arming methods were

    eing applied across more than 100 acres o land.

    Seed mapping and multiplication

    eed mapping has been promoted by GREEN as a strategy or

    dentiying particular varieties o indigenous seeds ound withinpecied regions. Using a Participatory Rural Appraisal (PRA)

    pproach, GREEN engages community members (and especially

    lders) to determine existing species in their locale. Indigenous

    nowledge o seed diversity is documented; over time, the technique

    lso helps to give an indication o the extent o biodiversity loss.

    All available seed varieties in the community are collected and

    istributed among armers or urther multiplication and use, helping

    o underpin the richness o biodiversity in the region. Indigenous

    rop varieties that may have disappeared rom the area are restored

    y sourcing them rom other regions. Through techniques such as

    RA, GREEN has been able to rediscover nearly 420 indigenous seed

    arieties in the region o Thalli since it began its work there in 1997.

    Education and outreach eforts

    nvironmental education and awareness-raising activities have

    een carried out in Karnataka through traditional and innovative

    means. In particular, raising awareness on the cultural importance o

    he regions historical seed genetic diversity has been accomplished

    hrough seed yatras and seed airs. The ormer describes a

    raditional Indian medium o story-telling, adapted or the purpose

    demonstrating the uses o native seed varieties. Decorated bullock

    arts travel rom village to village inorming and educating armers

    n sustainable agricultural practices, employing music, dance and

    heater to raise awareness. Samples o indigenous seeds are also

    istributed or armers to grow in their elds.

    Seed airs, meanwhile, have been introduced to Karnataka by GREEN

    s a means o bringing smallholder agrarian practitioners together

    o discuss and share organic arming methods. Traditionally, village

    santhe (weekly markets) provided a orum or armers to network

    nd share lessons learned; in place o this, GREEN acilitates on

    verage two seed airs each year, held around the end o the harvest

    eason, to host these invaluable exchange sessions.

    Training and exposure visits

    Over 450 training sessions on sustainable agriculture were held by

    GREEN Foundation in 2011 alone. These workshops included trainingarmers on biopesticides; organic ertilizers such as vermicomposting;

    method or cultivating ragi (nger millet) known as Guli; a system

    rice intensication (SRI) or dry land paddy cultivation; and on

    roper seed storage and crop improvement techniques. Training

    essions are specic to dierent periods o the agricultural season,

    ased on modules developed by GREEN over years o experiential

    earning.

    These trainings are augmented by exposure visits, in which ar

    rom dierent regions are supported to visit practical exam

    o successul integration o sustainable practices in arm

    communities. This has helped to spur adoption o practices

    as community seed banks. GREEN acilitates approximately 6

    exposure visits per year.

    SOCIOECONOMIC IMPACTS

    Aside rom the benets or arming households resulting

    decreased expenditures on arm inputs such as ertilizers

    chemical manure, socioeconomic conditions have impr

    or participating armers in a variety o ways. Livelihoods

    been diversied through the introduction o alternative inco

    generating opportunities, while ood and nutritional security

    been enhanced by the production o organically-grown grains

    vegetables and the adoption o kitchen gardens.

    Participatory organic certication

    A critical actor in diversiying income streams or rural arme

    Karnataka has been the introduction o low-cost certicatioorganic producers. Demand or sae, healthy, and sustain

    produced ood is gradually increasing in Indian and world

    markets. Large-scale armers and traders are increasingly wo

    with certied organic ood producers. Smallholder organic ar

    are typically unable to realize the benet o the high value

    organic products, however. Third party certication systems

    generally too expensive and complicated or small-scale applica

    The oundation has thereore employed a Participatory Guara

    System (PGS) to benet small armers without any cost. The sy

    allows them to become eligible to sell organic produce under a

    label. Eligibility criteria are assessed by a committee o armers

    member o the PGS Organic India Council, GREEN Foundation

    acilitated the certication o 32 armers since 2006, with ovearmers still in the process o being certied.

    Integrated arming systems

    Another new initiative being implemented is the establishme

    integrated arming systems. These model arms serve as ocal p

    and demonstration sites to illustrate the benets o sustain

    arming techniques. The main objective is to build cond

    and capacity among the armers by demonstrating that

    smallholdings o between one and two acres, they can diversiy

    livelihoods to include and incorporate agriculture, sericulture

    arming Ramanagara District is renowned or its production o

    sheep and goat rearing, poultry, animal husbandry and agroorin a holistic manner. A pilot project is currently underway on tw

    arms six with irrigation acilities and six rain-ed to unnel na

    and technical support and develop them into model demonstr

    arms.

    Diversied arm-based livelihood activities underpin muc

    the oundations work with rural households, encouraging

    adoption o organic arming through a combination o benets

    expenditure savings, improved wellbeing, and increased house

    incomes.

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    Sustainability and Replication

    PARTNERShe program has been in operation or more than seventeen years

    nd has grown steadily during that time. Beginning with only ve

    women armers, the oundations work has spread across the state to

    he extent that it can now legitimately be considered a movement or

    eed conservation and organic arming. The oundation continues to

    ncrease awareness on sustainable arming methods and to produce

    nd store indigenous seed varieties or the benet o local and

    marginalized armers.

    Central to the sustainability model has been the creation and

    mpowerment o sel-help groups and the armers ederation. Thispproach has allowed the GREEN Foundation to sustain, enhance

    nd expand environmental benets within the communities and

    cosystems where the project is located. Other keys to project

    ustainability have included active community participation and

    eadership, nancial resources, and ongoing capacity building and

    raining.

    roject sustainability has been urther ensured by a robust

    artnership model, which includes HIVOS (Humanistisch Instituut

    oor Ontwikkelingssamenwerking) the Unitarian Service Committee

    Canada (USC CANADA), Local Initiatives or Biodiversity, Research

    nd Development (LI-BIRD) based in Nepal, the Netherlands-based

    NGO Agriterra, and the UNDP/GEF Small Grants Programme.

    Stop encroaching and destroying the limited resources that we have borrowed from futu

    generations. Instead, be custodians of our natural diversity, and safeguard the natural weal

    vested in our hands.

    Rama Satish, GREEN Foundation

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