Seed Quality Assurance System through Participatory Guarantee System (PGS)

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We are excited to share that our work under the Gender Responsive Seed Systems Project has been published on CGIAR (Consultative Group on International Agricultural Research) Spaces. have developed the Participatory Guarantee System (PGS), a groundbreaking approach that empowers smallholder and women farmers to lead seed quality assurance. By...
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Enabavi stories – 1st Organic Village in India in 2006

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Enabavi, the very ‘1st Organic Village’ in India After Punukula (Khammam), another village which took the challenge of leaving behind the traces of chemical usage and genetically modified crops was “Enabavi”. An inspiration and a successful story of how the second largest pesticide usage district’s one village adopted biological...
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Punukula Stories – 1st Pesticide-Free Village in India in 2005

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When the Centre for Sustainable Agriculture (CSA), Hyderabad began its journey in 2004, its main focus was to support small and marginal farmers with knowledge of ecological and economically sustainable farming practices. This led to helping them to transition from conventional methods to organic. In 2005, Punukula, a village...
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Natural Farming: Building a vibrant ecosystem

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India is now witnessing a transformation towards Natural Farming. Some of the key challenges which prompted this transition are the growing threat from Climate Change, environmental pollution, degradation of natural resources and growing demand for sustainably grown safer food.  While the transitions are driven by civil society organisations, government...
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