Working on innovations that helps farmers to transit to sustainable agricultural livelihoods
- Climate Change: Impacts, mitigation, adaptation and resilience
- Organic/Natural farming: cropping systems, integrated systems, production practices
- Sustainable Seed Systems: Reviving diversity, conservation, organic breeding and participatory varietal selection, seed library, seed banks and enterprises, Open Source (open access and benefit sharing) systems
- Bio Resource Centres: Designing and promoting Bio Resource Centres as commercial enterprises which can produce and supply better quality bio inputs for agriculture
- Extension and Advisory services:Diagnositics, Survilience and Advisory Services
- Sustainable Livelihoods Framework:resource based planning, capacity building, forward and backward linkages
and these will ensure
- Nutritional security: Household, institutional models
- Diversifying income baskets: On farm, Off farm and non farm livelihoods
- Individual and community based rural enterprises: Bioenterprises, Food processing, retail stores