Enabling organizational capacity for enhancing farm livelihoods including PGS & Agri-Nutri-garden
| Project's full title | Enabling organizational capacity for enhancing farm livelihoods including PGS & Agri-Nutri-garden |
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| Country | India |
| Start date | 01/09/2021 |
| End date | 31/12/2022 |
| Status | Completed |
| Project Code | TCP/IND/3806 |
| Objective / Goal |
Strategic Objective 2: Make agriculture, forestry and fisheries more productive and sustainable Objectives: DAY-NRLM Community Resource Person (CRP) have increased capacities to support on-farm livelihoods Description: The Ministry of Rural Development (MoRD), Government of India (GoI) and the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO) entered into a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) in April 2017 to work on areas of common interest in the context of the Deendayal Antyodaya Yojana-National Rural Livelihoods Mission (DAY-NRLM) scheme which was launched in 2011. The DAY-NRLM provides a combination of financial resources and technical support to states to implement a comprehensive livelihoods based programme for rural poverty alleviation through the creation and strengthening of institutional platforms of the rural poor. It has the deepest reach among the most vulnerable population of the rural poor in all the states across the country. Under the aegis of this MoU, FAO together with DAY-NRLM had identified areas of close support that it had been working on since 2017. Recently, FAO received a request from DAY-NRLM to discuss the proposed action plan for the year 2021-22 and seeking FAO’s technical support on mutually agreed activities adopting a collaborative approach. These include developing and finalizing a training materials on Participatory Guarantee System (PGS) Certification and Agri-Nutri-gardens as well as develop a compendium of best practices on-farm livelihoods and success stories of the Community Resource Person (CRPs). DAY-NRLM has identified several best practices around on-farm livelihoods across the country. These interventions/practices are comparatively more sustainable and profitable that has changed the lives of practising farmers/Community Resource Person (CRPs) and the lives in their neighbourhood. While these interventions/practices have great economics and impact but are confined to a given local context. Moreover, these interventions/practices and success stories of CRPs are either not documented properly or if documented there is no homogeneity in presentation. Therefore, learning from these practices seldom gets disseminated beyond the local area. As India is a very big country, having different agro-climatic zones, topography, varied social and cultural practices, manifold languages and distinct food habits, the farmers from the distant part are unaware of these practices. In this context, DAY-NRLM requested FAO to develop a compendium collaboratively on best farm-livelihood practices and success stories of best practising CRPs properly, from all across the country on various themes such as on a farm, livestock, Non-Timber Forest Produce (NTFP) etc. by maintaining homogeneity in presentation. This would help NRLM to widely disseminate the knowledge and practices in other regions of the country for contextual replication and better adoption towards furthering sustainability and increasing the profitability of farmers. Considering the above, the TCPf will provide detailed technical guidance to the DAYNRLM to finalize a training material on Participatory Guarantee Scheme (PGS) certification and Agri-Nutri-garden as well as develop a compendium of best practices on-farm livelihoods and success stories of CRPs for the use of DAY-NRLM. Donor: FAO Expected Outputs:
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