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Empowered live
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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.
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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.
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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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