The CSA model: Supporting a farmer instead of buying vegetables

Participants started discussing amongst themselves landscape features in their villages and demarcated forest, roads, wells, etc.

A digital platform helps women farmers to sell organically grown indigenous rice directly to customers, helping them to book higher profits

The rice, endemic to Kerala, adapted to the salinity of the coastal areas. To survive the tides the plant grew taller - to 1.5 meters.

Following year-long demonstrations by the local villagers, the Government of J&K made a decision. TosaMaidan was handed over to its people.

100 consumers has invested in small holdings of women farmers ahead of the crop season. They will get a share of the produce.

Processing at the University is comparatively cheap, and since there are no middlemen, farmers of Hyderabad-Karnataka save a lot.

The initiative is about enlightened consumers getting into an understanding with ecological farmers to cultivate millets of their choice.

Indian Institute of Millet Research must focus on the “wealth of women’s knowledge on millet ecology” rather thatn on genetically modified millets.