Livelihoods

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The search for dignified, ecologically sustainable and meaningful livelihoods and jobs is featured in this section. This includes the continuation and enhancement of fulfilling traditional occupations that communities choose to continue, including in agriculture, pastoralism, forestry, fisheries, crafts, and others in the primary economy. It also includes sustainable, dignified jobs in manufacturing and service sectors where producers and service-providers are in control of their destinies and revenues are equitably distributed.

Bridging urban-rural divide

Cooperative initiatives that involve urban and rural people to solve problems of villages as well as cities, help to bridge the rural-urban divide

Uttarakhand govt. to purchase millets, food grains directly from farmers

Apart from benefiting farmers, the scheme would also benefit thousands of school going children.

How AP’s aggregators are doing it

Its target is to bring down the cost of production in farming and provide higher income to farmers by following organic methods.

Collaborative Training for Telangana Women Weavers

As a first step, women weavers will directly interact with buyers and showcase their handloom products in Hyderabad on March 30 and 31, 2018

Taking firm root: A cooperative success story off Salem

Member-farmers do not cultivate the same crop; the produce is purchased by the society; and farmers are debt-free.

Floating gardens for the landless

Bamboo beds with layers of dried water hyacinth, silt, vermicompost and farm yard manure, dry leaves of leguminous plants, etc. float on the water bodies.

Vembanad’s fishing community protects their fish with sanctuaries

To protect the fish resources, the traditional fishing community of Vembanad Lake has started constructing fish sanctuaries in the lake

A ‘cheesy’ effort to give women wings

"We want their work to be noticed, rather than their disability,”

In the words of Sunita Kashyap: “We believe in trade, not aid”

Demand for reduced taxes on trading for women’s collectives to help them effectively participate in value chains and get income security.