Our mission

Living Farms is a non-governmental organisation, initiated in 2005 with the mission to uphold food sovereignty. We strongly believe that people can organise themselves to sustain their own needs. We work with indigenous communities, landless, marginal & small farmers and consumers in Orissa, in the eastern part of India.  

We work to improve their access to and control over food, farming systems and natural resources. We promote local production, storage and consumption, prioritize local markets and the consumers' right to safe and nutritious food.  

Our key strategies are sustainable agriculture and sustainable management of natural resources. In collaboration with the local communities we try to understand their traditional knowledge of farming, the conservation of natural resources and trade. In collaboration with communities, we set up action research to find solutions to their local, specific problems. We document and share information about conservation initiatives, crop biodiversity, the impact of policies on farming communities and people’s struggle to assert their food sovereignty.