Our team
We like to present our team members, the driving force behind Living Farms.
We want to explain what we are doing, in which projects we are involved... But we also want to tell you about our motivation to work for Living Farms. We want to share our dreams with you!
Jyoti - Information and documentation team
After working on community health, development, human resources and women empowerment, I felt a need to work on "Nutrition" aspects so I decided to get involved in farming. Living Farms is an extension of this interest. I share a part in its process of inception and growth. I am documenting and communicating the concept of sustainable agriculture and related issues. I love to work with the local villagers. They are the producers and “life” starts with them. I dream of villages having food sovereignty, Seeds, land, water, forest in the hands of villagers. People deciding for themselves and managing their resources in a respectful and sustainable way to have healthy food and a healthy way of living.
Jagannath - GM campaign team
Jagannath Chatterjee, who has worked with a public sector company as a state head and started his career with national English daily as a journalist and who has been a one man campaigner against vaccines, puts in his efforts as an anti-GM campaigner in Living Farms. "Living Farms offered me the perfect working environment for the kind of work I am doing", he says. "Campaigning is a very difficult job especially when you are up against mighty corporate forces and their allies in big governments. It requires a lot of coordinated effort to get your message across. The climate within Living Farms, its credibility and the network helps me to see result of my work.
Debjeet
I work along with my team members to accomplish the tasks at hand and help them to grow by taking independent responsabilties, working together in the field. I network with other organisations on behalf of Living Farms. I am also responsable for fund raising. To see people amidst of all odds taking care of people around them is a great source of inspiration. Children are also a source of inspiration.
Chinmayee -Information and documentation team
I work for Living Farms since 2006. I am responsible for Project report compilation, database management as well as managing our website of our organisation.
Living Farms gives me an opportunity to document information which is directly related to peoples lives. By sharing this knowledge (books, magazines, articles, reports, statistics...) with the media, NGOs, students, educational institutes... we want to inform them and raise awareness.
Suasanta - Community food sovereignty team
I work for Living Farms since may 2007. I prepared different case studies on the impact of pesticides on human health and I designed communication mechanisms to improve the fieldwork. I am motivated to work for Living Farms because we are purely working on sustainable agriculture for communities in the grassroot levels.
