Improving nutritional food security
We work with small and marginal farmers to improve the productivity of nutrition gardens. The overall goal is to reduce the food insecurity of the rural poor. Interventions are made based on the principles of sustainable natural resources management (NRM).
We have taken up such a work in six villages in two Gram Panchayats (GPs) of Bisoi block of Mayurbhanj district in Orissa for a period of one year in 2007.
The objectives of this work were:
- To improve food and nutritional security of marginal and small farming households by increasing the productivity of their nutritional gardens using local or locally adapted seeds/species
- To prepare Organic manure to minimize the use of external farm inputs, especially non-renewable resources such as agrochemicals, fossil fuels and ground water.
