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Economic Justice

Mukta Devi of Sandekala village, Sant Kabirnagar carrying her grains to the grain bank setup with the support of our patner Gorakhpur Environment Action Group in Uttar Pradesh

Our Economic Justice work aims to strengthen the livelihoods of poor and marginal groups in rural India. More than 80% of rural India is dependent on agriculture and forest resources for their livelihoods and 85% of the farmers are small holders owning less than 2 ha of land. More than 80% of all rural female workers are in agriculture while only 9.4% of women own land in rural India. Secure access to the natural resources is the key to sustainable rural livelihoods. Our work is also focused on improving access to forest resources by poor communities and make agricultural models viable for small farmers especially for women farmers. The two clusters of work areas under Economic Justice are (a) Small Holder Agriculture & Climate Change (b) Natural Resources Management.

 

Small Holder Agriculture and Climate Change

Small Holder Agriculture and Climate Change program focuses on strengthening the economic leadership and land rights of women farmers, making public investments in agriculture accessible to small farmers through Rashtriya Krishi Vikas Yozana (RKVY), a Central Government scheme and increasing the resilience of agriculture from the impacts of climate change.

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Natural Resource Management

Very poor and marginalized groups such as Tribal, Dalits and women-headed households are dependent on natural resources for their livelihoods. In India, over 60% of the Tribal population lives within 5km of a forest (National Sample Survey, 44th Round). This dependency is particularly intense for half of India’s 89 million tribal people, the most disadvantaged section of society, who live in forest fringe areas.

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Food Justice Campaign

Nearly a billion people face hunger every day. Unsustainable ways of consumption and production are moving us on a collision course with our planets ecological limits. The warning signs are clear. We have entered an age of crisis: of food price spikes and oil price hikes; of scrambles for land and water; of creeping, insidious climate change.

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