ORRISSA


Grassroots community organisation committed to the cause of natural farming



Community Bio-diversity mapping



Understanding local resource base enriching traditional crops and expanding local forest cover


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Grassroots women farmers conserving local seeds



Seed Mothers are the custodians of local seed diversity


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Backyard rainwater harvesting helps women farmers access food all-round the year



Grassroots women leaders invent


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Solar energy empower women



Women farmers leading


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Community level climate justice initiative



Grassroots women create & manage their own fund


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ORRISSA receives Prakruti Mitra citation



'Friends of nature' citation from Govt. of Odisha in 2010



Local seeds are the backbone of diverse food systems



Seed Mothers facilitate community crop plan


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Community Seed Fairs celebrate the bounty of local seed & food diversity



Traditional seeds include forest species, food for plants & animals


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Grassroots women farmers create all-season food garden at the households



Collective action help maximise food production with local knowledge & resource base


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Solar lights enabling grassroots livelihoods



Women farmers leading


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Natural farming expanding to new horizons



Multiple crop combinations increase volume of food per acre of land


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Communities creating village food forest



Grassroots women leaders creating village food forests to enrich & sustain the rapidly decreasing uncultivated food landscapes



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OUR WORK IN NRLM PUBLICATION



ORRISSA piloted the Traditional Seed Conservation centred sustainable drylands farming with 3000 grassroots women farmers of Odisha. The project highlights are captured in the case story booklet published by NRLM, Ministry of RD, Government of India. Plz. visit Page 6 of the document.


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FAO PUBLISHED ARTICLE


Food & Agriculture Organisation (FAO) of United Nations have published our work around local seed conservation through Seed Mothers. This is one among the 52 Agro-ecology profiles around the world.


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SEEDS OF EMPOWERMENT


The work of ORRISSA on protection of traditional seeds to help families turn food secure and increasing income of the families by taking the surplus to the market have been captured in this LEISA-INDIA article.


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COMMUNITY ORCHARDS



521 Adivasi Farming families at Malkangiri block have been supported by NABARD to establish their orchards for long-term income sustainability for the families on their up-land patches.


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BACK TO NATURE LEISA ARTICLE


This article in LEISA- INDIA is an outcome of the Action Research on Conservation of local seed traits and resilient cropping practices helping families to turn food secure.


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SEED MOTHERS


This is one of the IMPORTANT PROCESS DOCUMENT of ORRISSA organisation that captures the role of grassroots SEED MOTHERS in conserving local seeds and empowering the resilient farming systems. The key environmental services offered by the local farmers while growing food forms an important part of this work,


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