Recently, GREEN hosted a farmers’ meet in Kanakapura, for community members seeking organic farming certification through the Participatory Guarantee System (PGS). The main aim of this exercise was to identify, through interaction with the community, strategies that would make the certification process sustainable and completely independent from third party facilitators such as GREEN.
The great body of research in the international community clearly highlights the gradual change in the earth’s atmospheric conditions and the impact this will have on human livelihoods. However, for millions of the world’s impoverished and disenfranchised, 75% of whom live in rural communities where agriculture is the main source of income, the concept of climate change, as understood by the scientific community, is an alien one.
