Our stories

Jayappa

It was only after members of GREEN approached him that Jayappa heard of the advantages of organic farming. His first reaction was to dismiss everything he was told about sustainable agriculture; it seemed impossible that what they were saying could be true. “I often treated them with contempt,” says Jayappa. This type of attitude is common among many farmers that GREEN approaches. They are initially reluctant to try the practices we recommend because of preconceived notions that they will not receive good yields.

Jayarathnamma

A community leader and entrepreneur in her own right, Jayarathnamma is quietly breaking through the social barriers that women have faced for centuries. A leading member of the Self Help Group in her village of Kolagondanahalli, she spearheads income generation programs for 16 strong women. Together, the group has availed loans and subsidies for small scale enterprises which have greatly strengthened their livelihoods. Jayarathnamma plays a large part in all these ventures, monitoring progress and regularizing payments on bank loans so that the group’s endeavours bear good results.

News and Events

Sustainability in organic farming certification

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.

Training on assessment of climate change vulnerability and adaptation strategies

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.