What we do
Rural households do not experience their difficulties as separate problems, and we do not organise our work as though they were.
Restoring the soil that livelihoods stand on.
We work with farmer producer institutions to restore soil health, reduce dependence on purchased inputs, and manage crop and residue cycles across contiguous land, because regenerative practice only works at scale, not holding by holding.
Programme in development
Lowering the energy cost that sits directly on a smallholder's margin.
We are developing solar and community energy adoption, beginning with agricultural operations where energy is a direct charge against a farmer's income, and extending to household and community-level access.
Programme in development
Farming a season that no longer follows the old calendar.
Cultivation practice adapted to observed local rainfall and temperature rather than to a historical calendar, alongside community-level preparedness for the shocks that variability brings.
Raising the return on the work a household already does.
Value addition and processing, livestock-based income, rural enterprise and market linkage, so that a greater share of the value a household creates stays with the household.
Skills that generate income within reach of the hamlet.
Vocational and enterprise training for women and young people, oriented to work that can actually be found or created locally rather than to certificates with no market behind them.
Working through the institution rural women already trust.
Self-help group strengthening, financial literacy, savings discipline, micro-enterprise and leadership, delivered at the doorstep, where the questions that matter actually get asked.
Giving rural young people a reason to stay.
Skills, employability, leadership and exposure to agricultural science through our partnerships with universities and research institutions, addressed to the decision young people are actually making about their futures.
Reaching the services that reach communities last.
Medical and physiotherapy outreach, health and nutrition awareness, legal literacy, and support for households the formal system does not find, including elderly people without family support.
One crop year, in the order it happens. Every stage below was photographed on land worked through a farmer producer group.
