Food Sovereignty for Adivasi Communities in Orissa, India

Operational area :- 6 Villages of Keonjhar district  and 16 Villages of Sundargargh District

of Odisha

Duration -2018- 2020

Project concentrates on following components:

1. Enabling the of communities, working on nutrition ensuring, malnutrition and otherhealth problems by means of a combined approach of regeneration of community knowledgeabout food and nutrition, encouragement of nutrition from the ecosystem and basics for agood health care for families.

2. Strengthening of women of youth participation in the health system by means ofdevelopment and training of women and youth as well as promotion of sustainable existenceensuring of groups with more optimized usage of locally available resources specially toreduce and promote infrastructure development and dialogue with the government.

3. Educating of children via environmental education by involving topics of nutritionand sustainable development with practical methods.

Project Goals

• 3.911 households in 22 communities in Sundargarh and Keonjhar should become selfdependentin food supply, overcome malnutrition and have expanded their localpossibilities towards ensuring income generating.

Activities

• Seed bank creation
• Food bank creation
• Training for farmers
• Training for farmer groups in villages
• Poultry breeding
• Kitchen gardens
• Awareness campaign for promotion of local food items: The following activities will

promote food items from the forest, local seeds and diversification of cultivation in

the region.

• Seasonal seed fairs
• Festival of Foodstuff from the forest
• Cooking competition
• Cook book
• Nutritional training for mother
• Health awareness camps
• Networking meeting at district, state and national level
• Workshop at district level
• Counselling at state level
• National congress on nutritional self-dependence
• Protection and regeneration of forests
• Strengthening of the  forest protection committees
• Education in community forest management
• Afforestation
• Organization and Strengthening of women groups
• Training for women groups:
• Support of women groups for income generation
• Workshops on ecological children’s rights
• Eco-clubs at school level
• Campaign on sustainable development
• Children and youth camps
• School gardens
• Practical environment education
• Training Project staff
• IEC-Materials