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.

Activities

• Seed bank promotion, Seasonal seed fairs
• Poultry ,Goatary  support
• Kitchen gardens seed support
• Local food Festival of local  Foodstuff
• Cooking competition and cook book preparation
• Nutritional training for mother
• Health awareness camps
• Awareness Protection and regeneration of forests, Afforestation, plantation of fruit , flower and forest  plants
• Training of   forest protection committees-Bana surakhya samiti
• Organization and Strengthening of women SHG  groups
• Training for women SHG  groups:
• Support of women  SHG groups for development of income generation activities
• Training for farmers on organic farming ,SRI  and SEED Support -Millet and local paddy seeds
• Workshops  at district, state and National  level on nutrition
• Strengthening Eco-clubs at school level
• Training to children
• Campaign on sustainable development
• School gardens promotion
• IEC-Materials
• 600 families from 6 villages supported dry ration and hygiene kit for COVID response