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Cluster Level Facilitator (CLF): Adding Value to Smallholder led Value Chain
Mandla district of Madhya Pradesh is famous for its rich natural resources and yet it is one of the most backward areas in the State. Low food productivity, high dependence on wages, increased sale of fuelwood and high incidences of migration are some of the critical issues in the region. Since Cereals like paddy and…
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Smallholders access to Land Rights: A step towards SDG 2
Access to land, tenure security and sustainable use of land are essential to achieve food and nutrition security and Zero Hunger (Sustainable Development Goal 2). We cannot achieve food and nutrition security or even for that matter poverty reduction unless the issues related to access to land, tenure security and sustainable use of land are…
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Duck Farming: Rozina Leads the way
Food and nutritional security is one of the major challenges that the smallholders and other marginalised communities face in the era of global health and environmental problems such as the pandemics and climate change, including biodiversity loss. Smallholder farmers are now adopting practices that reduce the impact of climate change impacts and more importantly, the…
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Small irrigation schemes brings back big hopes for smallholder farmers
“Despite of having big opportunity to cultivate additional crops in winter, we had to leave most of our land fallow because of no irrigation facilities in this area.” said Ms. Geeta Tharu, when SAFBIN visited her field in Beluwa of Bardia distrct. This was not only her and her community’s story but there were more…
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Smallholders in Bangladesh transform their drought-prone farms
Four years ago, when SAFBIN started working with 405 smallholder families in Tanore of Rajshahi, Bangladesh, increasing agricultural production in this drought-prone Barind region was a challenging task. But farmers like Ms. Akhtara Begum (42) accepted that challenge. She is a progressive farmer from Chimna village. Her husband Md. Ruhul Amin (47) inherits a piece…
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Farmer collectives promote pollinator-friendly practices for healthy and functioning ecosystem services and sustainability of agriculture.
SAFBIN programme in Bangladesh is promoting pollinator-friendly practices by introducing and expanding the population of natural pollinators and predators. In 2021, SAFBIN started working to increase the natural pollination of fruits and crops through honey bees. The smallholder farmer collectives headed by Md. Sader Ali in Paba district, started keeping bees to increase natural pollinators and also collect…
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Safia’s Homestead: A source of additional Income
Safia bibi, a smallholder farmer from village 36/SB of Sargodha district in Pakistan has come a long way. With her son working as daily wage laborer, the only other income comes from selling milk in her village. Motivated by SAFBIN awareness and capacity building sessions on various topics that included farm diversification, green manuring and…
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Vermi-composting: A solution to Climate Change and Resilience
Climate change has been creating huge challenges to smallholder farms by causing prolonged droughts and erratic rainfall leading to reduced water retention capacity of the soil, increased erosion and biodiversity loss. Agro-ecological practices like composting can increase water efficiency and the building up of healthy soils. Compost that is incorporated into the soil not only…
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Collectivization is Strength-Smallholders Collectives show the way
There are many millions of small farmers in Pakistan who grow crops, catch fish, rear poultry or keep farm animals but they consume almost everything they produce. Their cost of production is also higher which ultimately reduces their profit margin. Sometimes farmers do a lot of manual labor themselves due to which sowing or harvesting…