WHO WE ARE

Living Farms was initiated in 2008 based in Odisha, India. The organisation engages with local communities in rural Odisha to cultivate critical consciousness; and nurture the ability to objectively analyze the root causes of the current crisis. We do not limit our efforts to address immediate problems, but have been partnering with local communities to respond to the challenges and help create linkages and solidarities between different local grassroots initiatives, academia, researchers, media, and the government, by fostering innovative dialogues in meaningful ways, valuing local and traditional knowledges and stimulate ethical action for our collective wellbeing, and address ecological crisis.
As an organization with respect on the abilities and wisdom of local communities, especially women, Living Farms has been partnering with them in understanding the underlying ethos of their perspectives, and to further strengthen their preparedness to not only recognize and analyze the nature and causes of the issues in the context of food, and nutrition security that affect them, but also to evolve locally appropriate empowering solutions through action research and / or adapt successful models to address household food insecurity, reduce maternal and child under nutrition and contribute to wellbeing of communities. It helps in development of local leadership, horizontal networking amongst villages and deepening and widening the impact of the change process.