Strengthening Food Sovereignty for Indigenous People through a Community-Based, Gender-Sensitive, and Participatory Food Security Model in India

The project aims to improve food sovereignty and nutrition security for 5,063 households in the Rayagada and Kalahandi by promoting agro-ecological farming, strengthening community-based forest management, increasing awareness of government food security programs, enabling youth groups for environment protection, sensitising women on health and nutrition. It is envisaged that by the end of the project, 5,063 households in Rayagada and are resilient to hunger crises and capable of advocating for their forest rights with civil society stakeholders at regional and national levels.

This intervention is jointly financed by Terre des Hommes Germany and the German Federal Ministry for Economic Cooperation and Development (BMZ). It is being implemented from 2022 to 2026 in the Kalahandi and Rayagada districts of Odisha.