Indigenous Wisdom for Organic Farms

Support a farmer in India to receive the training, marketing support, and native seeds to develop an organic farm using indigenous farming techniques.

Navdanya, established by the revolutionary environmentalist Dr. Vandana Shiva, supports farmers in Central India in re-learning ancestral organic farming and harvesting techniques instead of relying on export-oriented farming techniques to increase crop yield. Industrial farming has devastating effects on farming communities in India; farmers are unable to keep up with rising costs of products, such as corporate seeds that cannot be saved and need a constant supply of fertilizers and pesticides to maintain. Since 1997, more than twenty-five thousand farmers have committed suicide – often by swallowing pesticides - to escape huge farming debts.

Your gift will provide a farmer who owns a quarter acre of land with the resources and training to nurture a pesticide-free organic farm. Ancient seed-saving techniques, fertile soil and abundant harvests will provide economic stability for a secure future.

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