Rice Bea Competency Survey 2

SURVEY QUESTIONNNAIRE ON BIODIVERSITY-BASED ECOLOGICAL AGRICULTURE Pesticide Action Network - Asia Pacific (PAN AP) SAVE OUR RICE CAMPAIGN

RECORD

Questionnaire Code

Name of PAN-AP Partner (full name and acronym) SOCIETY FOR RURAL EDUCATION AND DEVELOPMENT - SRED

Country

INDIA

INFORMATION ON RESPONDENT Name of Respondent Position in the Organization Number of Years in Service E-mail address

VIMALA.R.

TREASURER TWENTY YEARS burnad @md3.vsnl.net.in

Web/Homepage address

Signature:

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Date:

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INFORMATION ON PARTNER ORGANIZATION

Organization's vision/mission statement

The vision of SRED is to ensure a comprehensive development of women with a motive to atttain a 'just society' where equality is the trust for human development without any prejudice towards gender caste and class

Organization's goals and objectives

To empower women to live by themselves,To train women in technical skills,To equip them with knowledge in health and hygiene,To educate and train the rural poor mainly the landless labourers to become consious and to take active participation in the social developmental process.To mobilise the unorganised sectors

Main programs or departments of the organization

To eradicate Untouchability and Caste System,To campaign on Land and Food without Poison,To campaign on violence against women,To campaign against child labour,To campaign on women's health rights,To campaign against WTO, To campaign against war and terrorism,To campaign against fundamentalism,To campaign against Globalisation

Main services being provided by the organization

Education,Mobilisation,Organising,Lobbying and Advocacy,Collective action,Alliance Building,Networking,Forum Formation,Campaigns,Solidarity Action

biodiversity-based ecological agriculture

Training on organic farming,Community Pesticide Action Monitoring training,Vermiculture training

upland agriculture or agroforestry governance

Programs, services, and areas of concern of the organization (check and indicate program title on right box)

enterprise/marketing/livelihood

Kitchen gardening, Local Marketing

food sovereignty

Campaigning on land and food without poison, WORA - 2007,Training on GMO and its impact, Food Festival

women

Globalisation it impact on women, Women and Land Rights. Studies on the impact of the AOA

others, please specify:

Globalisation and its impact on Dalits

peasant/farmer fisherfolk

30 groups

women

155 groups

youth

Target groups/sectors (Indicate estimate/number in each sector)

135 groups throughout the State

15 Youth Centers

indigenous peoples

25 groups

Dalits

120 groups

government others, please specify:

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Organizational information Registration Copy, Bye laws enclosed enclosed here

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II.

GENERAL INFORMATION ON BIODIVERSITY-BASED ECOLOGICAL AGRICULTURE PROGRAM

Title of program

Week Of Rice Action

Year established

2007

Name of program head or manager

Vimala. R. Campaign by bullock cart with banners Distributing hand bills, Raising slogans Signature campaign

Program components (check and indicate program title on right box)

Screening of the 'Rice the Life of Asia' Cultural programme, Protest infront of Pesticide shops Symposium, Seed Festival Distributing module of Food Sovereignty Campaign through villages, and towns State level symposium and Signature campaign

Project/Service areas/sites (villages, towns, municipalities, provinces, districts or regions)

no. of regular/core staff - 26 no. of non-regular staff -

15

no. of volunteers in the program - 35 no. of staff with technical skills:

Personnel/staff

no. of staff with training skills

5 Pls write their skills here Computers

- 7

Pls write training subjects or fieldsCommunity Pesticide Action Monitoring, On GMO, On Food Sovereignty On Sustainable Agriculture

no. of staff with advocacy skills - 2

Throughout the State ,survey was done on Public Distribution System and interacted with the Food Ministry.

Others, please specify

Pls write details

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INFORMATION ON SCOPE OF BIODIVERSITY-BASED ECOLOGICAL AGRICULTURE PROGRAM

IIIA Scope of work in organic crop production agroecosystems (what types of agroecosystems are your projects found)? ____ upland ____ mid-slopes yes lowland ____ others, pls specify

crop types (what types of crops are organically grown? ) staple crops (eg. rice) Rice, Ragi vegetable crops

Egg plant, tomato, ladies finger, musroom

fruit trees _ Banana, papaya, jack fruits, water millon, mangos herbal plants & medicinal plants _ Keela nelli, Tulasi, Sothu kathalai, Drum stick others, pls specify - Black gram, Dall varities

technologies (what technologies are being applied and developed (e.g., diversified cropping, APM, etc): Drop watering method

indigenous knowledge systems (what are examples of IKS that you are applying and developing?)

facilities (demonstration farm, training center, etc): Demonstration Organic Farm, Training centre

IIIB Scope of work in genetics conservation in situ seed conservation (what type of seed conservation do you do? e.g., community seedbanking) Community seed banking

scale of your seed conservation work (how many communities in your estimate are involved?) districts 3500 families are involving for Rice Seed Conservation, families are involving for vegetable seed conservation.

In 3 1700

ex situ seedbank, if any (pls describe)

seed development and propagation (what method of seed development, e.g., breeding do you do?) Through seed exchange programme for farmers exhibition seed types conserved (what types of seeds do you conserve and/or develop?) preserved with red sand by using mud pot and cover with cow dong and straw

Se ed

Seed

information or database (do you keep a record or database of your seed collection?)

IIIC Scope of work in organic marketing & certification organic products produced for market (what crops and products do you bring to the organic market? what labels or standards are placed on them e.g., organically produced?) Peanut, vegetables, Rice, mushroom, Banana, papaya and jack fruits when marketing by demo only we explain the organic product.

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organic products for certification (are your products organically certified? what type of certification e..g., community. national?) - Community level certification

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INFORMATION ON STRATEGIES OF BIODIVERSITY-BASED ECOLOGICAL AGRICULTURE PROGRAM

IVA Campaign & policy advocacy issues (what issues or concerns More pesticide using, Companies are taking agriculture lands, flouri culture, aqua culture, on BEA do you address with GMO's impact policy advocacy?? sectors (what sectors are involved or mobilized?)

Farmers, Women, Dalits, Consumers, Children, Irulas

activities (what kinds of activities Studies on impact of the AOA on small scale rice producers and in the flouri culture at do your policy advocacy & the local level, Campaign against Pesticide use, Legal action taken against aqua campaigns related to BEA culture. consist of?) important campaigns (what were your most important campaigns Pesticide sales in the provision shop, against the pesticide campaign, the pesticide on BEA? which of these have sales was closed at Arigilpadi village. been successful?)

IVB Projects projects (what are your projects related to BEA? e.g., food productivity, seed conservation, Sustainable agriculture etc.) sectors (what sectors are involved?) scale (what is the scale of your BEA projects. i.e., number of communities involved?) best practices (what do you consider as your most successful projects in terms of producing best practices? why?)

Agriculture land owners, small farmers, agriculture labourers, women, Dalits

In each program more than 150 communities were involved.

Using Vermi culture, Using Organic fertilizer, Natural pest control

IVC Training/Capacity building types of training (what types of trainings do you conduct? Indicate their titles and target sector/s)

training expertise (what are the training areas you are most expert with?)

Community Pesticide Action Monitoring - farmers, women, Dalits, Pesticide sales agents On GMO - Farmers, Consumers, Dalits, Lawyers and women, On SEZ and its impact - Land owners, farmers, Public Globalization and its impact - Women's group, Dalits, Irulas, farmers Organic Farming - Farmers, Pesticide sprayers, women

Community Pesticide Action Monitoring, GMO's, Globalization its impact

training modules (indicate titles of training modules you have.) Warning Pesticide Hand book, Modules of Food Sovereignity

IVD Information dissemination publications (what are your publications in relation to BEA?)

audio-visual (what are your audio-visual productions related to BEA?) resource centre (do you have a library dedicated to BEA materials (books, magazines, audio-visuals, etc)?

Publication about Panchakaviyam (about Natural pesticides nd Vermi culture)

Women farmers songs audio about traditional farming, and traditional seed varities

We have books, magazine (Pasumai vikadan), Video about 'Rice-the life of Asia'

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