Sustainable Agriculture and Land Rights
Objectives
- Help small / marginal farmers and landless laborers particularly belonging to schedules castes in accessing and establishing rights over land to support livelihood
- Assessment of land related disputes [encroachment and ownership issues]
- Identification of families for resolving land ownership issues
- Establishing women’s rights over land
- Educate Support And Training to small and marginal farmers
Interventions
- Village level consultations
- Jan Sunwai [Public Hearings]
- Training Programs
- Exposure Visits
- Analyzing land maps
- Formation of a forum-Bundelkhand Bhoomi Adhikar Manch
- Developing dissemination material on land rights
- Organization of a Mahila Kisan Abhiyan Rally
- Land development
Outputs
- No. of public hearings held 7
- No. of exposure visits conducted 11
- No. of training programs organized-29 and
- No. of people received training-900
- Distribution of 90 acres of land
- Awareness generation among 1734 women on their right to land
- No. of women participated in Mahila Kisan Abhiyan Rally-4149
- Dissemination / training material developed
Impacts
- Formation of Bundelkhand Bhoomi Adhikar Manch
- Actions taken by Bundelkhand Bhoomi Adhikar Manch
- No. of cases of disputes over land solved -460
- Formation of a district level committee to resolve land issues
- Actions taken by district level committee
- No. of landless laborers turned their fortunes by becoming farmers-102
- Increase in income [Rs. 1200 per month]in case of 10 % of families
- Increase in food security [in case of 350 families for 6 months]
- No. of families who have accepted joint [husband-wife] ownership of land-58
- Instances of sensitized and responsive government machinery