Interview with Heiner Baumann and Jonathan Faull (CASH Coalition)
The Climate Action for Smallholders Coalition (CASH Coalition) aims to make regenerative agriculture and climate action profitable for smallholder farmers.
In India, many poor rural communities rely on publicly-owned lands for their food and livelihood. Yet due to the perception that these land are wastelands, there’s a constant pressure to either neglect them or make them productive–resulting in overexploitation and degradation. “As if land can ever be a waste,” says Jagdeesh Rao, founder of Foundation for Ecological Security, which helps villagers legal rights to access, improve, and manage their common lands. About Jagdeesh Rao: Jagdeesh had little knowledge or experience of rural life until his university studies took him to a village barely 100 kilometers from Hyderabad, where he was shocked by the evidence of inequality and the stark poverty that persisted in India, even 40 years after independence. He felt an affinity for those who suffered from discrimination, and worked throughout the 1980s and 1990s with rural communities struggling with issues of poverty and environmental degradation.The Skoll Awardee is Chief Executive of FES.
The Climate Action for Smallholders Coalition (CASH Coalition) aims to make regenerative agriculture and climate action profitable for smallholder farmers.
In many parts of the world, not owning one’s own land is more directly correlated to poverty than other factors
If Not Us Then Who supports environmental leadership from indigenous peoples and local communities to build networks and cultivate inclusive
Grameen Foundation works with local organizations to bring resources and information to people experiencing poverty, particularly women and girls. Zubaida
AVPN is a social investment network that works to increase the flow of financial, human, and intellectual capital from Asia
The Roosevelt Institute is a think tank, a student network, and the nonprofit partner to the Franklin D. Roosevelt Presidential