FUNDING NATURAL RESOURCE MANAGEMENT PROJECTS
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Welthungerhilfe helps community in India fight poverty by: Boosting crop yield while saving the environment, creating sustainable watershed models, improving healthcare, ensuring that children, particularly girls receive education, helping to promote self reliance and empowering women to initiate self administered credit funds and marketing products.
About You
Section 1: About You
First Name
NIVEDITA
Last Name
VARSHNEYA
Organization
Deutsche Welthungerhilfre / German Agro Action
Country
India
Section 2: About Your Organization
Organization Name
Welthungerhilfe India
Organization Website
Organization Phone
+91 11 40520132 / 143 / 134
Organization Address
Deutsche Welthungerhilfre / German Agro Action, (DWHH/GAA) Liaison Office India, B-4, Greater Kailash Enclave, Part II, New Delh
Organization Country
India
Your idea
Name Your Project
FUNDING NATURAL RESOURCE MANAGEMENT PROJECTS
Country your work focuses on
India
What makes your approach innovative?
We fund innovative, sustainable natural resource management projects that have potencial for upscaling and replication. We also look at the potential of the project to impact government policies so that post our funding period, there is a convergence of the projects with government schemes alongside community ownership. To site an example, in sunderbuns we have a soil and water conservation project integrated with diversified farming. We look at innovative processes or different objectives that we can achieve through the projects. We support biodiversity projects.
Describe Your Idea
Welthungerhilfe helps community in India fight poverty by: Boosting crop yield while saving the environment, creating sustainable watershed models, improving healthcare, ensuring that children, particularly girls receive education, helping to promote self reliance and empowering women to initiate self administered credit funds and marketing products.
How will you sustain your solution?
Welthungerhilfe is one of the largest non-governmental organisations in Germany. Non-profit making, non-denominational and politically independent, it is run by a board of honorary members under the patronage of the Federal Republic of Germany. Its work is funded by private donations and public grants.
What will be the impact of your solution?
OUR CASE STUDY FROM SUNDERBUNS: Introduction of high-yield varieties of paddy had gradually pushed the traditional saline-tolerant varieties to extinction as delta dwellers preferred cultivating the former. "As the population rose and the number of mouths in a family went up, people turned to the high-yielding paddy which doubled the crop quantity. Gradually, the cultivation of traditional paddy stopped and their seeds became rare. Traditional varieties are saline-tolerant, the rice tastes better and the straw gives a better thatch. But, genetically modified varieties score over them by higher yield within a much shorter time. Cyclone Aila altered all calculations this year. The high-yielding paddy died soon after sowed on the fields. It can grow when the soil salinity is below one milimose. But it rose to 12 milimose after cyclone and gradually came down to 3 milimose which traditional paddy can tolerate. Hit by crop failure due to increased salinity through sea water surge, farmers of the cyclone-hit villages of the Sundarbans areas are now reverting to cultivation of traditional low-yield paddy in the hope that it would feed them next year. The fields of Sundarbans delta ren
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Instead of being pro or anti GMO, it sounds like you focus on research, regulation, innovation and impact. Am I accurate about this? It seems like a very logical approach.
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