MH (13)
BR (13)
KL (10)
TN (19)
Systemic Approach: Looking at the Entire Food Value Chain
Navigating Climate Uncertainty: Droughts • Floods • Pest & Disease • Heat Stress • Cyclones
Land Use Change
Resilient Farming
Low-Carbon Transport
Direct Marketing & FPOs
Conscious Consumer
Waste to Biomass
Healthy & Living Soils
Soil sponge regeneration, microbial life, and organic carbon building.
Water & Moisture Security
Decentralized water budgeting, farm ponds, and drought resilience.
Agro-Diversity
Heritage millets, indigenous seeds, agroforestry, and livestock integration.
Local Governance & Knowledge
Panchayat stewardship, traditional ecological knowledge, and women collectives.
Climate Safety Nets
Community insurance, risk buffers, and seed safety banks.
Pest & Disease Resilience
Ecological pest management, non-pesticidal shields, and polyculture buffers.
Energy Efficiency & Renewables
Solar irrigation pumps, energy-smart farm machinery, and biomass loops.
Nowcasting & Advisories
Hyperlocal weather alerts and timely farmer-to-farmer crop advisories.
55
Activities Tracked
20
Focus Group Discussions (FGD)
7
Convenings & Seed Festivals
7
Field Visits & Studies
252
Field Photos (190+ Kerala)
50
Field Videos & Testimonies
19
Reports & Documentation
28
Stakeholder Profiles
24
Geospatial Field Locations
Multi-State Operational Scorecard & Delivery Matrix
Comparative analysis across Maharashtra, Bihar, Kerala & Tamil Nadu
Activities Distribution by State
55 Activities
Program Interventions & Methodologies
6 Core Categories
Ground Stakeholder Occupations Landscape
28 Curated Profiles
Implementation Status & Milestones
Q1 & Q2 Delivery
State Operational Landscapes & Thematic Focus
Direct links to source Google SpreadsheetsMaharashtra
13 Activities • 14 Photos • 49 Videos
Marathwada Agroecology Corridor: Addressing recurring droughts, unseasonal flash floods, input-intensive soybean monocropping, and women smallholders' health across Dharashiv, Latur, & Beed.
- In-depth FGD with 22 Women Farmers in Kaneri Village (Ausa Block)
- 49 field video recordings & farmer testimonies from Marathwada
- Strategic alliances with SSP, WOTR, AFARM, MANAVLOK, and MGVS
Bihar
13 Activities • 13 Photos
Agro-Climatic Zones & Capacity Building: Spanning Zone 1 (NW), Zone 2 (NE Kosi Basin), and Zone 3A/3B (South Bihar) on CRA policy and farmer livelihoods.
- KGVK Facilitator Capacity Building Workshops (Q1 & Q2) in Patna
- Prakritika 4th Anindo Banerjee Organic Food and Seed Diversity Festival
- Multi-District FGDs & Trend Analysis in Samastipur, Supaul, Lakhisarai, Begusarai, & Nalanda
Kerala
10 Activities • 190 Photos • 1 Video
High Ranges & Agroforestry: Exploring carbon neutrality, traditional seed conservation, and plantation agroecology across Wayanad, Idukki, Thrissur, & Palakkad.
- Field Study of India's Pioneer Carbon Neutral Coffee Initiative in Meenangadi
- Field Visits to Tapco & Humes Estates, Pambavally FPO, and Alathur Seed Farm
- 190 high-res field photos covering all 10 activities & Kudumbashree JLGs
Tamil Nadu
19 Activities • 35 Photos
Cauvery Delta & Agroecology Futures: Multi-stakeholder dialogues, state government convergence, farmer unions, and extensive popular communication across Thiruvarur, Mayiladuthurai, & Nagapattinam.
- Comprehensive FGDs with Agri-dealers, millers, and union leaders in Thiruvarur
- State Department consultations (AED e-Vaadagai, PMKSY, CRA Directorates)
- Popular Education Comics & Booklet: தமிழ்நாட்டில் விவசாய சூழலியல்
Field Photo Archive & Ground Evidence
252 Field Photos Available
Kerala Photos Drive (190+ Photos)
Field Video Archive & Ground Evidence
50 Field Videos Available
Maharashtra Video Drive (49 Videos)
Frontline Ground Stories & Agroecology Narratives
9 In-Depth Field Stories Available
Ground Stakeholder Profiles & Occupational Landscape
28 Stakeholder Profiles Available
Multi-State Coalition • 2 Co-Leads & 14 Alliances
Implementing Partners & Institutional Alliances
The Alliance for Climate Resilient Agriculture (ACRA) is co-led by Citizen Consumer and Civic Action Group (CAG) and Asar Social Impact Advisors (Asar), driving action research, policy advocacy, and coalition building in direct partnership with grassroots institutions across Maharashtra, Bihar, Kerala, and Tamil Nadu.
Co-Led Implementing Partners • Strategic Consortium Leadership
Alliance Co-Leads
Asar Social Impact Advisors
Climate Strategy, Action Research & Multi-Stakeholder Coalition
Asar Social Impact Advisors is an organization in the environment and social justice impact space with a commitment to building climate resilience and ambitious climate action. We identify challenges and opportunities, research them, verify ground truths, and understand local contexts, in order to build innovative strategies that are rooted in reality. Asar convenes multi-stakeholder conversations and helps build relationships between various key actors to be able to sustain collaborations essential to deliver real-world impact.
Citizen consumer and civic Action Group (CAG)
Civic Action, Policy Advocacy, Governance & Peasant Rights
Citizen Consumer and Civic Action Group (CAG) is a non-profit, non-political, professional organization that works on environmental protection, consumer rights, good governance, and citizen participation through research, policy advocacy, and public interest action. Established in 1985, CAG works to protect citizens' rights in environment, civic issues, and climate resilience, promoting sustainable agriculture policies, smallholder welfare, and ecological justice.
Asar (Co-Lead)
CAG (Co-Lead)
MGVS
MANAVLOK
SSP
AIKS
Regen. Bihar
EWET
SNEHA
ExNoRa
Poovulagin
Cauvery Delta
Co-Lead • Multi-State
Asar • Social Impact Advisors
Co-Led Implementing Partner • Climate strategy, ground truth research, action synthesis, and multi-stakeholder convenings across 4 states. asar.co.in →
Co-Lead • Multi-State
CAG • Citizen consumer and civic Action Group
Co-Led Implementing Partner • Environmental protection, policy advocacy, citizen governance, and agrarian economics research. cag.org.in →
Maharashtra
SSP • Swayam Shikshan Prayog
Margin to Mainstream • Women farmer collective mobilization, one-acre agroecology model, and climate resilience in Marathwada.
Maharashtra
MANAVLOK • Rural Reshaping
An Experiment in Rural Reshaping • Watershed management, community check dams, drought-proofing, and smallholder farmer producer groups across Beed & Dharashiv.
Maharashtra
MGVS • Marathwada Gramin Vikas Sanstha
Watershed development, soil health rejuvenation, drought mitigation, and sustainable farmer producer organization technical assistance.
Maharashtra
WOTR • Watershed Organisation Trust
Ecosystem-based adaptation (EbA), local water budgeting, and sustainable land management research across semi-arid regions.
National
AIKS • All India Kisan Sabha
Historic smallholder farmer mobilization, agrarian policy analysis, land rights protection, and grassroots climate justice advocacy in Bihar & Maharashtra.
Bihar
JEEViKA Didis • Prakritika Seed Network
Community seed banks, heritage millet revitalization (Kodo, Madua, Cheena), and diara riverine agroecology across Supaul, Lakhisarai, and Begusarai.
Bihar
KGVK • Krishi Gram Vikas Kendra
Grassroots facilitator capacity building, sustainable rice-wheat crop systems, and agro-climatic zone research.
Bihar • 12 Districts
Regenerative Bihar • Agroecology Collective
Collective of agroecology practitioners, promoters, farmers, civil society organisations, climate campaigners & concerned consumers creating an enabling environment for small & marginal farmers across 12 districts of Bihar to move towards climate resilient and sustainable farming: conserving farmers' seeds, growing regenerative nutrition gardens, establishing Bio-input Resource Centres & evolving women ecopreneurship models.
Kerala
EWET • Endangered Wildlife & Env. Trust
Biodiversity conservation, living agroforestry landscapes, human-wildlife coexistence, and Western Ghats shade canopy preservation.
Kerala
Kudumbashree • Joint Liability Groups
State poverty eradication mission, collective women's fallow land farming, and wetland agroecology in Thrissur and Wayanad.
Kerala
Salim Ali Foundation • Meenangadi Panchayat
Pioneer carbon-neutral coffee landscapes, tree banking, microclimate stabilization, and participatory carbon accounting in Wayanad.
Tamil Nadu
Poovulagin Nanbargal (பூவுலகின் நண்பர்கள்)
Environmental justice campaigns, popular education agroecology comic books ('தமிழ்நாட்டில் விவசாய சூழலியல்'), and youth climate communications.
Tamil Nadu
ExNoRa International
Community water body rehabilitation, traditional temple tank restoration, decentralised composting, and community environmental stewardship.
Tamil Nadu
Cauvery Delta Irrigation Structure Mgmt.
காவேரி வடிநில பாசன கட்டமைப்பு மேலாண்மை குழு • Delta water democracy, canal structure management, and direct seeded rice (DSR) mechanization.
Tamil Nadu
SNEHA • Coastal Women Collective
Social Need Education and Human Awareness • Coastal women's empowerment, artisanal fisheries protection, and coastal agroecology.
Tamil Nadu Hub
CAG • Tamil Nadu State Coordination
Co-Led Implementing Partner • Cauvery Delta multi-stakeholder consultations, government policy advocacy, agricultural economics, and farmer policy briefs. cag.org.in →
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