rice bea competency survey 2

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Survey Questionnaire on Ecological Agriculture Page 1 of 14

SURVEY QUESTIONNNAIRE ON BIODIVERSITY-BASED ECOLOGICAL AGRICULTUREPesticide Action Network - Asia Pacific (PAN AP)

SAVE OUR RICE CAMPAIGN

RECORD Questionnaire Code

SOCIETY FOR RURAL EDUCATION AND DEVELOPMENT - SRED

CountryINDIA

INFORMATION ON RESPONDENT

Name of RespondentVIMALA.R.

TREASURER

TWENTY YEARS

E-mail addressburnad @md3.vsnl.net.in

Web/Homepage address

Signature: Date:

Name of PAN-AP Partner(full name and acronym)

Position in the

Organization

Number of Years inService


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I. INFORMATION ON PARTNER ORGANIZATION

biodiversity-based ecological agriculture

upland agriculture or agroforestry

governance

enterprise/marketing/livelihood Kitchen gardening, Local Marketing

food sovereignty

women

others, please specify: Globalisation and its impact on Dalits

peasant/farmer 135 groups throughout the State

fisherfolk30 groups

women 155 groups

youth 15 Youth Centers

indigenous peoples25 groups

Dalits 120 groups

government

others, please specify:

Organization'svision/mission statement

The vision of SRED is to ensure a comprehensive development of women with a motive to atttaina 'just society' whereequality is the trust for human development without any prejudice towardsgender caste and class

Organization's goals andobjectives

To empower women to live by themselves,To train women in technical skills,To equip them withknowledge in health and hygiene,To educate and train the rural poor mainly the landlesslabourers to become consious and to take active participation in the social developmentalprocess.To mobilise the unorganised sectors

Main programs ordepartments of theorganization

To eradicate Untouchability and Caste System,To campaign on Land and Food withoutPoison,To campaign on violence against women,To campaign against child labour,To campaignon women's health rights,To campaign against WTO, To campaign against war and terrorism,Tocampaign against fundamentalism,To campaign against Globalisation

Main services beingprovided by theorganization

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

Programs, services, andareas of concern of theorganization (check andindicate program title onright box)

Training on organic farming,CommunityPesticide Action Monitoringtraining,Vermiculture training

Campaigning on land and food withoutpoison, WORA - 2007,Training on GMOand its impact, Food Festival

Globalisation it impact on women, Womenand Land Rights. Studies on the impact ofthe AOA

Target groups/sectors(Indicate estimate/numberin each sector)


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Registration Copy, Bye laws enclosedOrganizational informationenclosed here


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II. GENERAL INFORMATION ON BIODIVERSITY-BASED ECOLOGICAL AGRICULTURE PROGRAM

Title of program Week Of Rice Action

Year established 2007

Vimala. R.

Campaign by bullock cart with banners

Distributing hand bills, Raising slogans

Signature campaign

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

Personnel/staff

no. of regular/core staff - 26

no. of non-regular staff - 15

no. of volunteers in the program - 35

no. of staff with advocacy skills - 2

Others, please specify Pls write details

Name of program head ormanager

Program components(check and indicateprogram title on right box)

Project/Serviceareas/sites (villages,towns, municipalities,provinces, districts orregions)

no. of staff with technical skills: 5 Pls write their skills hereComputers

no. of staff with training skills - 7 Pls write training subjects or fields-Community Pesticide Action Monitoring,On GMO, OnFood Sovereignty OnSustainable Agriculture

Throughout the State ,survey was done on

Public Distribution System and interactedwith the Food Ministry.


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S Q ti i E l i l A i lt

III INFORMATION ON SCOPE OF BIODIVERSITY-BASED ECOLOGICAL AGRICULTURE PROGRAM

IIIA

IIIB Scope of work in genetics conservation

IIIC Scope of work in organic marketing & certification

Scope of work in organic crop production

agroecosystems (what types of agroecosystems are your projects found)?

____ upland

____ mid-slopesyes 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

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?) In 3districts 3500 families are involving for Rice Seed Conservation, 1700families are involving for vegetable seed conservation.

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 Se edexhibition

seed types conserved (what types of seeds do you conserve and/or develop?) Seedpreserved with red sand by using mud pot and cover with cow dong and straw

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

organic products produced for market (what crops and products do you bring to the organic market? what labels orstandards 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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IV INFORMATION ON STRATEGIES OF BIODIVERSITY-BASED ECOLOGICAL AGRICULTURE PROGRAM

IVA Campaign & policy advocacy

Farmers, Women, Dalits, Consumers, Children, Irulas

IVB Projects

Sustainable agriculture

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

IVD Information dissemination

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'

issues (what issues or concernson BEA do you address with

policy advocacy??

More pesticide using, Companies are taking agriculture lands, f louri culture, aqua culture,

GMO's impact

sectors (what sectors areinvolved or mobilized?)

activities (what kinds of activitiesdo your policy advocacy &campaigns related to BEAconsist of?)

Studies on impact of the AOA on small scale rice producers and in the flouri culture atthe local level, Campaign against Pesticide use, Legal action taken against aquaculture.

important campaigns (what wereyour most important campaignson BEA? which of these havebeen successful?)

Pesticide sales in the provision shop, against the pesticide campaign, the pesticidesales was closed at Arigilpadi village.

projects (what are your projectsrelated to BEA? e.g., foodproductivity, seed conservation,etc.)

sectors (what sectors areinvolved?)

scale (what is the scale of yourBEA projects. i.e., number ofcommunities involved?)

best practices (what do youconsider as your mostsuccessful projects in terms ofproducing best practices? why?)

types of training (what types oftrainings do you conduct?Indicate their titles and targetsector/s)

Community Pesticide Action Monitoring - farmers, women, Dalits, Pesticide sales agents OnGMO - Farmers, Consumers, Dalits, Lawyers and women,

On SEZ and its impact - Land owners, farmers, PublicGlobalization and its impact - Women's

group, Dalits, Irulas, farmers Organic Farming- Farmers, Pesticide sprayers, women

training expertise (what are thetraining areas you are mostexpert with?) Community Pesticide Action Monitoring, GMO's, Globalization its impact

training modules (indicate titlesof training modules you have.)

Warning Pesticide Hand book,Modules of Food Sovereignity

publications (what are yourpublications in relation to BEA?)

audio-visual (what are youraudio-visual productions relatedto BEA?)

resource centre (do you have a


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