SURVEY QUESTIONNNAIRE ON BIODIVERSITY-BASED ECOLOGICAL AGRICULTURE

Pesticide Action Network - Asia Pacific (PAN AP)

SAVE OUR RICE CAMPAIGN

RECORD Questionnaire Code

Name of PAN-AP Partner

(full name and acronym)
SOCIETY FOR RURAL EDUCATION AND DEVELOPMENT - SRED

Country
INDIA

INFORMATION ON RESPONDENT

VIMALA.R.
Name of Respondent

Position in the
Organization TREASURER
Number of Years in
Service TWENTY YEARS
E-mail address
burnad @md3.vsnl.net.in

Web/Homepage address

Signature: Date:

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I. INFORMATION ON PARTNER ORGANIZATION

The vision of SRED is to ensure a comprehensive development of women with a motive to atttain
Organization's
a 'just society' where equality is the trust for human development without any prejudice towards
vision/mission statement gender caste and class

To empower women to live by themselves,To train women in technical skills,To equip them with
Organization's goals and knowledge in health and hygiene,To educate and train the rural poor mainly the landless
objectives labourers to become consious and to take active participation in the social developmental
process.To mobilise the unorganised sectors

Main programs or To eradicate Untouchability and Caste System,To campaign on Land and Food without
Poison,To campaign on violence against women,To campaign against child labour,To campaign
departments of the on women's health rights,To campaign against WTO, To campaign against war and terrorism,To
organization campaign against fundamentalism,To campaign against Globalisation

Main services being

Education,Mobilisation,Organising,Lobbying and Advocacy,Collective action,Alliance
provided by the Building,Networking,Forum Formation,Campaigns,Solidarity Action
organization

Training on organic farming,Community

biodiversity-based ecological agriculture Pesticide Action Monitoring
training,Vermiculture training

upland agriculture or agroforestry

governance

enterprise/marketing/livelihood Kitchen gardening, Local Marketing

Programs, services, and

areas of concern of the
organization (check and
indicate program title on
right box)
Campaigning on land and food without
food sovereignty poison, WORA - 2007,Training on GMO
and its impact, Food Festival
Globalisation it impact on women, Women
women and Land Rights. Studies on the impact of
the AOA

others, please specify: Globalisation and its impact on Dalits

peasant/farmer 135 groups throughout the State

fisherfolk 30 groups

women 155 groups

youth 15 Youth Centers

Target groups/sectors 25 groups
(Indicate estimate/number indigenous peoples
in each sector) 120 groups
Dalits

government

others, please specify:

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 Organizational information
Registration Copy, Bye laws enclosed
enclosed here

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II. GENERAL INFORMATION ON BIODIVERSITY-BASED ECOLOGICAL AGRICULTURE PROGRAM
Title of program
Year established
Name of program head or
manager
Program components
(check and indicate
program title on right box)
Project/Service
areas/sites (villages,
towns, municipalities,
provinces, districts or
regions)
Personnel/staff
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Week Of Rice Action
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
no. of regular/core staff - 26
no. of non-regular staff - 15
no. of volunteers in the program - 35
no. of staff with technical skills: 5 Pls write their skills here
Computers
no. of staff with training skills - 7 Pls write training subjects or fields-
Community Pesticide Action Monitoring,
On GMO, On
Food Sovereignty On
Sustainable Agriculture
no. of staff with advocacy skills - 2 Throughout the State ,survey was done on
Public Distribution System and interacted
with the Food Ministry.
Others, please specify Pls write details
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III INFORMATION ON SCOPE OF BIODIVERSITY-BASED ECOLOGICAL AGRICULTURE PROGRAM

IIIA Scope of work in organic crop production

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

____ upland
____ mid-slopes
yes 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

IIIB Scope of work in genetics conservation

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 3
districts 3500 families are involving for Rice Seed Conservation, 1700
families 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 ed
exhibition

seed types conserved (what types of seeds do you conserve and/or develop?) Seed
preserved 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?)

IIIC Scope of work in organic marketing & certification

organic products produced for market (what crops and products do you bring to the organic market? what labels or
standards 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

issues (what issues or concerns
on BEA do you address with More pesticide using, Companies are taking agriculture lands, flouri culture, aqua culture,
policy advocacy?? GMO's impact

sectors (what sectors are

involved or mobilized?) Farmers, Women, Dalits, Consumers, Children, Irulas

activities (what kinds of activities

Studies on impact of the AOA on small scale rice producers and in the flouri culture at
do your policy advocacy &
the local level, Campaign against Pesticide use, Legal action taken against aqua
campaigns related to BEA
culture.
consist of?)

important campaigns (what were

your most important campaigns Pesticide sales in the provision shop, against the pesticide campaign, the pesticide
on BEA? which of these have sales was closed at Arigilpadi village.
been successful?)

IVB Projects
projects (what are your projects
related to BEA? e.g., food
productivity, seed conservation, Sustainable agriculture
etc.)

sectors (what sectors are

involved?) Agriculture land owners, small farmers, agriculture labourers, women, Dalits

scale (what is the scale of your

BEA projects. i.e., number of In each program more than 150 communities were involved.
communities involved?)

best practices (what do you

consider as your most
successful projects in terms of
producing best practices? why?) Using Vermi culture, Using Organic fertilizer, Natural pest control

IVC Training/Capacity building

types of training (what types of
trainings do you conduct?
Indicate their titles and target
sector/s)
Community Pesticide Action Monitoring - farmers, women, Dalits, Pesticide sales agents On
GMO - Farmers, Consumers, Dalits, Lawyers and women,
On SEZ and its impact - Land owners, farmers, Public
Globalization and its impact - Women's
group, Dalits, Irulas, farmers Organic Farming
- Farmers, Pesticide sprayers, women

training expertise (what are the

training areas you are most
expert with?) Community Pesticide Action Monitoring, GMO's, Globalization its impact

training modules (indicate titles

of training modules you have.)
Warning Pesticide Hand book,
Modules of Food Sovereignity

IVD Information dissemination

publications (what are your

publications in relation to BEA?)
Publication about Panchakaviyam (about Natural pesticides nd Vermi culture)

audio-visual (what are your

audio-visual productions related
Women farmers songs audio about traditional farming, and traditional seed varities
to BEA?)

resource centre (do you have a We have books, magazine (Pasumai vikadan), Video about 'Rice-the life of Asia'
library dedicated to BEA
materials (books, magazines,
audio-visuals, etc)?

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