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In April 2023, India overtook China as the world’s most over di cult periods or invest in productive assets. The work force, pursue non-farm activities as their primary In recent years, the growing threat of climate change to Going forward, elements like bio-protection, conservation mobilisation, technical training/skilling and imparting
populous country, with close to 66% of its population constant struggle to find buyers for their produce or get a profession, even though a large proportion of them rural livelihoods has also influenced the response to of biodiversity, geo-tagging of local varieties and enterprise management knowledge. Key components of
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residing in over 600,000 villages. As per the 77 NSSO fair price for their crops further discourages them from are unskilled. income enhancement programmes. Forest land regenerative agriculture will also be introduced in the such programmes may also include providing start-up
survey, 2019-20, the total number of rural Indian investing in new methods/technologies to transform their conversion to agriculture across countries has created a programme design. Conservation agricultural practices toolkits, digital literacy for record keeping and facilitating
households is estimated at 172 million, of which 54% practices to improve incomes. The Rural Upliftment Portfolio (RUP) of the Trusts grave threat to ecological balance worldwide. Within the like zero tillage, cover cropping, intercropping, natural market connections. Another non-farm initiative has been
(93 million) are dependent on Reducing farm-based incomes therefore focuses on both farm and non-farm sectors and livestock sector, continued growth and intensification of farming, etc. are expected to be adopted in a community-based tourism programme, which is built
agriculture and allied activities. As and increasing opportunities has developed integrated, layered models for income livestock rearing have resulted in a situation where animal larger numbers. around the idea of creating custodianship of the natural
per the Multidimensional in urban areas, male migration enhancement that include farming, horticulture, feed production is said to be competing for land and other and cultural heritage within the community. The emphasis
Poverty Index Baseline Report out of rural areas has high-value agriculture, animal husbandry, crafts, and resources with human feed production. Besides is on creating authentic, immersive and meaningful
2021, around one-fourth of the increasingly put the burden other non-farm elements. Programmes within the portfolio contributing to land-use change, livestock systems also experiences for the guests that bring forward the
Indian population is poor, with of farming on women. particularly focus on promoting self-reliant community contribute to greenhouse gas emissions directly, mostly uniqueness of each place, comprising cultural heritage,
32.75% of the poor residing in Overconsumption of natural institutions, managed by the stakeholders themselves. through enteric fermentation and manure. As agriculture folklore, gastronomy, local landmarks, and wildlife. This
rural areas. While poverty rates resources like fertile soil, Through these community institutions, the programmes encroaches deeper into wild habitats, livestock are inculcates sensitivity in the minds of the visitors and
have significantly reduced in forests, minerals and water work not only to alleviate poverty, but also to ensure the increasingly brought into contact with wild-host reservoirs contributes to the rural community managing a
recent decades due to has created an additional sustainability of resources and of pathogens such as SARS, sustainable livelihood, while also developing pride in
government support and other aspect of resource poverty. incomes. This people-centric Nipah, or Ebola. This growing their heritage.
initiatives, factors such as response aims at providing interface between humans,
increasing land fragmentation and While agriculture employs better opportunities on one animals, and the environment is
continuing heavy dependence close to half of the rural hand, while reducing risks on the causing the emergence of new
on subsistence agriculture have workforce, an important sub-sector within the same is the other, through initiatives that diseases, many of which
contributed to the prevalent poverty in rural India. The livestock sector. Animals (livestock) have historically been help in promoting productivity are zoonotic. Antimicrobial
average size of agricultural landholding in 2015 was 2.7 used to stabilise incomes, and today, they account for enhancement, credit linkages, consumption by livestock is
acres, down from 5.7 acres in 1970. 64% of rural population about 20% of the average monthly income. In as many as innovations and market almost three times that in Apart from the climate change that impacts
holds even less than an acre of land. Additionally, vagaries nine states, livestock generates more than 40% of the development. The implementation humans. Inappropriate use in the farm-based economy, another important aspect
of weather, natural disasters, increased pests, and disease income of agricultural households. For agricultural methodology focuses on livestock exacerbates the shaping the rural economy is the aspirations of rural
pressures or a family exigency can send a borderline households possessing under an acre, the net receipts capacitating people to take development of antimicrobial communities. The ambitions of rural youth have changed
household back into the clutches of poverty. At times of from farming animals exceed those from the cultivation of advantage of the options provided, whilst also ensuring resistance in livestock pathogens, which compromises significantly as they are equally exposed to a
crisis, rural women are hit the hardest, usually due to poor crops. For the majority of these rural households with very that they receive appropriate services through treatment and readily spreads to the human population. market-based, global economy as their urban
access to resources, services and information, the heavy small land-holding, non-farm incomes and wages / salaries institutional reforms. Elements of water management, soil counterparts. To keep pace with the changing aspirations
burden of unpaid care and domestic work, as well as end up being the primary source of income. Over 63 conservation, and response to climate change are Climate-Smart-Agriculture is an integrated approach to and requirements of rural communities, as well as the
discriminatory traditional social norms. million individuals, constituting almost 22% of the rural introduced as per the requirements of the programme. managing landscapes—cropland, livestock, forests and changing economy and environment, the Trusts’ Rural
The seeding of entrepreneurial enterprises within the
fisheries—that addresses the interlinked challenges of Upliftment Portfolio has also expanded over time to
community institution framework, further establishes a
Arguably, one of the reasons for people being financially food security and accelerating climate change. It aims to include non-farm-based livelihoods like skilling,
system that is receptive to external changes. Sparks of
disadvantaged and marginalised is the lack of institutions. simultaneously achieve three outcomes of increased entrepreneurship, tourism, crafts, and non-timber forest
innovation either evolve or are introduced through
It is usually seen that poor people and women have productivity, enhanced resilience, and reduced emissions. produce in its programmes. Major initiatives in livelihood
research and development across various aspects
negligible or peripheral roles in local-level bodies like The agriculture programmes within the theme have been generation through skilling disadvantaged rural
such as resource use, processing, marketing and
Panchayati Raj Institutions, credit cooperatives, etc. As working towards water use e ciency, ease of cultivation, communities and enabling entrepreneurship have been
entrepreneurship. On completion of a programme, it is the
they are not organised, these disadvantaged groups are crop diversification, and yield protection. Varietal changes taken up, particularly in Uttarakhand and Rajasthan. In
vibrant community institutions that ensure long-term
unable to negotiate with markets, the state, or within to introduce climate resilient and tolerant varieties to Assam, Nagaland, Odisha, and Andhra Pradesh, handloom
sustainability and irreversibility of the impact.
society and consequently remain vulnerable. Lack of mitigate global warming, creating access to monitoring programmes have been initiated. Nurturing non-farm
access to credit makes it di cult for these groups to tide and alert advisory services are some such examples. micro-enterprises is achieved through village-level

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