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The National Association of FPOs (NAFPO)

TRIF is also a founder promoter of the National Association of FPOs (NAFPO), which is focused
on institutional development and business stabilization for FPOs. NAFPO today has members of
several state Farmer Producer Organization federations and almost all the FPO promoting
institutions in India.

The Indian Agriculture and Food Systems - Circularity Action Platform
(IAFS – CAP)

The Indian Agriculture and Food Systems – Circularity Action Platform (IAFS – CAP) was
launched in February 2021 by Intellecap and Transforming Rural India Foundation to promote
the uptake of circular approaches in agriculture and food systems in India. The platform seeks
to achieve three key developmental outcomes: a) improve and diversify incomes of smallholder
farmers, (b) reduce the environmental footprint of agriculture and food systems in India, and c)
improve resilience of agriculture and agricultural incomes to climate change. To achieve these,
some of the tangible outputs envisaged are (a) awareness creation on circular agriculture (b)
providing end-to-end support to demand side stakeholders (c) scaling circular technologies
through Search-seed-support (d) promoting circular approach through financing (e) stimulating
dialogue and collaboration.

Reflections 2020-21

Economic Restoration for Small and Marginal Farmers to Focus on Youth
Combat the Disruptions Caused in 2020-2021

Enhancing the attractiveness of potential of its demographic dividend. The
With a series of lockdowns, the consequent economic disruptions and also with returning youth of today are aspirational, informed,
migrants, the strain on the rural communities was overwhelming. According to a household Agri-based livelihood and filling skill and digitally literate but continue to lack
survey in April-May 2020, as many as 85% farmers faced severe difficulties in harvesting & placement gaps through access to resources, training, and
and selling crops, and 73% of the households consumed less food during the Nationwide ecosystem linkages for skills, confidence for seizing opportunities of
lockdown (Source: CSE, Azim Premji University). In its action pilot blocks, TRIF mobilized employment and entrepreneurship. life-advancement in their villages.
resources for providing economic restoration support for the small-holder farming
communities. Aid in the form of seeds and fertilizers were distributed to cover for the capital With nearly 19% of India’s population We at TRIF, seek to harness the potential of
loss of the farmers. Aggregation centres, run by Agri-Entrepreneurs from the community between the age of 15-24, the demographic the youth by making economic and
were setup for providing input and output links. Further, Micro-entrepreneurs were provided advantage provides a unique opportunity for livelihood opportunities available to them
inventory support to restart their operations. making rapid economic growth. However, through ecosystem support and enabling
with one in every five youth being them to take ownership of their future.
unemployed, India is unable to harness the

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