Green Innovation Centre for the agriculture and food sector India. Part of program implemented in 14 countries by the Government of Germany. In India under bilateral agreement with Government of India. Implemented in Karnataka and Maharashtra by ETC. Focus on value chain development of potato and tomato. Offices in Narayangaon and Peth in Maharashtra.

In Karnataka field offices in Hassan and Kadur. Foci of work: farmer organization and federation of ATMA registered farmers groups in Producer companies. Till date 7 Producer Companies established. Development of input supply structure for innovative inputs like potato planter, improved sprayers, biofertilizers, bio-control agents. Guiding ROHIT industries in Pune in developing potato planters and tomato trans-planters.

Improving nursery management and guiding APMC in developing upgraded market inclusive of sorting and grading machines. Developed a smartphone-based potato production application. Turn-over of Producer Companies over 2 crores per annum. Yields of both potato and tomato increased while pesticide and fertilizer use decreased. A total of 40,000 (Forty Thousand) farmers reached.

Planning sustainable agriculture interventions for 25 clusters and training staff of Reliance Foundation in sustainable agriculture as well as planning of interventions.

Establishing Chetna Organic Farmers Association in 2007. We were requested by Solidaridad to design a organic fair trade cotton program for them to supply their production partners in the Netherlands with fabric. We selected the areas (which solidadridad wanted to be marginal areas with poor farmers. We chose to work in Vidharbha area, Asifabad, Karimnagar an dlater also Odisha.

Farmers were organized and trained in organic fair trade cotton production. The farmers groups were federated into a Producer Company and we mediated between farmers, spinning and milling and cutting making and trimming units plus large houses like Marks and Spencers, Under the Canopy, C&A. A total of 20,000 (twenty thousand) farmers was reached.

ARVIND Cotton Mills, Ahmedabad, training staff, partners and farmers in organic cotton and soybean cultivation plus internal certification systems. Lately also working for Patagonia on Regenerative Organic Cotton.

The Netherlands Government has supported the Kerala Water Authority in the implementation of eight major rural water supply schemes with a design population of 1.6 million people. It also funds the two Socio-Economic Units (SEU's) supporting this programme.

Since 1992, ETC, in co-operation with IHE in Delft, has provided a regular Review and support function to the Water Sector Specialist in the Royal Netherlands Embassy in Delhi.

The SEU's have developed methods of community mapping and participatory site selection. They also implement a low cost sanitation programme that emphasizes community motivation and education before construction starts.

On behalf of the Netherlands Embassy, ETC India manages a fund to support NGO- based environmental activities in India.

The objectives of this Fund are :

• Financially support the efforts of NGOs in environmentally sustainable development and ecological restoration through the direct participation of local communities
• To provide small grants to projects proposed by NGOs which aim specifically at filling in the gaps and niches uncovered so far in the fields of urban and industrial environment and mining
• To support facilitating centers, federations and/or networks of groups of citizens or consumers in the area of environment

AME (Agriculture, Man and Ecology) started as a programme of courses on ecological agriculture for developing countries in Tamil Nadu, India in 1986. Since 1994, the programme has been based in Bangalore

AME grew into a dynamic and multifaceted institution, which promotes sustainable agriculture among small and marginal farm households, with a geographical focus on the semi-arid areas of the Deccan Plateau in South India. Training, knowledge development, institutional linkage development and stakeholder concerted action, documentation and dissemination are AME’s key task areas. AME has three field teams and one co-ordination team in Bangalore. AME has become an independent foundation from April 2002.

This assignment was sub contracted by DHV (who implemented the Tungabhadra Irrigation Pilot Project TIPP-II) to provide agricultural development options for farmers in the left bank command area.

Agricultural development options were described for farmers in upper, middle and lower reaches of the left bank irrigation canal after a systematic inventory of present farming systems, problem encountered (environmental, production, credit, input supply and marketing) and social structure present (as many farmers are migrants from other areas). The follow up to the study was a PTD process in the selected villages.

The Swiss Development Corporation (SDC) through ISPWD-K assigned the task to develop a plan for bio-mass production in an implemented watershed. An inventory was made of existing natural vegetation and on farm bio-mass production.

The production levels were matched with existing demands for animal feed, fire wood, timber requirements, minor forest products etc. An inventory was made of soil and water resources available as well as land ownership and tenancy arrangements. Combining all of these, an outline plan was developed for bio-mass production development options.

This assignment was implemented for IFOAM. Using the FARMS methodology developed by us, we gave full guidance to the NGO partners in India involved in data collection for this research by providing periodic training on data collection and regular on line supervision. We guided the IFOAM partners from other countries in data collection and data processing. The results were presented at the IFOAM conferences.

GEAG is a leading NGO working in eastern U.P. for promotion of sustainable agriculture development for the small and marginal farmers through appropriate use of locally available resources and integrating gender and participatory approaches.

The assignment is to undertake monitoring and support missions periodically and advise the project on the strategies adopted and implemented and more specifically on the ecological agriculture development, research and PTD.

This Assignment is to guide the PTD process for the IC-Kerala supported NGOs. The main emphasis is building capacity of the NGO staff and IC in carrying out PTD process on pepper, cardamom, paddy, banana and vegetable crops, link up with local research bodies and create a platform to influence the policies in favour of sustainable and eco-friendly production practices.

The Bundelkhand Integrated water resource management project was evaluated during this period.

This TE was commissioned by the Government of Netherlands to take the learning from projects for the sector wide policy being implemented by DGIS. ETC India prepared the evaluation mission and provided consultants for carrying out this mission.