NIRMAN

NIRMAN works with agrarian, tribal and forest dwelling community to deal with food and livelihood insecurity of these marginalized section of society. These communities are critically dependent on agriculture and forests for livelihood and face the growing threat of loosing their livelihood options due to fast depleting natural resources base like land and forests. The other most important issue confronting these vulnerable groups is lack of secure tenure over customarily used land and forest resources thus resulting in very poor access and control over these resources. Keeping in view the importance of natural resources for supporting livelihoods, we focus on sustainable management of natural resources along with conservation and promotion of bio-diverse farming through community based democratic institutions.
he growing concern for supporting an agro-ecosystem that value the traditional wisdom of conservation and management and create toxic free food laid the foundation of NIRMAN in 1997. NIRMAN facilitates participatory approach that promotes local innovations and leadership building process from among the local community.