National workshop on Strengthening Farmer Producer Collectives- organised by ISEED in collaboration with APMAS, NAFPO and Green Colleges on 7th March, 2019, IRMA

About the workshop

This national workshop on "Strengthening farmer collectives" was organized by IRMA's incubator, ISEED in collaboration with APMAS, NAFPO and Green Colleges on 7th March 2019. This workshop sought to:

• Think through and suggest directions for the next few years based on synthesizing some of the key stakeholders’ insights.
• Strengthen coalitions for more effective sharing on specific challenges being faced by FPOs by thinking together. This relates to the quantum of support or investments, challenges in augmenting capacities of both FPOs and the resource institutions.
• Have focused discussions on current institution-building attempts and the state of research on FPO.
• Provide specific ideas for future collaborative work nationally as well as regionally (in Gujarat and neighboring states).

Under the Green Innovation Centre Programme and with SkillGreen, an incubation of WHH (Welthungerhilfe) and NSFI (National Skills Foundation of India), a trainers’ manual has been developed as per the ASCI (Agriculture Skill Council of India) framework. Facilitation methods for creating learning sessions for participants - mainly FPO BoDs and staff, have also been piloted. This "Open-Source" and "Modular" manual was released at the conference.