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: 

•  Synthesize key stakeholders’ insights to suggest future directions for collaborative work nationally as well as regionally.

•  Collectively discuss the challenges faced by FPOs in terms of support, investments, and capacity building.

• Discuss current institution-building attempts and the state of research on FPO.

• Piloting facilitation methods for creating learning sessions for participants, mainly FPO BoDs and staff.

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. This "Open-Source" and "Modular" manual was released at the conference.