About the Coalition
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National Coalition for Natural Farming
The National Coalition for Natural Farming is a response to the multiple crises the country is going through – farmers’ distress, climate change emergency, malnutrition, consumer health, land degradation and loss of biodiversity. The Covid19 pandemic has powerfully brought home the need to carefully nurture our relationship with Nature.
The first virtual meeting of the Coalition took place in July 2020 and saw large-scale and energetic participation from civil society partners, practitioners, donors, academics and policy-makers. There was widespread agreement on the need to “let a hundred flowers bloom”, without imposing any one conception of natural farming on members of the coalition.
The Coalition will help build necessary partnerships, including with State agencies and with farmers’ groups, to effect a smooth and effective transition towards agro-ecology. It will provide necessary knowledge and capacity enhancement inputs to its members, on a demand-driven basis :
- Promote cross-learning across different stakeholders and locations;
- Connect members with Knowledge Partners to further improve the quality and impact of their work;
- Help spread greater awareness and understanding of international experience on agro-ecological farming;
- Generate wider understanding of multiple natural farming issues among all stakeholders, especially governments, with special reference to necessary on-farm practices, farm extension, pattern of subsidies, post-harvest infrastructure, guidelines of schemes and their implementation mechanisms, supporting legal instruments, etc;
- Attempt is to work, as far as possible, with governments and foster partnerships of governments with Coalition members;
- Support partners in the documentation, monitoring and research aspects of their work, so as to strengthen the proof-of-concept;
- Access resources, at the appropriate node of work, so that the roadmap created for larger and effective transitions to agro-ecology can be actualised.
The work of the Coalition will be carried forward through State Chapters, which will be led by state-level coalitions of partners and members in each State.
