Library - Low Carbon Farming

Pan India LCF Coalition - Project Application
Submitted by: Ram Esteves 12 July 2012

Pan India LCF Coalition - Project ApplicationThis is a document/project application that outlines a strategy, plan and budget to take Low Carbon Farming forward by giving a unified thrust and direction. We envisage that this Pan India LCF Coalition will comprise of 50 grassroots NGOs and cover 200,000 acres, contributing to an Emission Reduction of 500,000 tCO2-e every cropping season. For the moment, we will start with 8 grassroots NGOs, 13,889 Participant Farmers in 669 villages, covering 30,908 acres.


2nd FCN-LCF Coalition - 1st Activity Report
Submitted by: Yasmeen Telwala 30 April 2012

2nd FCN-LCF Coalition - 1st Activity ReportThis Activity Report of the 2nd FCN-LCF Coalition covers the 6 month period till February 2012. Timbaktu Collective, WASSAN, GRAM and IIMF have made good progress also because of lessons learnt from experiences of the 1st FCN-LCF Coalition. They have a more holistic understanding of LCF as an overarching theme, and realise that is is much moe than just attracting Carbon Revenues. They are committed to take up all Main Crop(s) grown by small and marginal farmers and de-emphasise on Paddy.


Guidelines for Agriculture and Natural Resource Management Projects
Submitted by: N.H. Ravindranath & Indu K. Murthy 10 February 2012

Guidelines for Agriculture and Natural Resource Management ProjectsProf N.H. Ravindranath & Dr. Indu K. Murthy have prepared a document which is going to be printed by the World Bank on the issues of increasing crop yields and also sequestering carbon.


3rd FCN-LCF Coalition - Project Application
Submitted by: Ram Esteves 14 October 2011

3rd FCN-LCF Coalition - Project Application6 grasssroots NGOs across Andhra, Odisha and Chhattisghar have got together to form the 3rd FCN-LCF Coalition. This is the application they have made to Icco, the Netherlands, to support a 15 month Pilot Project


3rd FCN-LCF Coalition - Strategic Plan
Submitted by: Ram Esteves 12 October 2011

3rd FCN-LCF Coalition - Strategic PlanLAYA, IRDWSI, CPSW, CeFHA, ACTION and RCDRC have formed the 3rd FCN-LCF Coalition in the Tribal belt of Andhra Pradesh, Orissa and Chhattisghar states. This Strategic Plan has been finalised by Coalition Members on 12 October 2011 at a specially convened meeting at Bagepalli.


2nd FCN-LCF Coalition - Strategic Plan
Submitted by: Ram Esteves 11 August 2011

2nd FCN-LCF Coalition - Strategic PlanTimbaktu Collective, GRAM, IIMF and WASSAN have formed the 2nd FCN-LCF Coalition in order to develop skills and capabilities to scale up their Sustainable Agricultue practices in the Rayalaseema and Tenlengana regions of Andhra Pradesh by accessing carbon resources. At the end of a 4 day LFA Workshop, they have brought out their Strategic Plan spelling out the Vision, Mission, Goal, Purpose and Objectives. This Strategic Plan was finally adopted at a Coalition Meeting on 5 October 2011


2nd FCN-LCF Coalition - Project Application
Submitted by: ram 11 August 2011

2nd FCN-LCF Coalition - Project ApplicationThe 2nd FCN-LCF Coaliton, comprising Timbaktu Collective, GRAM, IIMF and WASSAN, submitted a Project Application to EED, Germany, to support the first year of a 1.5 year long Pilot Phase to enhance NGO skills and capabilities to undertake Low Carbon Farming on 48,500 acres of land belonging to 23,000 small and marginal farmer families in 277 villages. Of the total project cost of Rs 16.4 million, they requested EED for a grant of Rs 14.6 million (€ 232,416)


FCN-LCF Pilot Project - Our search for suitable Gas Analysis
Submitted by: Rakesh Tiwari 07 May 2011

FCN-LCF Pilot Project - Our search for suitable Gas AnalysisAfter an intense 2 week search by Rakesh Tiwari, Mario Esteves and Sudha Padmanabha, we finally chose a Gas Chromotograph manufactured by Thermo Fisher in Nasik, India. In this excellent paper, Rakesh Tiwari gives a semi-technical explanation on what these costly equipment are, why we need them and how we will use them in our FCN-LCF Coaliton.


The Science behind LCF
Submitted by: Rakesh Tiwari 19 April 2011

The Science behind LCFRakesh Tiwari, the LCF Expert, presented a PPT to explain the science behind the Low Carbon Farming project to the FCN-LCF Coalition on 19 April 2011 at Bagepalli. In very simple terms, he explained how Emission Reductions are calculated in Sustainable Agriculture.


3rd FCN-LCF Meeting - 20 July 2010
Submitted by: Daniel Anandraj 23 July 2010

3rd FCN-LCF Meeting - 20 July 201018 representatives from the 5 Participant NGOs attended a day long meeting at Accion Fraterna, Anantapur. Along with many matters that were discussed, Ram Esteves presented his Audacious hypothesis on how to irrefutably prove Emission Reductions on lands under Sustainable Agriculture practices.


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