Group Leasing Approach to Sustain Farming and Rural Livelihoods : The Journey of Women Farmers in Kudumbashree Kerala
Kudumbashree is a society designed and established in 1997 by the State Poverty Eradication Mission (SPEM) of the government of Kerala (GoK) with a broad objective to eradicate poverty and empower women through community-based organizations that op...
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| Format: | Working Paper |
| Language: | English en_US |
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Washington, DC : World Bank
2022
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| Online Access: | http://documents.worldbank.org/curated/en/777121635767102251/Group-Leasing-Approach-to-Sustain-Farming-and-Rural-Livelihoods-The-Journey-of-Women-Farmers-in-Kudumbashree-Kerala http://hdl.handle.net/10986/37656 |
| Summary: | Kudumbashree is a society designed
and established in 1997 by the State Poverty Eradication
Mission (SPEM) of the government of Kerala (GoK) with a
broad objective to eradicate poverty and empower women
through community-based organizations that operate under the
umbrella authority of local government institution. The
program aims to empower women’s groups and make them the
focal point of sustained socio-economic development. Besides
income generation activities and microcredit, the women’s
groups work on health, nutrition, agriculture and other
related development activities. Since its inception,
Kudumbashree has been identified by the state government as
the nodal agency for all the state and central government
schemes that target the socially and economically weaker
sections of the society. Women enter the programme as
cultivators as opposed to agricultural labourers and have
control over the means of production and access to formal
credit to help increase the returns from farming. Activities
under this initiative include selection of beneficiaries
into Neighborhood Groups (NHG), clustering them into joint
liability groups (JLGs), identification of available land
and support to negotiate informal leases, training,
distribution of inputs and release of eligible agricultural
entitlements managed by Kudumbashree. The identified
beneficiaries are collectivized as JLG to undertake
agriculture. Agriculture incentives are provided to the JLGs
based on the crop types. Interest subsidies on agriculture
bank loans are also provided to the JLGs by Kudumbashree
through various Central and State agriculture schemes. |
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