What do we do?
The current initiative retains its focus as Farming and Farm related livelihoods, knowledge, community, society, politics and living traditions and ethos. This initiative is not any place or singular entity, it recognized and facilitates, diverse forms of localized knowledge that promote conservation of diversity, environmental protection, human life with dignity and peaceful inter-being. It is a network of diverse institutions promoting one or more of these ideas agreeing to work together in the spirit of sustaining the planet and high ethical standards. The initiative aims to challenge the current paradigm of Farm related knowledge in policy, polity, education, institution, research, economics, and technology through a focussed approach on the following broad areas of focussed action
Practitioner Teacher
Practitioners of crafts, skills, knowledge who are otherwise not recognized in the mainstream educational system as having been ‘qualified’ as teachers; efforts to create learning platforms for them in each locality in which they practice as well as other areas where they could conduct programmes.
Diverse ways and things to learn
Learning all kinds of diverse knowledge in several ways of learning, not merely through a system of ‘classroom learning’ is another important aspect of the activity; to provide space within the existing academic institutions for diverse forms of knowledge, to promote diverse ways of learning and pedagogies in these institutions will be pursued.
Localized Need based Learning
Acknowledgement of the localized need of knowledge that is very local and regional in its core and something that cannot be taught by outsiders; create spaces for such knowledge to be created and shared.
Theorizing Local Knowledge
Recognizing the need for theorizing the farm practices and guiding principles, ethics, ways of learning and life, effort will be made to theorize the same as pedagogies, curriculum, stories, videos, and other learning material.
