• Research & Evidence Building
  • Programme Implementation
  • Policy Advocacy
  • Incubation

What We Do

Agriculture & Livelihoods

Capacity Building - Demonstration - Research - Farming as Enterprise

SDG 1 SDG 2 SDG 12

Geographies

Tamil Nadu, Karnataka, Andhra Pradesh, Maharashtra, Madhya Pradesh, Rajasthan, Haryana, Uttar Pradesh, West Bengal, Jharkhand, Odisha.

Coverage

1,03,411 Farmers
145 FPOs
501 Entrepreneur

Duration

2015-22

Increase their access to information, technologies & innovations through market and value chain integration is the Mission that NSFI pursued since its inception. In this direction, research & analysis of various technologies / innovations, their demonstrations on the field, their promotion among farming communities and advocacy to scale up the successful technologies and innovations has been systematic approach of NSFI. NSFI served farmers in more than 24 States and contributed to the farming communities in Afghanistan and Indonesia. The focus of all activities in the domain of Agriculture & Livelihoods has been on the income and expenditure of farming activities and the financial benefit that accrues to the farming community, especially the small and marginal farmers.

Impact Factor

    • Over 48,500 farmers have been trained between 2015-2019
    • Over 60% farmers have shown interest in adopting to mobile and internet banking system.
    • About 90% of the farmers were trained on importance of regular savings, investments, credit opportunities and insurance (crop insurance and others).
    • Capacity Building of Civil Society Organisations (CSOs) / Social Enterprise in digital marketing & finance modalities
    • Fund Raise for CSOs / Social Enterprise for sustainability

Unique Factor

    Behavioural change communication and orientation of Farms as Enterprises / Businesses

Gender Equality

Economic Empowerment of Women Towards Equality and Justice

SDG 5

Geographies

Himachal Pradesh, National Capital Region, Telangana, Haryana, Karnataka, Gujarat

Coverage

3166 Women Beneficiaries

Duration

2018-Present

Increase their access to information, technologies & innovations through market and value chain integration is the Mission that NSFI pursued since its inception. In this direction, research & analysis of various technologies / innovations, their demonstrations on the field, their promotion among farming communities and advocacy to scale up the successful technologies and innovations has been systematic approach of NSFI. NSFI served farmers in more than 24 States and contributed to the farming communities in Afghanistan and Indonesia. The focus of all activities in the domain of Agriculture & Livelihoods has been on the income and expenditure of farming activities and the financial benefit that accrues to the farming community, especially the small and marginal farmers.

Impact Factor

    The journey that started in 2018 has touched the lives of more than 3000 women directly and is still continuing. With a specific focus on sustainability of interventions, NSFI works on various approaches that sustain the impact and take it to scale with or without external support.

Unique Factor

    Focus beyond capacity building and seed funding towards mentoring & business viability and its sustenance.

Climate Action

Farmer Plot to Policy: Action for evidence - policy for impact - action at scale

SDG 13

Geographies

Himachal Pradesh, Rajasthan, Haryana, Regional & National Level

Coverage

72,502 Farmers

Duration

2015-22

NSFI”s work in this area ranges from taking up demonstrations of climate resilient technologies on farmers’ fields, to building the capacities of farmers on climate resilient and sustainability practices, to bringing together innovators in the domains of climate change adaptation and mitigation for deliberations on the merits of their technologies and their scale up opportunities.

Impact Factor

    Over the last 7 years, NSFI has promoted Climate Resilient Technologies in Sugarcane, Mango, Vegetables and various other food grains (wheat, paddy, maize etc.,) through demonstrations and capacity building efforts. Further, NSFI brought together 473 innovators, 279 Policy Makers and worked in more than 70,000 farmers.

Unique Factor

    Focus on relevance, appropriateness, frugality for the end user to enable adoption and benefit accrual.

Incubation & Entrepreneurship Development

Partnerships - Ideation - Incubation - Sustenance

SDG 17

Geographies

National

Coverage

Organisations & Individuals

Duration

2015-22

There is lot to do to, but less resources (time, money and human effort) for application. NSFI in its efforts to enable scale up of interventions and their positive impact, pursues this area of work on an ongoing basis. In this direction, NSFI is not only working towards establishing social enterprise that brings positive developmental impact on equity and inclusion principles, but supports last mile ecosystem support to communities and build their capacities for lasting impact.

Impact Factor

    NSFI acknowledges the contribution of the collaborating and grant making partners of mentioned interventions for the impact the organisations have been creating. Further, various partners and teams of these organisation, their collaborators paved the way for creating a positive impact by www.asci-india.org; www.skillgreenglobal.com.

Unique Factor

    Impact sustenance beyond project geographies and timelines is the priority area from day 1 of the project.

Digital & Financial Literacy / Inclusion

SDG 4 SDG 8 SDG 9

Geographies

Haryana & Rajasthan; Tamil Nadu, Karnataka, Andhra Pradesh; National Outreach

Coverage

48,100 Farmers / Rural Entrepreneurs, 81 Social Enterprises

Duration

2015 - Present

Multiple projects that involved Sustainable Practice Adoption in Sugarcane, Mango, Wheat, Paddy, vegetable crops and other crops with various funding partners, were taken up in the domain of Financial Literacy. The objective of the projects is to inform, educate and build hands-on skills of poor so that they could adopt sustainable practices, leverage financial services and social security schemes of the Government by applying digital literacy skills, and to educate the target group on importance of regular savings, investments, credit opportunities and insurance (crop insurance and others). Further, the digital inclusion interventions included capacity building of various civil society organisations / social enterprises to reach the communities in rural hinterlands towards their increased digital and financial access to markets and other services

Impact Factor

    NSFI target groups include farmers, agri entrepreneurs offering various goods & services in agri value chains, farmers institutions cooperatives and farmer producer organisations. NSFI through its own staff and partners’ has contributed to agriculture and livelihoods across the length and breadth of the country with more than 1 Lakh farmers, more than 100 FPOs and more than 500 entrepreneurs.

     

Unique Factor

    Life-cycle approach imparting application skills for modern communication media & channels.

How

Research & Evidence Building

Research and Evidence Building form the corner stones of NSFI's focus on scaling up sustainable Impact.

Programme Implementation

A deed is better than 1000 words. NSFI drives change, builds evidences towards knowledge and models for scale.

Policy Advocacy

Alone we can do so little; Together we can do so much. NSFI delivers impact and buids evidences for advocacy.

Incubation

We believe in decentralised multi-pronged innovations for frugal & contextual impact. Thus social enterprises are incubated.

Sectors NSFI operates in

Agri and Allied Sectors

Renewable Energy & Environment

Water & Sanitation

Non-Farm Livelihood

NSFI’s functional alignment with Schedule VII of The Companies Act 2013

Activities Schedule VII of The Companies Act 2013

Activities Schedule VII of The Companies Act 2013

Eradicating hunger and poverty

Promoting employment by enhancing vocational skills among women, and livelihood enhancement projects.

Promoting gender equality, empowering women and measures for reducing inequalities faced by socially and economically backward groups.

Ensuring environmental sustainability, ecological balance, protection of flora and fauna, animal welfare, agroforestry, conservation of natural resources

Promoting Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs)

Contribution to incubators or research and development projects in the field of science, and technology

Promotion and development of traditional arts and handicrafts engaged in conducting research

Rural development projects

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