Our Programmes
How we work
At 16 Doddi Trust, every program begins with the community. We co-create solutions with women, farmers, and youth, test them in practice, refine them through learning, and then scale them with partners. This process makes our work both deeply rooted and capable of wider impact.
Food and Agroecology
Food is at the heart of our work. We support families to
grow kitchen gardens, help communities create collective farms, and strengthen direct links between peri-urban farmers and consumers through Community Supported Agriculture (CSA).
As an accredited Regional Council under PGS India, we enable small and marginal farmers to access farmer-friendly organic certification. We also engage in advocacy through the PGS Organic Council, ensuring that the voices of farmers shape national policies.
Our work is enriched by research collaborations that explore how technology and creativity can strengthen agroecological networks.
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Reimagining the Future of Food (Comic Style)
Women and Youth Leadership
Women and youth are not just participants — they are the leaders of change. We promote women-led community enterprises, rooted in farming, food processing, and other local livelihoods, and support them to access training, markets, and governance spaces.
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We also create platforms for women to learn leadership and governance skills, equipping them to represent themselves in panchayats and institutions. Alongside, youth clubs nurture entrepreneurship, ecological awareness, and solidarity, giving young people a collective voice in shaping their future.
Education & Learning
We see farms as living classrooms. By bringing schoolchildren to community farms, we open up learning about soil, food, ecology, and the values of cooperation. For youth, we create skill-building pathways in agroecology, entrepreneurship, and rural innovation.
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Every program embeds peer-to-peer learning so that knowledge stays within the community. We are also building new curricula and experimenting with digital tools in collaboration with partners such as RV College of Engineering, making agroecology education more practical and future-ready.
Ecosystem Restoration
Restoring ecosystems is inseparable from restoring community life. We support villagers to reclaim degraded lands and commons, regenerate water and soil, and conserve biodiversity in ecologically sensitive zones.
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This work is strengthened by partnerships in social research, such as Land Body Ecologies with Quicksand Studio, where community voices and lived experiences of resilience were documented for global audiences. These projects allow us to not just act, but also reflect and tell stories of how people relate to land, climate, and the wild.
Experience land in dialogue – through art, sound, and the voices of Ragihalli
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https://www.landbodyecologies.com/artworks
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https://www.landbodyecologies.com/the-landscape-has-changed-for-them-too