November 15, 2018

2018: ITP Highlight #03

Do smallholder farmers follow a predictable journey from penury to prosperity? Is this journey well understood? Can it be mainstreamed? Can its timeline be condensed? Pastakia tries to answer...

Penury to Prosperity

The SFPF Journey of Tribal Farmers in Dahod, Gujarat

Astad Pastakia



N.M. Sadguru Water and Development Foundation’s work in tribal areas of Gujarat, Rajasthan and Madhya Pradesh is world renowned. Over more than four decades, NMSWDF has been working to improve the livelihoods of small, tribal farmers through their irrigation, watershed, agriculture and other livelihood interventions. As part of IWMI-Tata Program’s ‘Small Farmer, Prosperous Farmer’ (SFPF) initiative, this ITP Highlight tries to understand the development trajectory followed by NMSWDF farmers in Dahod with a view to draw policy lessons for mainstreaming smallholder prosperity, especially in the tribal context. It recommends a four-step replicable model – focusing on water security, crop stabilization, crop diversification and specialization – that can be implemented in less than a decade, depending on the initial conditions.



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