Campesino Organic
Food & Beverages - Kolkata, West Bengal, India
Campesino Organic Employees
Campesino Organic Senior Management
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Industrial farming is harmful to our societies and more generally it is negatively impacting our climate. In fact, for many years, La Vía Campesina and GRAIN are campaigning about how the agro-industrial food production systems cause around half of all greenhouse gas emissions. Now, we need more natural forests and vegetation cover than ever. We believe that co-producing clusters or communities are a sustainable way of managing vegetation and producing food at the same time. And, we as an organisation are working with farming communities and informal producer clusters to establish sophisticated labor-intensive production networks to positively impact the Sustainable Development Goals (SDG) such as SDG8 (Decent work and economic growth), SDG9 (Industry, innovation and infrastructure), SDG10 (Reduced inequalities) and SDG11 (Sustainable cities and communities), SDG12 (Responsible consumption and production) and SDG13 (Climate action) along with indirectly impacting other goals. We also work on communities and clusters to regenerate and boost their existing livelihoods. Most importantly, we are also establishing one of a kind producers' marketplace where consumers purchase from such producers via an offline/online platform. We are motivated to make this marketplace a model for community development and positive change. In our journey, along with 150 farmers, we have already started our agricultural revolution. These 150 farmers are cultivating black pepper, as a companion crop, worth more than $150K only in their home gardens. Now, we plan to introduce more exotic sub-tropical crops that could enhance the economic conditions of such co-producing agro-clusters by utilizing the under-utilized and un-utilized lands into 1000s of villages across Eastern India to encourage youth to participate in these co-producing structures.
