Swayam Shikshan Prayog (SSP) has won this year’s UN Equator Prize.
SSP is a Pune-based non-governmental organisation working among women farmers
SSP is a Pune-based non-governmental organisation working among women farmers
- The award recognises SSP’s initiative to empower over 20,000 women farmers from the impoverished Marathwada region in Maharashtra
- The prize was received by Godavari Dange and Kamal Kumbhar, two women farmers from Osmanabad district, at the UN General Assembly meeting in New York on Sunday.
- SSP helps to promote climate-resilient agro-ecological farming that addresses many issues relating to sustainable development, such as food security, income security and natural resource management.
- SSP’s climate-resilient farming model works by giving cultivation rights of a small piece of land, which is usually half or one acre, to women from marginal families.
- Last year, SSP won UNFCCC’s Momentum for Change Lighthouse Activity Award for this initiative
