ARiSE

Agroecology for Resilience, Sustainability and Entrepreneurship or ARiSE is a platform to bring together stakeholders, innovators and communities to foster sustainable development and climate resilience through agroecology. The project’s objectives focus on the establishment of an urban / peri-urban food council and developing a food strategy for the Chennai metropolitan region through a network of stakeholders across sectors of academia, praxis, civil society, entrepreneurs and government.

To that end, a workshop was organised in November 2024 with practitioners and experts of Sustainable Urban and Peri-urban farming practices in attendance. Presentations by the invitees spoke of their own personal experiences in running commercial and semi commercial farming ventures with a wide range of organic agricultural practices.

After Q&A, attendees engaged in 2 interactive sessions, first to identify areas of policy gaps and other thematic areas relevant for fostering sustainable Urban and Peri-urban Agriculture and a second one post lunch to brainstorm on the role of the government and the practitioners to help protect and promote sustained food growing practices in and around Chennai.

More information on project ARiSE can be found here : https://arise.website or by signing up for the ARiSE Social platform here : https://arise.social/