Foundation For Ecological Security

FES works with local communities to come up with context-based action plans to protect the environment and also increase incomes. It attempts to link forests to production systems resulting in the people protecting forests with agriculture and forests going hand in hand.

FES facilitates the rights of communities over common resources. It helps villagers procure long-term leases over forests leading to an increase in grassland availability.

It advises communities to register wastelands in the vicinity in prohibitory order books or Panchayat registers to limit their use by antisocial elements.

Essentially, FES believes that all land must be under the watchful eyes of the community for it to grow and prosper.

It supports village institutions to line up with common resources and connect them to employment acts. This ensures proper decision-making helping the local institutions to effectively implement programmes such as the MGNREGS leading to gainful employment and activities aimed at protecting the environment.

It interacts with Central and State Governments to allocate more investment in natural resources. It encourages communities to use technology to gauge soil health and moisture to increase the chances of soil conservation.

FES believes in strengthening village-level institutions like Panchayats to act as nodal authorities regarding ensuring the responsible use of natural resources.

It makes location-specific information available to the institutions to enable them to take decisions and ensure access to rights. It works to connect the Panchayats, Block and the village and encourage collaborative effort.

It ensures the direct allocation of resources to the village institutions to enable proper governance and link the economy, society and ecology.

It strives to interconnect farming systems and tries to trigger healthy discussions on water as a shared resource leading to an appreciation by all as to its importance and the importance of conserving it and sharing it responsibly.

It encourages activity to protect the habitat of pest predators like bees, birds and spiders to make farming systems more resistant and also promotes diversified cropping methods to maintain the constant flow of income.