The regenerative agroforestry and livelihoods fund (real fund), aims to create an environmentally and financially sustainable, scalable, and replicable model of bamboo production, value addition and…

This $800,000 Cooperative Agreement awarded by the U.S. Agency for International Development (USAID) under the Foreign Assistance for Programs Overseas (CFDA 98.001) program aims to create a sustainable and scalable model of bamboo production, value addition, and sale in rural India. The award will support a collective of 7,500 farmers and 3,600 women artisans to own and manage the end-to-end bamboo value chain, from cultivating bamboo to producing and marketing value-added products. The funding will help establish environmentally and financially sustainable bamboo-based livelihoods, with a focus on empowering women through the project. The award was made to the Indus Tree Crafts Foundation, a foreign-owned, woman-owned non-profit organization, and will be implemented over a 5-year period from July 2023 to July 2028.

The regenerative agroforestry and livelihoods fund (real fund), aims to create an environmentally and financially sustainable, scalable, and replicable model of bamboo production, value addition and sale (both institutional and open market). This will be done via collectives of 7,500 farmers and 3,600 women artisans in rural india who will together own and manage the end-to-end value chain of bamboo products (from purchase of saplings for cultivation of bamboo to production and sale of value-added products). The proportion of farmers and artisans will be crystalized post mobilizing and fundraising activities during the structuring phase; the total direct beneficiaries will be 11,100.