The Sustainable Green Initiative Forum
#MoveTheDate Solutions
Personal / Community: Community project
Food sub-categories: Food sovereignty, Legislation, regulation, mandate, Food security, Diet
Description: "BFI Award ""Bhungroo"" 2017: SGIF-Goon' is a grassroots initiative to train women farmers and agriculture labourers turn them micro-entrepreneurs through providing agriculture services to local farmers and promoting Bhungroo which is an awarded water irrigation technology guarantees increase in threefold income of farmers suffering from salinity, erratic rain, drought and flood across the globe. SGIF-Goon solves farmers' water and crop problems through an innovative product and agriculture advisers. Product Bhungroo (in Gujarati: straw or hollow pipe) filters, injects and stores storm water subsoil. It has 17 technical designs for a variety of agro-climatic zones and can be customized based on 27 variables. It works in environments where annual rainfall ranges from 400 to 2,100 millimeters, in salt affected and seasonally eroded soil. Using only one square meter surface area, each Bhungroo augments 1 to 4 Mlts of water/year and allows farmers to retrieve stored water. Multiple Bhungroos with a serial injection model can be used in flooded areas to capture and store excess water. Service Goon: The Women Climate Leaders (WCL) program trains women smallholder farmers to provide fee-based services to other smallholder farmers in their village. WCLs undertake Bhungroo feasibility and preliminary geo-hydro studies, supervision of Bhungroo erection and distribution of irrigation water. WCLs are paid by farmers for providing these services. Additionally, poor women smallholder farmers who own a Bhungroo earn income from the sale of crops and from helping other smallholders in their village gain access to water."
Website about this solution: http://www.sgifgoon.org/
Video about this solution: https://vimeo.com/274894102
Why I love this solution: Through the provision of a simple yet elegant, trimtab-like technology, Bhungroo can equip smallholder farmers to be able to face drought, monsoon flooding, and unpredictable precipitation patterns related to climate change while simultaneously empowering women and the poorest of the poor.