Community Managed Sustainable Agriculture, Economically Viable, Ecologically Sustainable

Society for Elimination of Rural Poverty (SERP) is implementing the largest poverty alleviation programme in the country Velugu in the state of Andhra Pradesh. SERP believes that poor have a strong desire and innate ability to come out of poverty. Further they have a strong sense of self help and volunteerism. They are poor on account of various obstacles – social, psychological, political and economic, and it is these obstacles which are suppressing poor people’s innate abilities. SERP believes that only by building their own institutions can they unleash their innate energies and come out of poverty. The process of social mobilisation and empowerment does not happen on its own and it needs to be induced.