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With Women, for Planet

Industree Foundation works at the intersection of Equity, Climate, and Gender by collectivizing women into enterprises & building sustainable livelihoods.

21/08/2026

A meaningful recognition for Team Industree 🎉

Prasanghi, Project Coordinator with Industree Foundation’s Bamboo Sub-sector Programme, was felicitated by the Dinesh Kumar Kothamasu IAS, District Collector & Magistrate of Polavaram on the 80th Independence Day for his contributions to strengthening the bamboo value chain in the district.

This recognition reflects the work being done on the ground with 10,000 women farmers in Polavaram, strengthening community-led, women-driven supply chains from farm to market.

For Prasanghi and the team, it is an acknowledgement of the work being built alongside women farmers, community institutions, and local stakeholders.

Congratulations, Prasanghi. We are glad to see your contribution recognised.👏

19/08/2026

What do you do with land that no longer supports your livelihood?
For years, one acre of Rupali Ravindra Dudhane's farm lay unused. Limited water and porous soil made cultivation difficult, leaving the land with little economic value.

Today, that same acre tells a different story.

For Rupali, bamboo is more than a crop. It is a way to make efficient use of her land, strengthen her family's income, and build resilience for the years ahead. As the plantation matures, she also plans to cultivate intercrops, ensuring that every season brings new opportunities.

When women farmers have access to the right knowledge, resources, and market-linked solutions, they don't just transform their own livelihoods; they redefine what is possible for their communities.

17/08/2026

Meena Vitthal Dhadhawad is a smallholder farmer from Jalawandi village in Pune's Junnar block. Her family of four gets by on half an acre of rainfed paddy, daily wage labor, and a small herd of goats, the kind of livelihood that shifts with every monsoon and never quite feels secure. For years, one acre sat on their land, unused: barren, unproductive, and a reminder of what could have been.

Meena decided that the acre deserved a second chance. With guidance and saplings for bamboo cultivation, she began turning it around, but the real work started after planting. With no assured water source on the farm, she dug a small storage pit herself, filling it with water from a tanker to keep her bamboo alive through its first, most crucial four years. Every day meant weeding, mulching, and maintaining thorn fencing to protect the young plants from grazing animals.

Today, that once-barren acre is green with healthy, growing bamboo, and neighboring farmers are taking notice. For Meena, it's more than a crop. It represents a long-term livelihood from land that once produced almost nothing.

Project supported by Infosys Foundation

15/08/2026

Every Independence Day, we celebrate India’s journey towards freedom.

At Industree Foundation, we also celebrate the opportunities that freedom makes possible. The opportunity to earn with dignity, build enterprises, participate in markets, and shape a more secure future.

Across the country, we work alongside women producers, producer-owned enterprises, governments, and partners to strengthen nature-based value chains that create long-term economic opportunities. Whether through bamboo, Non-Timber Forest Produce, or creative production, our work is rooted in the belief that sustainable livelihoods are built when people have access to opportunity, ownership, and markets.

Because independence is not only about where we came from. It is also about creating the conditions that enable more people to participate in India’s growth and prosperity.

Wishing everyone a Happy Independence Day.

13/08/2026

Building resilient rural economies takes long-term partnerships.

Following our work together to strengthen Odisha's Non-Timber Forest Produce (NTFP) value chain, Cartier Philanthropy for People and Nature is expanding its partnership with Industree Foundation to support 10,000 smallholder women farmers through bamboo-based livelihoods.

The initiative will enable us to build a seed-to-market bamboo value chain in Odisha by supporting commercially viable bamboo cultivation, certification, traceable supply chains, and market access.

India has one of the world's richest bamboo resources, yet continues to import raw bamboo to meet industrial demand. Much of the country's bamboo grows in forests and is not readily available for commercial use, making investment in farmer-led cultivation and stronger value chains essential.

For women farmers, bamboo represents a long-term livelihood opportunity. From the fourth year of harvest, it can provide a sustained source of income for more than four decades, creating greater economic resilience for farming households.
Together, our partnership in Odisha now spans both NTFP and bamboo, strengthening nature-based value chains that create opportunities for women, support climate resilience, and connect rural producers to national and global markets.

05/08/2026

India’s first Forest Stewardship Council (FSC®️) - Forest Management Certification for smallholder-owned bamboo plantations isn’t just a milestone for the 6,671 women farmers we worked with to get there. It sets a precedent: a group certification model that other clusters, states, and missions can now follow.

What happened in Karnataka & Maharashtra is a model we built to be replicated, not a one-off achievement to celebrate and move past.

We’re already looking at where it goes next.

04/08/2026

India’s first certified organic smallholder collective is now official.

6,671 women farmers. 1,112.9 hectares. Across Karnataka and Maharashtra.

But the number that matters isn’t the count of farmers or hectares, it’s that this is a group certification model, built specifically for smallholders who could never have gotten there alone.

That’s the real achievement. Not a certificate, but a template, one that other bamboo clusters, states, and missions can now replicate.

We’re already looking at where this goes next.

29/07/2026

When Lalita Kisan got married, her family relied on seasonal agricultural wage labour in Odisha’s Sundargarh district. With irregular income and little savings, their focus was on meeting immediate needs. They also owned a small patch of barren land that had remained unused for years.

In 2023, Lalita joined her local Self-Help Group under the Odisha Livelihoods Mission. Through training and exposure visits under the Bamboo Sub-Sector Programme, implemented in partnership with Industree Foundation, she discovered bamboo cultivation as a climate-resilient, long-term livelihood opportunity.

With technical guidance and field support, she transformed the family’s barren land by planting 60 bamboo saplings. Although bamboo takes 4–5 years to mature, it can provide steady income for decades. For Lalita, this is an investment in her family’s future, supporting her children’s education, strengthening household stability, and reducing financial vulnerability.

Her journey shows how access to knowledge, community institutions, and climate-resilient livelihoods can empower rural women to move from short-term survival to long-term economic resilience.

27/07/2026

On July 6 and 7, 2026, our Capacity Team conducted a Training Needs Analysis (TNA) with women producers at the newly established Secondary Processing Units (SPUs) in Ponnachi and Channapatna.

Through focused group discussions with women producers, on-site observations, and interactions with unit in-charges, the assessment explored participants’ existing skills, knowledge, behavioural competencies, and the areas where additional support would be most valuable as they transition into their new roles.

The insights gathered will inform the development of a practical, context-specific training curriculum that reflects the realities of the production environment and responds to the needs of women producers. Beyond strengthening technical capabilities, the curriculum will also focus on building confidence, leadership, and workplace readiness, enabling women to contribute effectively to the growth and success of the Secondary Processing Units.

By understanding learning needs before designing training programmes, we can build learning experiences that are relevant, responsive, and grounded in the experiences of the women they are designed to support.

13/07/2026

Bamboo is already part of Nagaland’s everyday life. This partnership is about unlocking its potential for women, communities, and markets.

Industree Foundation has signed an MoU with the Nagaland State Rural Livelihoods Mission (NSRLM) to integrate 30,000 smallholder women farmers into the bamboo value chain and support women-led collective enterprises across the state.

Working together, the partnership will strengthen the bamboo value chain through certified plantations, improved processing, product development, and stronger market linkages, helping create long-term livelihood opportunities for women farmers.

This collaboration builds on a shared vision of connecting local knowledge with enterprise, sustainable production, and access to new markets.

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Industree Foundation, Joseph Chemmanur Memorial Hall, 1st Cross, Indira Nagar 1st Stage, Indira Nagar, Bangalore –
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