Farmers’ Integrated Development Association (FIDA) is providing hope to the poorest of the poor communities in the Vehari district, Pakistan by proving small ruminants.
Our sustainable food projects help people to drop their hunger and feed themselves and their families for life, transforming entire communities for generations to come.
The FIDA helps shift the dominant narrative about food and hunger, providing evidence and inspiration about the significance of agroecological food systems while exposing threats posed by corporate concentration and industrial systems.
Farmers' Integrated Development Association (FIDA) seeks to empower the disadvantaged communities especially the smallholders by providing them with means, strategies, and products to support climate-friendly mitigation and adaptation actions for sustainable development.
Introduced by Plan International Pakistan, FAO, and Government of Pakistan.
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Established by Plan International Pakistan, FAO, and Pakistan Agricultural Research Council (PARC) under National Integrated Pest Management Program.
6 women and 9 men farmers were trained
Established by Plan International Pakistan, FAO, and Pakistan Agricultural Research Council (PARC) under National Integrated Pest Management Program.
12 women, and 13 men farmers were trained
FIDA was founded
established by Plan International Pakistan, FAO, and Pakistan Agricultural Research Council (PARC) under National Integrated Pest Management Program.
12 women, and 15 men farmers were trained
FIDA was Registered
The National Agricultural Research Centre (NARC), Islamabad in 2005 launched National Integrated Pest Management (Nat-IPM) Program to educate farmers regarding modern farming techniques. Under this program, a season-long training program, “Farmers Training of Facilitators (FToF)”, was initiated by the NARC. The trainees were the smallholders from the villages of District Vehari. The trainees were responsible for practicing the learning at the field level by establishing Farmer Field Schools (FFS). The men members of the family were registered for FFS, women members for Women Open School (WOS) and children of the same family were enrolled in Children Ecological Clubs (CEC). All 3 programs were non-formal education programs. So, through this approach whole families were educated on different aspects of agriculture like crop production technologies, health hazards of mechanized agriculture, and protection of natural enemies. The selected farmers were trained for not only crop management but some other skills that were also imparted during the period, including but not limited to, communication, reporting, planning, data analysis skills, etc. The basic theme of the program was to educate the smallholder farmers on farmer-to-farmer actions for building capacities in Climate-Smart Agriculture, Food Security, and Sustainable Livelihood. The program was also to equip smallholders for the Integrated Management of their crops and to disseminate the knowledge to fellow farmers through the peer-to-peer non-formal education system called Farmer Field School (FFS).
Farmers’ Integrated Development Association (FIDA) is a concrete result of the program mentioned above by the National Agricultural Research Centre (NARC) Islamabad. As a result of the program described above, the limited-resource growers were educated in Integrated Pest Management and empowered to raise their voices for their rights. That was the realization that laid down the foundation of FIDA as the needs of the rural population, especially of smallholders, in District Vehari were not being adequately researched which motivated these charged smallholders to establish the Farmers’ Integrated Development Association (FIDA).
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Farmers’ Integrated Development Association (FIDA) is providing hope to the poorest of the poor communities in the Vehari district, Pakistan by proving small ruminants.
Our sustainable food projects help people to drop their hunger and feed themselves and their families for life, transforming entire communities for generations to come.
The FIDA helps shift the dominant narrative about food and hunger, providing evidence and inspiration about the significance of agroecological food systems while exposing threats posed by corporate concentration and industrial systems.
"I used to earn a meager amount of money by working as a domestic worker. Now, after the support by FIDA Pakistan, I have sufficient knowledge and skills to meet my family’s financial and nutritional requirements."
"I followed new cultivation method, Insurance Crop Facility, introduced by FIDA Pakistan and planted fruit plants easily without need of extra resources (land, water or special arrangements)."
"In weekly sessions we dreamed and then sketched out our dream on paper about green and clean village and now moving towards that dream day by day."
