Vincent Ferrer
FounderFounder of Accion Fraterna Ecology Centre
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Vincent Ferrer is the founder of Accion Fraterna Ecology Centre (1982)[1], an Indian non-profit working on rural & agriculture, environment and livelihood from Anantapur.
Accion Fraterna Ecology Centre
Accion Fraterna Ecology Centre is an Anantapur-based trust founded in 1982 that works on participatory watershed development, soil and moisture conservation, and sustainable rainfed agriculture in one of India's driest districts. It organises farmers into Sasya Mitra groups and farmer producer organisations and promotes polycropping and organic methods to reduce drought risk.
Accion Fraterna Ecology Centre reports the following, on its own site:
- Total Extent of land treated in Hectars 174852
- No. of Households benefitted from Watershed Development Projects 78408
- No. of Women Organised 18610
- Organisations
- 1
- Based in
- Anantapur
- Founded
- 1982
- Press
- 2
References
- [1] “Father Vincent Ferrer & Mrs Anne Ferrer were the founders of Rural Development Trust (in 1969) and Accion Fraterna (in 1982” — Accion Fraterna Ecology Centre. Source
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