Community-managed Method

How APCNF consistently succeeds at scaling across India & beyond.

Farmer-Coaches Drive Scaling

Key to APCNF success is the recognition that most effective learning is farmer to farmer.

Best practicing farmers and Community resource persons (CRPs) are engaged to teach Natural Farming to others, supporting them to learn the method during the important years of transition.

The method:

  • Teach by doing
  • Learn by doing
  • Collective working to learn from each other in community support.
 

Community Method Scales Successfully

Around India, 7,550 village self-help group federations, powered by women, support the implementation and scaling of Natural Farming.

The federations include 202,000 Self-help groups, with 1,880,000 women driving change.

Community Self-Help Group are Focused on the Following Principles:

  • Programme Management + Transparency
  • Collective Action
  • Peer Learning
  • Farming Plans + Consumption Plans
  • Inclusive of Poorest Community Members

Scaling Natural Farming Globally​

Due to its broadly documented success, more than50 countries have expressed interest in adapting APCNF methods. To address this demand, Natural Farming Global was founded by APCNF’s RySS leaders and NOW Partners Foundation.

Natural Farming Global partners with local organizations, already operating at scale, to co-create respectfully adapted, place-based pilots of APCNF methods.