Chennai Resilience CentreA brief presentation on the Chennai Urban Farming Initiative’s Mobile Vegetable Garden Kit Program and its current status.
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© PudiyadorEarly in 2020, when the lockdown in Chennai came into effect as a response to the COVID-19 pandemic, vulnerable communities across the city were the hardest hit. Adrienne Arsht – Rockefeller Foundation Resilience Centre came forward to fund food relief distribution to daily-wagers, women-led households, scheduled caste and tribal communities, and other vulnerable groups that two NGOs, Pudiyador and Information and Resource Centre for the Deprived Urban Communities (IRCDUC), were working with in Chennai.
Chennai Resilience CentreThis scoping study is undertaken to understand the viability of introducing an urban horticulture initiative in Perumbakkam, one of Chennai’s largest resettlement colonies located in neighboring Chengalpattu District. Learnings from the Perumbakkam case can be useful in assessing some of the common limitations as well as opportunities that other low-income neighbourhoods in Chennai are likely to present.
As Chennai Resilience Centre enters into the implementation phase of the city’s Resilience Strategy, it recognizes the immense potential of fostering a Green Livelihoods Program centred around urban horticulture/farming that will allow Chennai to directly address multiple Sustainable Development Goals.