Social Impact Assessment

Social Impact Assessment includes the processes of analysing, monitoring and managing the intended and unintended social consequences, both positive and negative, of planned interventions (policies, programs, plans, projects) and any social change processes invoked by those interventions. Its primary purpose is to bring about a more sustainable and equitable biophysical and human environment.
                                                                                SIA is much more than the prediction step within an environmental assessment framework. Social impacts are much broader than the limited issues often considered in EIAs (such as demographic changes, job issues, financial security, and impacts on family life). A limited view of SIA creates demarcation problems about what are the social impacts to be identified by SIA, versus what is considered by related fields such as health impact assessment, cultural impact assessment, heritage impact assessment, aesthetic impact assessment, or gender impact assessment. The SIA community of practitioners considers that all issues that affect people, directly or indirectly, are pertinent to social impact assessment.

Sustainable Agriculture :

Our agriculture program comprises of enhancing productivity of field crops to enhance food security, diversification of into less water intensive crops to reduce risk and promoting cultivation of vegetable for cash income. The productivity of the traditional farming system in these regions is very low. We have also been promoting System of Rice Intensification, Packages of Practices of agriculture crops and low cost farming system with higher productivity. As production increases, producers were linked to wholesalers and the agreement is working satisfactorily at the present scale of operation. We plan to promote producers organization to ensure fair prices and reliable access to inputs and services.