In order to address the challenges of land degradation, climate change, loss of biodiversity, poor productivity in wadi project areas, food and nutrition security concerns and economic distress of farmers due to input-intensive mono-cropping and declining net returns, JIVA programme has been initiated – JIVA means "a living being or entity imbued with a life force" in Sanskrit - as an agro-ecological transformational approach leveraging the pre-existing social and natural capital in the watershed and wadi projects. The objective of the JIVA Program is to bring about behavioural change among participating farmers to shift their farming operations towards Natural farming and capacity building and intensive engagement with the farmers.
