Deccan Development Society
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- Headquarters
- Zaheerabad, Sangareddy, Telangana
- Founded
- 1983
- Registration type
- Registered society
- Registered
- 1983
- Reach
- 1 state
What they do
Deccan Development Society is a grassroots society working with roughly 5,000 Dalit and other marginalised women farmers organised into village-level sanghams in the Zaheerabad region of Telangana. It promotes rainfed, biodiverse millet farming, community grain banks and seed funds, and links farmer collectives to local markets for food security. It also runs community health, nutrition and alternate-education programmes, and its dryland millet work won the UNDP Equator Prize in 2019. The society's administrative office is in Begumpet, Hyderabad, with its field operations centred on Zaheerabad in Sangareddy district (formerly part of Medak district).
Where they work
Telangana: Zaheerabad, Hyderabad, Sangareddy
People
- Divya VeluguriExecutive Director
- P.V. SatheeshFounderdeceased, 1983-2023
Links
Where these facts come from
- ddsindia.org/about-us
- ddsindia.org/our-team
- en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Deccan_Development_Society
- equatorinitiative.org/2019/07/30/deccan-development-society
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