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Self organization- A framework

Graduate thesis project where a framework was designed to autonomously invest in rural areas called the FAIR proposal.

Framework For Autonomous Investments In Rural Areas (Fair)

Rural Regions In India

Land in 1950

Owned by a family of six 2 Adults 3 sons 1 daughter

Land in 1975

Owned by the mother. Split between 4 children :2 sons continue farming; 1 son migrates to the city; The Daughter is married off to someone outside the village

Land in 1985

1 son sells it to larger farmer/ corporation The daughter sees is as an asset that could be valuable someday. The sons get into a conflict and prevent water supply to the other leaving one son unable to continue farming in one part of the plot.

Land in 1995

Due to lack of care, the daughters plot becomes barren land. One son further splits his land his three children who make their own decisions with the land. The other son sells it the government due to debts and no productivity from farming.

Land in 2005

Value and produtivity diminished to

1/8th of its original size,

A return migrant buys the property and sets up his farmhouse.

Land in 2015

Value and produtivity diminished to 1/8th of its original size.A return migrant buys the property and sets up his farmhouse.Engages in organic farming and hires the third generation farmer to help with labour.

LAND OWNERSHIP - EXEMPLARY CASE

Property rights in India are defined in a way that on the death of farmer, the size of landholding becomes fragmented. Over time, the sub-divisions of landholding has led to people becoming landless. For a small-scale farmer for land is his only asset, this directly relates to untamed urbanization. Globally, this issue is handled by offering strategies such as land-pooling ,co-owning systems, but caste conflicts, inadequacies of local government to mobilize the entire community, I was told by many of survey respondents that such a strategy will not work in India.

BRIEF

Gratosoglio is a peripheral neighborhood now characterized with deteriorated social fabric and desolate urban spaces. After the mid-70’s economic crisis caused a sharp decline in the neighborhood’s vitality, as drugrelated crime and violence began to emerge. The brief was to define regenerative design ideas for the neighborhood.

CHALLENGE

Even though food is a societal requirement, the risks are entirely borne by the farmers in India. However, a lack of multi-stake holder initiative within the rural, or inability to see the potential within the rural has long affected the people’s trust in governments and policy implementation

GOALS

The vision was to develop a agro-based development model that taps into the many social processes and unwritten laws of the rural. The specific concern was to develop informal support systems without increasing the anxieties of the farmers and to devise a strategy that happens at the small but a scalable method across the nation.

UNIQUE SOLUTION

The DFID sustainable framework was adapted to induce, influence and dictate my contribution where the assets were analyzed and favored towards non-economic societal impact in the short term and dependable growth efficacy for the agricultural sector, in the long term. More concern was given to improve innovation within customary sectors and just transition, mandated within socially inclusive policies for rural areas

CONTRACT PROFILES

Primarily, the stakeholders were divided into seven groups to directly affect the scale, funding, barriers and the communities that can use the framework to dictate the livelihood strategies. The central cores being reverse migrants and customary farmers. The contents of the framework will begin by setting up a contract where the details of the farmland, living conditions, stables, energy production, water availability and revenue methods are discussed in detail before the contract is carried out. Under no circumstances the alliances can take on a hierarchical structure: the reverse migrants will be the enablers of access, growth and commerce and the farmers, the providers of knowledge, land and expertise.

STAGES OF IMPLEMENTATION:

The implementation was suggested in four categories where most lands that are engaged in chemicalized farming are converted to practice natural / organic farming. The second step comes in great part from the enabler where he works towards improving the access to a farm’s produce and farmer’s living conditions. The third step with a sustainable revenue generation model other than agriculture and lastly establishing a circular economy where the village is involved in a joint tax base, production and consumption sharing methodologies

ENTREPRENEURIAL-ISM VS ASSISTANTIAL- ISM

Traditionally, rural areas have been the focus of philanthropic investments. They are widely considered impoverished zones that need financial help, subsidies, skills training in cottage industries and communications and IT sectors. However, what this study urges is an alternative discourse on looking at new economies of scale within customary practices by exploring new waves of synergies in the rural.

Thein Manimegalai Sowrirajan

Architect / Regional Planner / Entrepreneur

in Milan

I love the countryside and its unique puzzle of nature, people, and challenges. My dream is to use my research in rural entrepreneurship, architectural background, and prefab construction experience to improve life in these places.

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