I.H. Karunawathi is a woman farmer from Pothuhara, Sri Lanka, who has been surviving through home gardening for many years now. She does all the work in her garden all by herself. Her family gets by with the income from selling the produce from the garden. She received funding from the ARISE-Farmers program through SANASA, the national implementing agency of ARISE-Farmers in Sri Lanka, to further boost her livelihood. The fund was used for crop production and irrigation, which she said were of great help to her livelihood.
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The Assuring Resiliency of Family Farmers amidst COVID-19 (ARISE-Farmers) aims to contribute to achieving the SDG goal of ending hunger and poverty by empowering federated farmer groups to meet the needs of their members as well as ensure the health and sufficient food supply during the COVID-19 pandemic and beyond. ARISE-Farmers builds on the coverage of the IFAD regional grant Asia Pacific Farmers Programme (APFP). The target group is the same as APFP with a specific focus on smallholder men and women farmers/producers needing production assistance for the immediate next cropping season within the lockdown or post lockdown.
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