Climate Smart Sustainable Sugarcane Production Project
ONGOING
Location: Nellikuppam & Pugulur district, Tamil Nadu
Focus: Driving behavioural change among smallholder farmers to adopt climate-smart sugarcane practices.
Impact Numbers: 1,000 farmers
Climate Change
The Problem
Climate stress doesn't stop at the farm gate. For a herder in Ladakh, it's a winter at -30°C lit by kerosene because the grid never reached above 12,000 feet. For a small trader in an urban slum cluster, it's a heatwave that turns a tin-roofed shop into an oven, or a power cut that spoils the day's stock. For a smallholder farmer, it's a monsoon that no longer arrives on schedule, deciding in a single season whether a year's income holds or collapses. Across rural and urban India alike, the households contributing least to this crisis have the fewest resources to adapt.
The Solution
At ActImpact, we integrate climate action into every stage of what we design, for rural and urban communities alike, combining climate-smart agriculture, renewable energy, sustainable natural resource management, green enterprises, circular-economy practices, and community-led adaptation, rather than treating environment and livelihood as separate goals. As India works toward Viksit Bharat, we help make farms, small businesses, homes, and schools climate-resilient from the start, rather than retrofitted later at greater cost. We're extending this same approach (green skills, resource-efficient enterprise, resilient infrastructure) to the urban slum communities where our livelihood work already runs.
Our Projects
Outreach Activities for Agrivoltaics
- Location: 8 states
- Focus: Introducing agrivoltaics to boost sustainable farming, optimize land use & advance India's clean-energy transition.
- Impact Numbers: 50 farmer workshops (2,000 farmers); 5 workshops for 250 agriculture & renewable-energy students; 2 stakeholder workshops for 100 financial institutions & RE developers
100 Awareness Raising Workshops on AgriPV with Farmers across India
- Location: Pan India
- Focus: Conducted awareness workshops with 100 KVKs on Government of India's PM-KUSUM Component A.
- Impact Numbers: 100 workshops reaching 4,000 farmers across India
ShareOn: Strengthening Civil Society Through Digital & Financial Inclusion (NSFI, lead partner)
- Location: Pan India
- Focus: Strengthens civil society via a commission-free fundraising platform and CSO capacity building in resource mobilization, digital fundraising & volunteer management.
- Impact Numbers: 60+ CSOs (18 states) built digital fundraising capacity; ₹54+ crore mobilized; 20+ social enterprises launched
Nav Udaan: Digital Financial Literacy & Climate Smart Agriculture
- Location: Haryana & Rajasthan
- Focus: Building awareness among small and marginal farmers, including women, through training in digital banking, financial literacy and climate-smart agriculture.
- Impact Numbers: 10,859 farmers trained through 317 training programmes; 60% adoption of mobile banking; 90% uptake of improved farm practices
Clean Energy Access for Remote Himalayan Villages
- Location: Leh district, Ladakh
- Focus: Providing clean, reliable energy to remote off-grid villages through DC solar grids, replacing kerosene lighting and building community ownership.
- Impact Numbers: 1,149 people (419 direct, 730 indirect); 31 DC solar grids installed; 2,500 litres of kerosene and 6.5 tonnes of CO₂ avoided a year
Solar Libraries: Clean Energy Access Through Schools
- Location: Rajasthan and Uttar Pradesh (rural, off-grid and partial-grid schools)
- Focus: Clean energy access for school students through a solar light library model and solar-powered learning spaces.
- Impact Numbers: 750 students (60% girls); 40 solar lights per school; 17 classrooms and one playground electrified
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