Centre for Ecology & Rural Development

The Centre of Ecology & Rural Development (CERD) is an Indian organisation that is part of the Pondicherry Science Forum. It was formed to take up interventions in Health, Sanitation, Natural Resource Management, Energy, Watershed Management and Information Communication Technology.

CERD was set up in 1994 by the Pondicherry Science Forum and Tamil Nadu Science Forum to advance science and technology-based development initiatives improving rural livelihoods. Earlier works included interventions in sericulture, vegetable leather tanning, and fish aggregation devices.

CERD has a field station at Bahoor called the Kalanjiyam (granary in Tamil) that acts as a hub of agriculture and technology options for the surrounding area.

CERD has a full-time structure with a team of scientists working on areas including women's technology, science communication, continuing education, participatory irrigation management through local democratic people's institutions, women's microcredit networks etc.

The latest projects include the AICP Project on BIOFARM, a watershed development project in Sedappatti Block of Madurai funded by NABARD, and the Tank Rehabilitation Project-Pondicherry.

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