Seed To Sprout

  Ten Forest Crusaders Of India Who Created Man-Made Forests & Sanctuaries, One Sapling At A Time Sandeep Saxena – Founder, Aranyaani In Madhya Pradesh, IIT-IIM alumnus Sandeep Saxena seems to have found an ancient solution to thwart an impending agricultural crisis – by planting over 6000 acres of ‘food forests’. “We are basically structuring a proper forest, but a sizeable part of it can come in use for human consumption, but only up to a certain limit that does not affect the ecological balance,” he shares with  Efforts For Good . His organisation Aranyaani is raising ‘food forests’ in 2500 acres of fallow lands in the central state. Aranyaani is also assisting farmers to manage such food forests on their own landholdings, amounting to another 4000 acres approximately. Vishweshwar Dutt Saklani (Tree Man) Uttarakhand’s Vishweshwar Dutt Saklani was a staunch conservationist, who started planting trees when he was just eight years old and continued the practice diligently ...