Become an ACRUAAccrue Circle Resilience Units Actively to secure the future
How Resilience Solutions deliver CRUs
Resilience Solutions are proven resilience outcome delivery models that have been codified for their Circle(s) to deliver a mix of human capital & natural resource improvements, assuredly and at scale
We’ve started with curating Resilience Solutions that deliver a mix of water, carbon and @risk livelihood outcomes, within one or more ACRUA 2030 Circles
CURATING SOLUTIONS
Our Solutions are relevant based on the Circles that are being targeted. We’ve curated and codified at least 3 solutions for each Circle – that can deliver resilience assuredly, at scale, and at a fractional cost
RWB: Rejuvenation of Waterbodies
This is a remarkable solution that has been proven in more than 90% of our circles. It rejuvenates nature based waterbodies to increase water capture capacity, reduce farm water and chemical usage and increase farm yield and income
SSR: Springshed Restoration
Another remarkable solution, this is the twin sister of RWB for above sea level, underground waterbodies. It multiplies their monsoon recharge while stretching their valuable discharge to the lean water season.
LWS: Landmark Waterbody Systems
A powerful extension of RWB and SSR, LWS is defined as achieving an ambitious CRU goal of $150K or more from the rejuvenated waterbody system along with setting up a Resilience Committee that will sustain and extend it.
MFF: Micro-Food Forests
Fallow land – a huge carbon sink and the bane of farmers is a high 40% of India’s farmland. MFF converts such land into income generating food forests. Several variants exist. We’re most excited by those that empower women
STS: Sett to Sapling
This solution innovation addresses sugarcane – one of India’s largest water consumption crops. It shifts farmers to adopting saplings, that increases yield, while saving water by requiring 15%-20% fewer flood irrigation cycles (as the saplings are grown in nursery drip conditions)
DIA: Drip Irrigation Augmentation
Drip Irrigation is a powerful innovation that applies water scientifically to benefit water, carbon and yield. To ensure its done well, we’ve focused on augmentation of drip to communities already engaged with another solution in our circles
FDP: Flood Discharge Pits
Many of our circles are subject to destructive floods. The FDP innovation – proven in various forms – are designed to quickly discharge these floods into the ground, and reduce flood losses to crops or valuables
UDF: Urban Dense Forests
Miyawaki is the most popular form of this fantastic solution UDF innovation. It has great potential for small distributed plots – e.g., within factories, schools, government facilities and more.
FMC: Farm to Market Connect
This innovation focuses on the result – connecting farmer groups to their markets; versus the means – setting up collectives or otherwise. Several powerful innovations have emerged that have achieved proven results via FMC
CDW: Community Drinking Water
This innovation leverages proven technologies to treat qualified groundwater that can achieve drinking water quality via government approved natural filtration systems. To begin with it is being added to circles where solutions have improved water availability