Local/ Community level

• Traditional healers and animal health workers network (informal network of healers and animal health workers who have apprenticed with healers and learnt healing practices from Anthra). Exist in Andhra Pradesh and Maharashtra in 6 districts. Initiated in 1997.

• Ecological farmers (men and women) network working on Food Sovereignty recognizing the holistic integrity of agriculture and livestock, farmers control over their seeds and farming, fighting Corporate control of Agriculture. This network is spread across 10 districts of Andhra Pradesh, and 2 districts in Maharashtra. Initiated in 2007.

• Pastoralist sanghams: These were initiated by Anthra in Chittoor and Medak districts of Andhra Pradesh and Satara district of Maharashtra since 2004. The Pastoral sanghams in Medak district have a current membership of 500 households and in Chittoor 250 households. The membership is increasing. The sanghams exist independent of Anthra, and pastoralists (both men and women) are exclusive members. They have their own criteria for membership, membership fee, aims and objectives etc. The sanghams work for the collective livelihood rights of pastoralists including access to grazing resources, forests, CPRs, fodder, water, health, marketing, education, citizenship.

• Dalit sanghams network: A fledgeling initiative, where Dalit activists trained by Anthra, are organizing Dalit women and men in Medak and Chittoor districts around agriculture, livestock, food sovereignity issues. Anthra is actively supporting these initiatives since 2006.

• Adivasi Womens Gottis network: Anthra along with several other organizations, supports the initiatives of Adivasi women across 7 districts in Andhra Pradesh, who are organizing around their food sovereignty and livelihood concerns Involvement since 1996.

• Grazing and Fodder Forum was initiated by Anthra and emerged in 2001 at the time when there was raging debates on around an extremely anti-people grazing policy brought out by the Forest department. The collective efforts of the forum were successful in a withdrawal of the policy, as also pushing the government to constitute a committee with members from AHD, Forest Department and Anthra/Grazing Forum to look into the issue and make recommendations.