Our Focus
Food & Nutrition Sovereignty
DRYLAND
Agro-Biodiversity
Gender & Social Justice
Community Media
Women’s Market
About Us
Deccan Development Society (DDS), initiated in 1983, is a grassroots organization working with nearly 5000 dalit and indigenous small women farmer sanghams (village level voluntary associations) in Zaheerabad region of Telangana, India. It strives for just and sustainable development and to assert sanghams’ autonomy in multiple spheres like food, nutrition, seeds, market, media etc. DDS promotes and works to revive traditional knowledge in farming and seeds; demonstrates its efficacy through wide experimentation and advocates for the inclusion of this knowledge in the public food policy systems.
DDS IN NUMBERS
Sanghams
SANGHAM MEMBERS
FAMILIES IMPACTED
LANDRACES CONSERVED
AWARDS
ALLIANCES
LATEST UPDATES
Sangham Women showcase seed diversity at Seed Festival commemorating International Seed Day.
On 29th April 2025, 62 seed keepers from 31 village sangams came together to display 90+ seed varieties that included monsoon crops, winter crops and vegetables. Most of these crop varieties included local landraces of millets, pulses, oilseeds and...
Sangam Women celebrate International Women’s Day!
Over 150 sangam women from 40 villages gathered at Zahirabad to celebrate the International Women’s Day in Zahirabad and DDS-KVK at Didigi village. The women first rallied with songs and chants on women’s rights and agriculture from Canara Bank to...
25th Mobile Biodiversity Festival wraps up with grand concluding ceremony
Deccan Development Society wrapped up the 25th edition of its iconic ‘Mobile Biodiversity Festival’ at 11th February 2025 at Pachasaale Campus in Machnoor Village, Jharasangam mandal with a grand concluding ceremony. Sri Ramulu Nayak, Former MLC...
ACCOLADES & AWARDS
Equator Prize
Nari shakti puraskar
