Appropriate Technology India is working to support local communities secure economic and managerial control over their natural resources, by creating economic alternatives which provide communities incentive to work towards long-term conservation. What started as a biodiversity conservation project in 1994 with a mandate to develop an enterprise based conservation model is today a programme that addresses critical needs of conservation by providing local communities alternatives to subsistence agriculture, the prime reason (as is widely accepted) for non-sustainable extraction of biological resources.

The World Food Programme and the International Fund for Agricultural Development has conducted study on our succesful intervention in enhancing the livelihoods of the poor.

The Ford Foundation sanctions institutional support grant to A T India for three years.