Vision
Green Commandos for a Green World and a Greener North East — a future where young people lead the transformation toward ecological harmony and regenerative living.
Youth-led eco-social movement · Est. 2005
Climate Grief to Climate Action
Across Northeast India, young people are turning eco-anxiety into soil, seed and shade — rebuilding land through compassionate natural farming and agroecology. 5,000+ Green Commandos are already in the field.
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01 — Vision & Mission
Cultivating hope,harmony and healing
We build a movement that converts climate grief into climate action — through youth leadership, ecological wisdom, and farming that treats land as a living relationship.
Mission
A youth-led eco-social sustenance movement carrying North East India toward a climate-smart world, empowering communities through compassionate natural farming and agroecological practice.
The Green Commandos are not just cultivators of crops — they are cultivators of hope, harmony, and healing.
Three pillars of transformation
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Environmental Protection
Ecological restoration
- Restoring degraded land through food forests
- Preserving indigenous seed varieties
- Creating wildlife corridors
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Green Innovation
Agroecological solutions
- Bamboo biochar for soil regeneration
- Natural farming techniques
- Climate-smart agriculture
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Community Engagement
Youth leadership
- Training 5,000+ Green Commandos
- Reaching 200,000+ farmers
- Building rural enterprises
02 — Genesis
Twenty years,one root system
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2005
The Vision Born
Samir R. Bordoloi becomes India's first Plant Doctor, choosing to work with farmers on their own fields rather than from a desk.
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2005–10
Foundation Building
The SPREAD NE Food Forest takes root across 15 acres in Assam — a living laboratory for multi-storey, forest-mimicking agriculture.
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2010–15
Movement Growth
Food Forest Camping begins. Young people arrive as visitors and leave as practitioners; adoption spreads village to village.
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2015–20
Scaling Impact
The RAW · WAR · COMBAT curriculum is formalised. Partnership with ASRLM carries training to 150,000+ women farmers.
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2025
Formal Recognition
Two decades of field practice are registered as the Green Commandos Forum — a movement with a name, a mandate and a next generation.
03 — Training Pathway
The journey to becominga Green Commando
Three progressive levels. Each one asks more of you — and gives more back to the land.
Level 01
Reconnect & Adapt to Wild
A three-day immersive camp in a living food forest. No slides — soil. Participants sleep, cook, plant and harvest inside the system they're learning.
Key learning areas
- Seed-keeping and local variety identification
- Foundations of natural farming
- Designing a homestead food forest
- Climate-resilience skills for the household
Level 02
Work And Render
A year of mentoring for RAW graduates who have already delivered ten or more community trainings. The focus shifts from learning to proving.
Key learning areas
- Building a personal agroecological enterprise
- Running a live, visitable demonstration model
- Facilitation and community mobilisation
- Record-keeping, costing and farm economics
Level 03
Co-Creating Organic Movements
Two years of advanced mentoring for practitioners running an active live model — shaping eco-social agripreneurs who can carry a movement of their own.
Key learning areas
- Scaling an eco-social enterprise
- Training trainers and building cohorts
- Partnerships with schools, NGOs and government
- Movement leadership and public advocacy
The transformation journey
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Reconnect
Meet the land again, on its own terms.
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Practice
Grow a working model at home.
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Lead
Train your village, then your block.
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Transform
Turn practice into a movement.
04 — Impact
Numbers grownin real soil
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Green Commandos trained
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Farmers reached
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Women farmers empowered
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Blocks covered in North East India
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0Government schools
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1 lakh+Biochar practitioners
0Trees planted
Training Impact
Structured cohorts from three-day camps to two-year mentorships, producing practitioners who train others.
Community Reach
Village institutions, women's groups and schools carrying agroecology across 219 blocks.
Innovation Labs
Field-tested products — biochar, mycomix, seed balls — refined with farmers, not for them.
05 — Success Stories
What it looks likeon the ground
2011 – 2014
Farm Preneur Programme
Nutrition gardens introduced in 150+ government schools, weaving organic farming into entrepreneurship — improving what children eat and changing how they see farming as a future.
150+schools engaged
Women Farmers Empowerment
219 block coordinators trained as master trainers, strengthening food security and sustainable livelihoods for rural women across Assam.
150k+women reached
Orange Festival
Orange cultivation revived in Assam's Ampri Valley — a festival that pulled young people back into agriculture through culture, not lecture.
AmpriValley, Assam
Integrated Natural Farming Farm School
At Don Bosco Hijuguri, students who left formal education find a second route — farming and learning combined into a real livelihood pathway.
Livefarm school model
The Umswai Valley Story
Homestead food forests developed across Umswai Valley in partnership with GHE. Filmmaker Santanu Sen's Water Burial — shot here — won Best Film on Environment Conservation at the 67th National Film Awards, and the valley has since seen over 30,000 native trees planted through afforestation.
30,000+native trees planted
Innovative initiatives
- Community Wellness CentreBuilt in Kolongpur in 15 days from bamboo and thatch.
- Environmental FilmmakingSantanu Sen's Water Burial — Best Film on Environment Conservation, 67th National Film Awards.
- Prison Training ProgrammesRegenerative mission extended to Mokokchung District Jail, Nagaland — inmates trained in organic farming and vermicompost production for sustainable skill development.
Green Commando champions
Arjun Trivedi
Integrating agroecology into mainstream education.
Itisha Sarah
Environmental advocate; 100+ women employed through her enterprise.
Sikur Padma Paw
Farm school leader — and composer of the movement's anthem.
Migal Doley
Financial literacy trainer and founder of TREE.
06 — R&D Products
Fourteen innovations,219 blocks deep
Practical innovations in agroecology, developed by Farmer Samir Bordoloi and widely adopted across Northeast India — built on working farms, tested by farmers, and kept only if they earned their place.
Bamboo Biochar
Cone-pit & double-pit methods
Low-cost pyrolysis of bamboo waste into stable carbon that holds water and nutrients in soil for decades.
1 lakh+ practitioners
Food Forest Models
Multi-storey systems · GCFSALT
Forest-mimicking layers of canopy, shrub, herb and root — with a GCFSALT variant designed for jhum lands.
100+ live models
Bio-intensive Raised Beds
Bamboo wall protection
Narrow, deeply amended beds walled in bamboo to cut erosion, hold moisture and create a friendly microclimate.
ASRLM · NEN · GIZ SuATI
Heap Composting
Community-adapted system
Alternating green and dry biomass with manure and wood ash, sealed for moisture control — compost in about 60 days.
Standard in all GCF modules
Mycomix
Fungal-enriched compost
Compost, biochar and fungal inocula combined locally to speed decomposition and rebuild soil structure.
Nursery media & degraded soils
Seed Innovations
Seed balls & seed banks
Clay-and-compost seed balls for rapid re-vegetation, plus community seed banks that keep varieties in farmers' hands.
Mass community campaigns
Bari Unnayan Model
Homestead development system
A whole-homestead approach that turns the family bari into a productive, self-feeding system — introduced across every GIZ SuATI project model village in Assam.
219 blocks via ASRLM · all GIZ SuATI villages
Agroforestry-based IFS
Integrated Farming System
Trees, crops and livestock designed to work as one system, so a single piece of land yields food, fodder, fuel and income together instead of one crop at a time.
Adopted across Northeast India
INFFS Tinsukia Model
Integrated Natural Farming Farm School
The farm-school model running at Don Bosco Hijuguri, Tinsukia — combining natural farming with learning to open livelihood pathways for students out of formal education.
Live model · Tinsukia, Assam
Innovation ecosystem
Agro-Educational Tourism
Short courses, homestays and immersive farm camps at the Farm Learning Centre — alternative income for farmers, real skills for visitors.
Responsible Village Tourism
Village-led, low-impact packages combining homestead stays, food-forest trails and cultural exchange under local control.
Herbal Tea Enterprises
Bamboo leaf, roselle and mulberry processed into teas — small value-addition that puts cash in homesteads and women's groups.
Where it has taken root
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SPREAD NE Food Forest, Sonapur
Established as a working model of coexistence-based compassionate natural farming.
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101 Food Forests · West Karbi Anglong
Established across the district in partnership with GHE.
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Homestead Food Forests · Umswai Valley
Developed with GHE across the valley's homesteads.
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Bari Unnayan across GIZ SuATI villages
Introduced and practised in all GIZ SuATI project model villages of Assam.
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219 blocks of Assam through ASRLM
Bari Unnayan and agroecological practices carried across the state under the Assam State Rural Livelihood Mission's Organic Village Cluster Development Project.
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UN FAO GreenAg · Mizoram
Natural Resource Management practices — bamboo biochar, no-tillage beds, composting and bio-intensive raised beds — practised under the GreenAg project.
Adoption partners
ASRLM · 219 blocksNorth East Network · 4 districtsGIZ SuATI · 3 districts
FAO Green-Ag MizoramMichigan State University150+ Government SchoolsMultiple NGOs & Farmer Groups
ASRLM · 219 blocksNorth East Network · 4 districtsGIZ SuATI · 3 districts
FAO Green-Ag MizoramMichigan State University150+ Government SchoolsMultiple NGOs & Farmer Groups
0Major innovations
0Blocks covered
1L+Biochar practitioners
0Food forest models
07 — Our Team
Faces behindthe movement
Trainers, coordinators and community champions who carry the work into villages every week.
08 — Join Us
Bring the nextcommando forward
Whether you want to train, host a camp, partner with us or simply learn — start here. We reply to every message that reaches a real person.
- Farm Learning CentreSPREAD NE Food Forest, Assam, North East India
- Write to ushello@greencommandosforum.com
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