Addressed by Indigenous & Frontier Technology Research Centre (IFTR) 

IFTR’s mission of advancing indigenous knowledge systems, frontier technologies, and inclusive innovation directly contributes to multiple United Nations Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs). Our work bridges traditional wisdom with modern science to enable self-reliance, equitable growth, and ecological sustainability.

• Promote livelihood creation through implementation of technologies in rural areas, promoting decentralized enterprises, and community-owned interventions
• Support income-generating models for farmers, and tribal communities

• Research and promotion of indigenous and improved seeds, traditional farming systems, and climate-resilient agriculture 
• Support food security through sustainable, locally adapted, doable, simple, agri-technologies

• Encourage eco-friendly, toxic free, technologies and traditional health practices
• Reduce environmental and occupational health risks in rural and informal sectors
• Create awareness among farmers, women, youth, and children on the need for good and nutritious food

• Supplementary education for school children
• Capacity building, skill development, hands-on training in indigenous and frontier technologies
• Knowledge dissemination through meetings, workshops, field labs, and community learning platforms

• Promote women-led enterprises in agriculture
• Encourage women’s participation in leadership

• Deployment of low-cost water purification, conservation, and sanitation technologies
• Community-participated water stewardship models

• Promotion of biogas, biomass, solar, and other decentralized renewable energy solutions
• Research on indigenous energy systems suitable for rural and remote regions

• Support rural entrepreneurship, startups, and MSMEs using
• Facilitate dignified, locally rooted employment opportunities

• Strengthen indigenous innovation ecosystems and appropriate technology development
• Enable rural and tribal innovation hubs and pilot-scale prototyping facilities

• Focus on inclusive development for marginalized, rural, and tribal communities
• Democratize and create access to technology and innovation

• Encourage decentralized, resilient systems for food, energy, water, and waste
• Support peri-urban and rural-urban linkages

• Promote sustainable production systems rooted in local resources
• Advocate circular economy and minimal-waste technologies

• Climate-resilient agriculture, renewable energy, and low-carbon technologies
• Indigenous adaptation strategies for climate variability

• Conservation of biodiversity, indigenous crops, landraces, heirlooms and ecosystems
• Restoration of degraded lands through nature-based solutions

• Collaborate with academia, industry, civil society, governments, and grassroots organizations
• Build multi-stakeholder partnerships for scalable impact

IFTR acts as a catalyst for Viksit Bharat 2047, aligning indigenous wisdom, frontier science, and SDGs to create inclusive, resilient, and sustainable development pathways.