Nutrition Garden:    It was logistically and financially difficult to deliver food items to the remote areas of Sundarbans on a regular basis. So SAI executed the idea of a ‘nutrition garden’. A ‘nutrition garden’ is an idea where the target beneficiaries are trained, over a period of a year or a year and a half, to develop their own source of nutrition. They can be trained to grow vegetables and grains according to their nutritional needs and suited to the season, preserving the seeds for the next season and use fertilizers etc. in the small pieces of lands attached to their dwellings.
Under ‘nutrition garden’, the seeds for the first season of farming is distributed by SAI. In the subsequent seasons the beneficiaries can use the seeds preserved from the first season and also can pay back some of it to SAI so that SAI can distribute those to newer beneficiaries bringing them under the ambit of ‘nutrition garden’.  
Animal Breeding:     Under the Saksham & Save tiger affected families in Sundarbans ( STAFS )  initiative SAI is also training the target beneficiaries in breeding animals like chickens, ducks goats & fishes .  The eggs and milk from the animals cater to the nutritional need of the beneficiaries. Apart from this, when the animals breed, the families can earn a cash amount every time by selling them. This amounts to earning of about Rs.4000 – Rs.5000 for a goat. This cash flow can support the families in their agricultural endeavors.   
Under the ‘animal breeding’ initiative, the beneficiaries of the animal breeding initiative are liable to return a small number of the newly raised animals to SAI. This enables SAI to distribute animals to a fresh batch of beneficiaries. Beside that SAI introduced fish cultivation program in Sundarbans.
In May 2021 cyclone Yaas lashed on coastal areas causing people of Sundarbans to suffer heavily. Consequently, all sweet water ponds were flooded with saline water resulting in the fish cultivation in ponds being totally damaged leading to people losing their livelihoods. SAI   
took the challenge of flushing out the entire water in ponds by pumping in Kumirmari Island of Sundarban in the month of June. Subsequently SAI also provided financial assistance for fish cultivation in these ponds refilled with fresh rainwater  during monsoon. In this way SAI extended help for survival of marginalised families in the area.