With increasing number of rural youth joining the labour market, rural entrepreneurship is seen as an important source of job creation where youth can be gainfully employed. But...
Collective action, multiple benefits: A case of a social enterprise model
Farmers in Madhya Pradesh are improving crop productivity and increasing their incomes by creating social enterprises using ecologically sound and sustainable practices. The...
Rural Livelihoods – using value chains
Srikantha Shenoy T V “ We have some hopes now. We need not migrate to cities now for those two square meals. Five years ago we hardly used to get wages for 60 to 70 days in a...
Adding value to life
Robert Leo and Mathew john Indigenous communities in the Nilgiri Biosphere Reserve area have improved their livelihoods by appropriate technology use in farm practices and value...
Rural entreprenuership
Villages were self sufficient in getting most of their requirements. After the industrial development, gradually the cottage industries have started disappearing and now a...
From exclusion to empowerment – Women of the Siddi Community
Aga Khan Foundation Marginalised communities, such as Siddis in Gujarat, often accept entrenched poverty, deprivation and exclusion as a way of life. Development under such...
Krishi Vigyan Kendras – grassroot endeavours in dissemination of appropriate technology for rural poverty alleviation
India is endowed with vast potential resources. Some of the factors that helped us to make great strides in agricultural production were: Proper planning, bold agricultural...