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Stop MNREGA for ONE year and let's kickoff Second Green Revolution

Vishy KurugantiMarch 12, 20123 mins

Pic: courtesy oecotextiles.wordpress.com “Stop MNREGA for one year and let’s kickoff Second Green Revolution with the corresponding budget of Rs. 40,000 crores!” Let me quickly disenchant you that a…

Hippocratic Oath for Social Entrepreneurs

Vishy KurugantiFebruary 24, 20122 mins

Hippocrates (460-370 BC) Pic: courtesy osmanian.com On the final day of the Acara Summer Institute 2011, after the teams had made their final presentations, this appeal from Dr. Trilochan Sastry…

Arming farmers with timely information – what it really means

Vishy KurugantiFebruary 17, 20122 mins

Pic: courtesy agricorner.com Reuters Market Light (RML). ITC eChoupal. Ekgaon Technologies. IKSL. TCS mKrishi. These are some of the leading social enterprise initiatives from established companies or…

Differences between CSR and CSV (Creating Shared Value)

Vishy KurugantiFebruary 16, 20121 mins

Earlier this week, I wrote an overview post on Creating Shared Value. In the foreword, I loosely described the Shared Value concept as ‘CSR on steroids’. As though anticipating such loose…

Key nuggets from Bill Gates' Annual Letter 2012 – Innovation in Agriculture

Vishy KurugantiFebruary 08, 20123 mins

If you have time, you really should read the complete text of the 2012 Annual Letter from Bill Gates. But I know you live in a multi-screen world with thousands of tweets, status updates, and vids…

Psychology of Savings – How the Poor Save to Buy Fertilizer

Vishy KurugantiOctober 21, 20114 mins

In chapter 8 (Saving Brick by Brick) of Poor Economics, Banerjee and Duflo delve into the subject of savings – the psychology behind why a majority of the poor find it incredibly hard to save and how…

An agricultural extension innovation going viral: Digital Green

Vishy KurugantiSeptember 28, 20114 mins

Rikin Gandhi (Founder & CEO, Digital Green) [Editor’s Note: Early this week, I had an engrossing phone conversation with Rikin Gandhi (CEO of agricultural extension pioneer Digital Green). Born and…

ITC's e-Choupal model to increase farmer revenue and its own bottom-line

Vishy KurugantiSeptember 20, 20114 mins

[Editor’s Note: Last month, I met with Sivakumar Surampudi, a 22 year ITC veteran, architect of e-Choupal, and head of their Agro Business Division (ABD) at his office in Hyderabad. This post is based…

FarmsNFarmers – a full-service approach to maximizing farmers profits

Vishy KurugantiSeptember 05, 20113 mins

Farms n Farmers co-founders: Shashank Kumar (left) and Manish Kumar (right) [Editor’s Note: A few weeks ago, I had an engaging conversation with Shashank Kumar, co-founder of Farms N Farmers, an end…

Establishing commodity cooperatives – role of promoting organizations

Vishy KurugantiAugust 25, 20113 mins

[Editor’s Note: This is the final part of a 7-part series on commodity cooperatives in drought prone regions, originally authored as a pre-published paper by Dr. Trilochan Sastry (Academic Dean, IIM…

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