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Lessons from Practice

Challenges in Scaling-up Actions of an NGO: Lessons from Kheti Virasat Mission

  • December 18, 2020

The organization receives funding from individual donors from India and abroad (non-resident Indians). Though `giving’ for charity, altruistic or social purposes is catching up among Indians, this is not enough for an adequate amount of resources flowing towards social purposes. Though many middle-class Indians can afford to provide some money towards this, they are yet to see the importance of doing so. There is a lot more money flowing towards religious purposes and festivals than for social purposes.
Notes on Strategy

Contract Farming and Farmers’ Empowerment & Protection Bill 2020

  • December 4, 2020

It is important to note here that the parliamentarians have failed to identify and highlight the potential implications of these bills and to redress their many limitations. While the bills have received presidential assent and are notified in the gazette on 27 September 2020, the actual effects of these ordinances can only be seen after the coming Kharif harvest.

Lessons from Practice

Promoting Organic Farming: Lessons from Kheti Virasat Mission, Punjab

  • November 12, 2020

Will the presence of a set of successful organic farmers in Punjab, and the general perception of the safety of organic food products, encourage the majority of farmers in the state to move away from agriculture which uses chemical inputs excessively? Such a movement is needed if the negative impact on soil, water and other dimensions of the natural environment is to be reduced.

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