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The Institution Building Challenge: National Workshop on FPOs

  About the workshop

 

This national workshop focused on institution building challenges of Farmer Producer Organisations (FPOs) is a continuation of IRMA’s efforts in three areas: building knowledge on contemporary FPOs, building capacities, and co-creating an enabling ecosystem. 

The workshop was jointly supported by projects to IRMA from Ford Foundation ("Living Farm Incomes: Inequality, Sustainability and Civic Action in India") and from the Department of Science and Technology (DST) (under the project “Creating a Social Entrepreneurial Ecosystem through the Incubator”)

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Workshop Resources

Spread over a day and six sessions with over 10 different speakers, the national workshop saw a rich set of discussions on what was required to strengthen farmer collectives in terms of training, institution building, and policies. This section provides a glimpse into the speaker profiles and the ideas that they shared during the workshop. 

Inaugural session

Prof. Shambu Prasad

Professor, IRMA
Coordinator- 'Living Farm Incomes' project

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FWWB and Institution Building
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Nilanjan Chaudhury

FWWB

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Himanshu Vaghela

FWWB

Learning Together: One year of the FPO Manual
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Parthasarathy T

Welthungerhilfe

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Saikrishna N

NSFI

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Institution Building: Lessons from other states

Why institution building is key for credit?

Sridhar Easwaran

Sammunati

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Alternate models of IB: Learning from SHGs and MACS in Telangana and AP

C S Reddy

APMAS

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Markets and Institutions: Karnataka and the RRAN agenda

Prateek Abraham

IIHD,RRAN

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FPO Incubation Centre: Yuvamitra's experience

Hiren Bohkhatariya

Yuva Mitra

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Institution Building of FPOs in Gujarat

Institutional challenges in Federated FPOs

Kuldeep Solanki

Gujpro

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Institutional lessons from Krushidhan

Sachin Oza

DSC Foundation

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Lessons in managing diversity: AKRSP

Naveen Patidar

AKRSP(I)

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Thursday Academic Seminar Series (TASS)

Institutional challenges in Federated FPOs

Kavitha Kuruganti

ASHA

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Agricultural market reform in India

Sudha Narayanan

IGIFDR

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Remembering Ms.Vijayalakshmi Das

Vijayalakshmi Das, who founded Friends of Women's World Banking (FWWB) and was considered the mother of microfinance in India,

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C S Reddy

APMAS

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Nilanjan Chaudhury

Himanshu Vaghela

FWWB

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Sachin Oza

DSC Foundation

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Tara Nair

GIDR

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Sridhar Easwaran

Sammunati

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