Farming Futures

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List of Contributors

Foreword

Acknowledgements

List of Abbreviations

1 Producer organisations as 21st-century farmer institutions

C. SHAMBU PRASAD, AJIT KANITKAR, AND DEBORAH DUTTA

2 Dynamics of incubating a multi-community, multi-commodity, multi-location FPO: the case of Krushidhan Producer Company in Gujarat

ASTAD PASTAKIA AND SACHIN OZA

3 Jeevika Women Agri Producer Company Limited: the timid rise of an all-women state-promoted FPC in an "aspirational" district of Bihar

SUDHA NARAYANAN, MILEE PARMAR, AND RITESH PANDEY

4 Leveraging institutional arrangements in accessing markets: the case of Bhangar Vegetable Producer Company Ltd

DEBORAH DUTTA AND SUDIPTO SAHA

5 Connecting tribal women to markets through promotion of sustainable agriculture: the case of Ram Rahim Pragati Producer Company Ltd

ABHISHEK SAXENA, RAJAT TOMAR, AND ANIMESH MONDAL

6 Sustaining value chains of non-timber forest produce: the Mahanadi Producer Company in Chhattisgarh

NIRAJ U. JOSHI AND NIKHILA SHASTRY

7 Markets that empower women farmers' collectives

VAIBHAV BHAMORIYA AND ANITA PAUL

8 Krishi Bagwani Swawlambi Sahakari Samiti Limited: adaptive management and convergence in an all-women tribal collective

GAUTAM PRATEEK, PRANAMESH KAR, AND DEBANJAN GHATAK

9 Is the Amul model possible in pulses? The case of Hasnabad Farmers Services Producer Company Limited

AJIT KANITKAR AND C. SHAMBU PRASAD

10 Traditional tribal goat-rearer women taking the FPC way: the case of Pandhana PashuPalak Producer Company Limited, Madhya Pradesh

SHILPA VASAVADA AND NAVEEN PATIDAR

11 Market-first approach of a community institution: the case of Kazhani Farmer Producer Company in Tamil Nadu

PARTHASARATHY T., PALLAVI G. L., AND BALAKRISHNAN S.

12 Bridging smallholder fruit farmers and consumers: the case of Navyug Kisan Producer Company Ltd

GOURI KRISHNA AND RAJESH VERMA

13 Sustaining livelihoods and securing sovereignty: tracing the journey of Desi Seed Producer Company Limited, Mysore, Karnataka

TARA NAIR AND HAREESH BELAWADI

14 Federating for rapid (maha) growth: the MAHA Farmers Producer Company in Maharashtra

AJIT KANITKAR

15 Seeding an FPO movement: the Madhya Bharat Consortium in Central India

C. SHAMBU PRASAD AND ABHISHEK SAXENA

16 From civil society origins to an independent marketing federation of farmer producer organisations: the case of Gujpro Agri-business Consortium

SACHIN OZA AND ABHISHEK SAXENA

17 Reimagining producer organisations in India

C. SHAMBU PRASAD, AJIT KANITKAR, AND DEBORAH DUTTA

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