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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”)
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.
Nilanjan Chaudhury
FWWB
Himanshu Vaghela
FWWB
Parthasarathy T
Welthungerhilfe
Saikrishna N
NSFI
Why institution building is key for credit?
Sridhar Easwaran
Sammunati
Alternate models of IB: Learning from SHGs and MACS in Telangana and AP
C S Reddy
APMAS
Markets and Institutions: Karnataka and the RRAN agenda
Prateek Abraham
IIHD,RRAN
FPO Incubation Centre: Yuvamitra's experience
Hiren Bohkhatariya
Yuva Mitra
