Year: 2025
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Sankalp Bharat 2025
Last Friday, I moderated the opening plenary of the Sankalp Bharat 2025 to explore the next phase of transformation of Indian agriculture. We didn’t just discuss problems but mapped the big shifts required for Indian agriculture over the next decade. Here are four things we all agreed…
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RESTORE 2025
The Economics of Restoration is complicated. And, the context specific nature of interventions make it even more difficult to have commercial capital flow in these interventions for scale. But restoration of our land and food system is critical and cannot…
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Beyond Debt: How the USD 125 Billion Tropical Fund Redefines Climate Finance for Forest Conservation
Our forests are essential for maintaining Earth’s climate balance, as they absorb around 16 billion metric tonnes of CO₂ annually (gross removals) and store over 860 billion metric tonnes of carbon. They also provide crucial ecosystem services, supporting the water,…
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From food security to global leadership
Indian AgTech have huge potential to not only transform Indian agriculture but can also make India a leader in solving the global agriculture and food security challenge. An article that I wrote for Business India.. https://businessindia.co/magazine/guest-column/from-food-security-to-global-leadership
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Clean Cooking and Carbon Markets
The one thematic area that has remained consistent throughout my professional journey is access to clean cooking energy. What started as exploring BoP markets for energy access in 2008 continues even today—as we still have more than 2.1 billion people…