Farming Futures

Reimagining Producer Organisations in India

C. Shambu Prasad, Ajit Kanitkar, Deborah Dutta, C. Shambu Prasad, Ajit Kanitkar, Deborah Dutta

• Publisher: Routledge India
• Year: 2023
• ISBN:
  9781000890587
• Edition: 1
• Topic: Negocios y empresa
• Subtopic: Agronegocios

This book studies the management challenges and possibilities in sustaining farmer producer organisations (FPOs). It goes beyond the conventional metrics of cost-benefit analysis by drawing on 15 case studies of diverse FPOs spread across India to fill a significant knowledge-practice gap in the domain of producer collectives. The book explores issues of ownership and governance, studies the empirical basis for policy decisions on FPOs, and provides actionable insights and knowledge, keeping in mind the complexity of the institutional design of an FPO. It also discusses the envisioned role of civil society organisations in supporting FPOs and looks at the kind of institutional innovations that are needed to create a cohesive ecosystem for FPOs.

A unique collaborative project jointly authored by academics and development practitioners, the book will be of use to students and researchers of agricultural economics, environment and business, agricultural development, environmental economics, rural studies, entrepreneurship, and South Asian studies. It will also be of interest to development professionals, civil society organisations, and policymakers.

Table of contents

• Cover
• Half Title
• Title
• Copyright
• Contents
• List of Figures
• List of Tables
• List of Contributors
• Foreword
• Acknowledgements
• List of Abbreviations
• 1 Producer organisations as 21st-century farmer institutions
• 2 Dynamics of incubating a multi-community, multi-commodity, multi-location FPO: the case of Krushidhan Producer Company in Gujarat
• 3 Jeevika Women Agri Producer Company Limited: the timid rise of an all-women state-promoted FPC in an “aspirational” district of Bihar
• 4 Leveraging institutional arrangements in accessing markets: the case of Bhangar Vegetable Producer Company Ltd
• 5 Connecting tribal women to markets through promotion of sustainable agriculture: the case of Ram Rahim Pragati Producer Company Ltd
• 6 Sustaining value chains of non-timber forest produce: the Mahanadi Producer Company in Chhattisgarh
• 7 Markets that empower women farmers’ collectives
• 8 Krishi Bagwani Swawlambi Sahakari Samiti Limited: adaptive management and convergence in an all-women tribal collective
• 9 Is the Amul model possible in pulses? The case of Hasnabad Farmers Services Producer Company Limited
• 10 Traditional tribal goat-rearer women taking the FPC way: the case of Pandhana PashuPalak Producer Company Limited, Madhya Pradesh
• 11 Market-first approach of a community institution: the case of Kazhani Farmer Producer Company in Tamil Nadu
• 12 Bridging smallholder fruit farmers and consumers: the case of Navyug Kisan Producer Company Ltd
• 13 Sustaining livelihoods and securing sovereignty: tracing the journey of Desi Seed Producer Company Limited, Mysore, Karnataka
• 14 Federating for rapid (maha) growth: the MAHA Farmers Producer Company in Maharashtra
• 15 Seeding an FPO movement: the Madhya Bharat Consortium in Central India
• 16 From civil society origins to an independent marketing federation of farmer producer organisations: the case of Gujpro Agri-business Consortium
• 17 Reimagining producer organisations in India
• Index