Ashoka Fellow seit 2023   |   India

Raghunathan Narayanan

Vrutti

Vrutti, Livelihood Impact Partners

2004 - 2023
https://vruttiimpactcatalysts.org/

Other Organizations and Projects

Swasti Health Catalyst

2004 - 2023
https://swasti.org/

Catalyst Management Services Pvt. Ltd.

1994 - 2023
https://solvists.org/

Genetic Resources Ecology Energy Nutrition Foundation (GREEN Foundation)

2016 - 2023
https://greenfoundation.in/
This description of Raghunathan Narayanan's work was prepared when Raghunathan Narayanan was elected to the Ashoka Fellowship in 2023.

Einführung

Raghunathan shifts the approach to supporting small farmers from technical solutions that focus on production targets, to an approach that focuses on maximizing farmers’ net income - involving other small farmers from the community in this process and coming up with value added products andMehr erfahren

Die neue Idee

Raghunathan (Raghu) has devised an approach to improve the self-sufficiency of India’s large farmer base, by shifting the self-belief and role of a farmer into someone who is an entrepreneur. By enabling individual or small groups of farmers to focus on specialization of a product or service at aMehr erfahren

Das Problem

Small and marginal farmers (with less than two hectares of land) number 126 million people and account for 86.2% of all farmers in India but own just 47.3% of the crop area, according to the 10th Agriculture Census in 2015-16. These 126 million farmers together owned about 74.4 million hectares ofMehr erfahren

Die Strategie

In 1994, Catalyst Management Services (CMS) was started by Raghunathan and his co-founder, Shiv. CMS started as a consulting organization to bring professional management support to development organizations and was involved in various projects like mapping ROI on a village development project,Mehr erfahren

Die Person

Raghunathan, born in the district of Pudukkottai in Tamil Nadu, has been inspired by his father and grandmother who always opened their doors to anyone in need. Having a house on the main road and close to the ‘weekly market,’ Raghunathan’s family opened their doors to the many people who visitedMehr erfahren