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List of Figures List of Tables
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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